Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.

fadir and thi graunt fadir and thi wijf for to lyue and dwelle in her sepulcris, or schal y bere thee an hond that thou trowist Artur and Iulius Cesar and Hector to be quyk in thi clooth, or that thou were double in thin so reuling of speche? Y trowe thou woldist seie y were vncurteis, or ellis vnwijs and folisch, if y schulde beere thee so an honde, if it likid thee forto so speke. And, if this be trewe, it folewith that as weel thou art vncurteis, or ellis thou art to be ex|cusid of vncurtesie bi thi greet folie and madnes, if thou bere me an hond that al the world ful of clerkis and of othere lay men weenen summe ymagis to be God, and summe ymages to be quyke Seintis; or that thei ben double and gileful, if thei clepen [clepe, MS. (first hand).] an ymage of God bi the name of God, and an ymage of a Seint bi the name of a Seint. But (for more clereli this same answere to be vndirstonde) it is to wite, that if figuratijf spechis weren not allowid to be had in vce, that the ymage or the likenes of a thing mai be clepid bi the name of the thing of which he is ymage and likenes, and that the parti of a thing mai be clepid vnder and bi the name of his hool, as that men seien thei han lyued xl. wynteris, meenyng therbi that thei han lyued fourti ȝeeris, certis thi chalenge myȝte weel procede and haue his entent; but aȝenward it is so that such figuratijf and vn|propre speche, forto clepe the ymage of a thing bi and vndir the name of the thing [of thing, MS. (first hand).] of which he is ymage, hath be in famose vce and hath be allowid bothe of Holi Scripture and of alle peplis. And ther|fore, thouȝ men in such woned figuratijf speche seie, "Here at this autir is the Trinyte, and there at thilk auter is Iesus, and ȝondir is the Holi Goost, and therbi is Marie with Seint Peter," and so forth; it
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The repressor of over much blaming of the clergy.
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Recock, Reginald, bp. of Chichester, 1395?-1460?
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London,: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts,
1860.
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Lollards
Great Britain -- Church history

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