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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.

for bidun þat þe it are þat are brout in bi fendis curst, and bi stering of fendis, aȝen þe bidding of God, and also be mannis vanite and foly, wiþ out ground of God Almiȝti, and in wilk men trystun of help wiþ outun him, and oftun aȝen as ȝeþun and vn|feiþful don; þus we callid charmers þo þat wil bi þer curst haue a þing þow it plece not God. And þis schewiþ what is a charme, weþer it be charme maad or writun, or þe wirking of þe charmar. And enchauntors are þoo þat in callun fendis to ken hem þingis, or to telle hem þingis be for, or to help hem, weþer þei do it bi preyor, or bi sacrifice offrid to hem, or bi ani oþer vnleful maner. And swilk we callen phitoners. Also ariolers þoo þat maken placis to here God, or wenun to bow God to do for þe place, as Balaam þat sowt to curse þe peple aȝen Goddis bidding: and wan he miȝt not curse hem in o place, he sout to curse hem in a noþer, and went þat God wold haue bowed tul hem. And ruspiceris are þoo þat loken to horis or tymis, are goddis or oþer gouernoris, or wen þat þei may bowe God to do þing in on houre, þat he wil not do in an oþer. An augurreris we calle þoo þat tentun to þe garring and fliyng of briddus, as if þei brout good or harme, or God be led oþer wise þer bi, to do oþer wyse þan as is iust, and good, and merciful, and trewe. And dremridars we calle þoo þat tentun to dremis, os if þey drem bi original and principal cause of God; or iuil or good bi led bi þe drem to do veynly, or vniustly, or to be chongid. Nigramauncers are þei þat bi figeris or markyngis vp on þe dead body of best or of man, þus enforciþ to geit wityng, or to wirk, or þus to bow God. And on þis maner God forbediþ to clep þe hed in to round, or to schaf þe berd, or to mak þus ani figeris on þe dead, os to geit ani þing þer by, but if God wel, or ellis to bow him or chong him þer bi; þus we callen þe magis, þoo þat calculun bi þe sternis þingis to cum, wening as þei were Goddis gouernours, chef of þis world, or ellis þat God may be chaungid, and led bi hem. And þus are callid geomanceris, þat werkun bi
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An apology for Lollard doctrines, attributed to Wicliffe. Now first printed from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin. With an introduction and notes by James Henthorn Todd.
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Wycliffe, John, supposed author. d. 1384.
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London,: Printed for the Camden Society, by J.B. Nichols,
1842.
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Lollards

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