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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.

and namly, but if þei clerkis, if þei tak gylfuly under color of nede, þis þat is dewe to þe pore, doutles þei do sacrilege, and bi misusing of swilk þingis þei eyte and dring dome to hemsilf. Also Prosper [Prosper.] seiþ, Þei þat han her owne, if þei wil ani þing be don to hem, þei tak not wiþ out gret synne þat þe pore man schuld lif of. As ȝeld in almis schal be putt be fore, þat þei only take pore mennis meytis, þat may not labor ne suffice not. Eft Austeyn seiþ, Wan we may [Austeyn.] labor, we how not begging tempt God; þat as þus þat we may of his gift. And sin we lif þer of, we lif of him gifyng, for he haþ ȝeuen þat we may. Also þe begging of clerkis is schenschip of [Jerom.] bischops; ffor þus seiþ Jerom, Now syn coueyteis haþ waxen in þe kirk, as in þe empyr of Rome, lawis gon a wey fro þe prest, and visioun from þe prophet, al bi power of bischopis name þat þei chalang unlefuly to hem wiþ out þe kirk. Also þei dryue in to þer vsis al þat is of dekunis, ne þei chalang not þis only þat is ascriuid, but þei tak a vey all þingis fro alle men; þe vnblessid clerk beggiþ in þe strete, and boundun vnder seruil werk he askiþ almes opunly of ilk man. And of þis is he þe more dispicid of all, þat he wrechidly desolat is gessid to be fallun iustly to þis wrechidnes þo bischopis a lon lowen to ȝeftis. Alon he vsiþ ministry. Alon he chalangiþ to him all þingis. Alon he assoyliþ oþer partyes. Alon he sleþ all. And for coueytis of prestis oft risun hatis; þer for are bischopis accusid of clerkis; þer of þe biginning of strif; þer of þe cause of detraccoun; þer of is maad þe beginning of synne. For soþ, if ilk man in þis world is bidun to haue sum þing, þat he be content only wiþ possessioun, and tak not oþer mennis þingis, noiþer þe feld, noiþer þe wyne of þe pore, nor his wayn, nor his money, nor his frutis, how mikil more he þat is prest to þe kirk of God howiþ in al þing to kep riȝtwisnes, þat he chalang only þis to him þat [he] knowiþ to be of his riȝt, and ref not oþer mennis þingis, ne touche; feel he him euyn wiþ oþer. Also, in þe story of Seynt Clement is found, þat Petir [Clement.]
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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,
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