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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.

þouȝt ne in word ne dede, but summe ypocritis seyn aȝenst þis in worde or dede or boþe, þat it his best to feyne holy pouert aftir crist & his apostlis, & þer-wiþ lyuen in lustis of worldly gaynesse, of costy [gostly X.] housynge & grete more þan lordis don, & in costy cloþing for ony lord, & in cost of mete or drynke & makynge of grete festis of riche men. & þis lif þei holden vp bi fals beggynge of pore men, þat may not wel paie here rentis to lordis & here dymes & offryngis to curatis & meyntene here wif & children & leue out of dette, traueile þei neuere so besily nyȝt & day. & be þei neuere so pore & in grete dette þes ypocritis ceessen not to robbe hem bi fals beggynge, dampned of goddis lawe. oþere ypocritis seyn in dede þat it is betre for clerkis to haue worldly rentis & lordischipis dowid to hem & parische chirchis approprid to hem [omitted X.] bi symonye & lesyngis þan to lyue in wilful & honest pouert as crist & his apostlis diden. & ȝit þei reulen not wele þe peple, as lordis schulden, but seyn þat þei ben dede to þe world; & [omitted X.] techen not þe peple goddis lawe in word & ensaumple as prestis schulden, but seyn it falleþ not to hem to preche; & þei traueile not for here liflode, as god enyoyned adam for his penaunce, & poul traueiled wiþ his hondis in nede for his sustenaunce, but þei lyuen comynly in ydelnesse & glotonye & enuye & many oþer synnys, & feynen holy|nesse in syngynge, in preynge of mouþ & customes maad of mannus errour, more þan in lyuynge after cristis gospel. & whanne trewe clerkis meyntenen here trewe part bi holy writt & reson & ensaumple of cristis lif & his apostlis, & newe ypocritis meyntenen here fals part bi ground of synful men & bi ypocrisie & worldly power & ȝiftis of money & censures, as suspendynge, cursynge & prisonynge, & þanne is debat & strif reised at þe fulle. for many lordis & grete men ben disceyued bi þe multitude of ypocritis, & many blente bi ȝiftis of money & worldly profitis þat þei geten of þes ypocritis, & summe bi fleschly loue & worldly frendi|schipe, & for þat fewe stonden wiþ þe trewþe & but fewe
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The English works of Wyclif hitherto unprinted.Edited by F. D. Matthew.
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Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.
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London,: Pub. for the Early English text society, by Trübner & co.,
1880.

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