Select English works of John Wyclif; edited from original mss. by Thomas Arnold.

þat ben stoppid wiþ worldli þouȝtis, or wiþ lustis of her fleishe, failen to plese þis Ladi here, and folwe her in þer þouȝt; and þus þei maken not þe [þis, E.] Lord myche, ne hir spirit is glad in God. But þus dide oure Ladi Marie, as þe gospel telliþ of hir. And þus fewe men in þis liif wanten ernes of dispeire; for þei þat ben depid in synne, and þenken not but on þes worldli goodis, wanten hope of hevenli blisse, and þus þei growen in dispeire. And on þis shulden we prestis þenken; and algatis prestis of þe world, þat suen not Crist in poverte, but þenken how þei mai be riche here. And þis synne is more in coventis þat ben groundid in her goodis, and ever ben depid in þer synne for defaute of riȝt hope.

ÞIS gospel telliþ how Petre apostle passide in bileve oþer apostlis, for he was more sad and hardi to trowe of Crist þat he shulde. Matheu telliþ þat Jesus cam into þe contre þat siche a cite was inne sett [sett ynne, E.] þat was clepid Cesarie of Filip [Philip, E.] . And of two men it hadde þe name. Þis citee hadde þree names; first, it was clepid Lachis; and siþ it was clepid Dan, after þe kinrede of Dan; and after of Philip, Heroudis broþir, þat hadde þe fourþe part of þis rewme, it was clepid Cesarie of Philip, in worship of þe emperour and him [If the writer had consulted St. Jerome, he would have found (see Smith's Bible Dict.) that Dan and Cesarea-Philippi were two different places, standing about four miles apart, at two different sources of the Jordan. But perhaps his authority was F. Brocardus of Strasburg, a Dominican friar who visited the Holy Land in 1283, and whose de|scription of his journey is given in Canisius's Thesaurus, vol. iv. Bro|cardus similarly confounds the po|sition of Dan or Laish (he calls it Lesem), with that of Paneas or Cesarea-Philippi, to which he gives the additional appellation of Ba|lenas.] . And þis citee was divers