ingular. The following examples
are Mr. Guest's.

1. In these lay a gret multitude of _syke_ men, _blinde_, crokid, and
_drye_.--_Wicliffe_, Jon. v.

2. In all the orders foure is non that can
So much of dalliance and faire language,
He hadde ymade ful many a marriage--
His tippet was ay farsed ful of knives,
And pinnes for to given _faire_ wives.--_Chau._, Prol.

3. And _al_ the cuntre of Judee wente out to him, and _alle_ men of
Jerusalem.--_Wicliffe_, Mark i.

4. He ghyueth lif to _alle_ men, and brething, and _alle_ thingis; and
made of von _al_ kynde of men to inhabit on _al_ the face of the
erthe.--_Wicliffe_, Dedis of Apostlis, xvii.

5. That fadres sone which _alle_ thinges wrought;
And _all_, that wrought is with a skilful thought,
The Gost that from the fader gan procede,
Hath souled hem.--_Chau._, The Second Nonnes Tale.

6. And _alle_ we that ben in this aray
And maken _all_ this lamentation,
We losten _alle_ our husbondes at that toun.--_Chau._, The Knightes
Tales.

7. A _good_ man bryngeth forth _gode_ thingsis of _good_
tresore.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. xii.

8. So every _good_ tree maketh _gode_ fruytis, but an yvel tree maketh
yvel fruytes. A _good_ tree may not mak yvel fruytis, neither an yvel
tree may make _gode_ fruytis. Every tree that maketh not _good_ fruyt
schal be cut down.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. vii.

9. Men loveden more darknessis than light for her werkes weren _yvele_,
for ech man that doeth _yvel_, hateth the light.--_Wicliffe_, John iii.

10. And _othere_ seedis felden among thornes wexen up and strangliden
hem, and _othere_ seedis felden into good lond and gaven fruyt, sum an
hundred fold, _another_ sixty fold, an _other_ thritty fold,
&c.--_Wicliffe_, Matt. xiii.

11. Yet the while he spake to the puple lo _his_ mother and _hise_
brethren stonden withoute forth.--_Wicliffe_, Mat. xii.

12. And _hise_ disciplis camen and taken _his_ body.--_Wicliffe_,
Matt., xiv.

13. When _thise_ Bretons tuo were fled out of _this_ lond
Ine toke his feaute of alle, &c.--_Rob Brunne_, p. 3.

14. _This_ is thilk disciple that bereth witnessyng of _these_ thingis,
and wroot them.--_Wicliffe_, John xxi.

15. Seye to us in what powers thou doist _these_ thingis, and who is he
that gaf to thee _this_ power.--_Wicliffe_, Luke xx.

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