The last age of the church

by John‏ Wycliffe

“He could hunt as the wilde dere,

And ride on hauking for the rivere.”

[Page xxvi.] line 2.

haueþ.

This Word should probably be haven; but it is haveth in the MS. In the next Line, “byngȳn̄ge,” for “bygynnynge,” is an obvious Mistake of the MS.

[Ibid.] line 9.

weren two and twenty hundriddis of ȝeeris.

By this Date the Writer probably intended the Interval from the Birth of Heber, to the Birth of Christ: which by the Computation of Bede in his Chronicon sive de sex ætatibus mundi, wanted but five Years of 2200, a mere Trifle with such Expounders of Prophecy as our Author.