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The Lay Folks' Catechism, or the English and Latin versions of Archbishop Thoresby's Instruction for the People

Together with a Wycliffite adaptation of the same, and the corresponding canons of the council of Lambeth. With introduction, notes, glossary, and index, by the late Thomas Frederick Simmons ... and Henry Edward Nolloth

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The on ys þis. þat we loue god ouer al þyngis./
þat oþer is ; þat we loue oure owyn evyn-cristyn as oure self./
God vs owe to loue for hym self holly with al oure herte.
with myȝt ; and with al oure thoȝt with word. and with dede./
Also we owe to loue oure euyn-cristyn for god.
and to coueyte. and to wille hem þe same good þat we loue oure self to.
þat is ; þat þey wel fare in body and sowle.
and com to þat blysse þat we þynke to come to.
who-so doþ þese two ; fulfillyþ al þe oþer./