(See the said _Three Treatises_, pages cxxxvii, and Notes, pages
ccxx. ccxxiii-iv.)
Wyckliffe using the possessive "_their moke_," not the mere "a," as we
would say, I would not give "a pin," "a button," &c., together with the
evidence of the Irish _muc_, and the obsolete German _Mocke_, which has
been defined "Sus foeminea, quæ ob foetus alitur," hardly leaves a doubt
that he means that animal, which may be traced also in the words _muck_,
_mucky_, &c. The reader may judge for himself by the following
passage:--
"Crist gave his life for hise brether, and so rewled hise shepe;
thei wolen not _gyue her moke_ to help _here_ nedy brethern, but
leten _here shep_ perishen, and taken of hem."
In allusion to their not feeding their flock, but suffering their sheep
to perish, he prefers to mention an eatable object.