Many tyme haue they foughte agaynst
me fro my youth vp (may
Israel now saye.)
Yea, many a tyme haue they
fought gaainst me fro my youth vp, but thei
haue not ouercome me.
The plowers plowed vpon my backe, ∧
made longe forowes.
But the righteous lorde hath hewen the
yocke of the vngodly in peces.
Let them be confounded ∧ turned backewarde,
as many as haue euell will at05Q0767 Syon.
Let them be euen as the haye vppon the
house toppes, whyche wythereth afore it be
pluckte vp.
Wherof the mower fylleth not his h&abar;de,
neither he that byndeth vp the sheaues, hys
bosome.
So þt; they which go by, saye not so much
as: þe; Lord prospere you, we wish you good
lucke in the name of the Lord.
T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
