Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. XXIII.
1 And men toolden to Dauid, seiynge,
Loo! Phylisteis fi&yogh;ten a&yogh;ens Seyla, and
struyen the floris of cornys.
2 Thanne
Dauid counseilde the Lord, seiynge, Whether
I shal goo, and smyte thes Philisteis?
And the Lord seith to Dauid, Go, and thou
shalt smyte Philisteis, and saue Seylam.
3 And men seiden, that weren with Dauid,
to hym, Loo! we here beynge in Juda
dreden; myche more if we goon into
-- --
Seilam a&yogh;ens the companyes of Philisteis.
4 Eft thanne Dauid counseilde the Lord;
the which answerynge seith to hym,
Ryse, and go into Seilam; forsothe I shal
take the Philisteis in thin hoond.
5 Thanne
wente Dauid and his men into Seilam,
and fau&yogh;t a&yogh;ens the Philisteis; and
droue a wey the beestis of hem, and
smoot hem with a greet veniaunce; and
Dauid sauyde the dwellers of Seilam.
6 Forsothe that tyme, the which Abiathar,
the sone of Achymalech, flee&yogh;, he descendide
to Dauid into Seylam, hauynge
with hym the preestis coope.
7 Forsothe
it is toold to Saul, that Dauid was comen
into Seylam; and Saul seith, The Lord
hath taken hym into myn hoondis, and
closid is goon into the cytee, in the which
ben &yogh;atis and lockis.
8 And Saul comaundide
to al the puple, that to the fi&yogh;t thei
shulden descende to Seilam, and bisege
Dauid and his men.
9 The which thing
whanne Dauid a&yogh;en knewe, for Saul made
redy to hym priueli yuel, he seide to
Abiathar, the preest, Clothe thee the
preestis coope.
10 And Dauid seith, Lord
God of Yrael, thi seruaunt hath herd the
fame, that Saul hath disposid to come to
Seyla, that he turne vpsedoun for me the
cyte;
11 if the men of Seyla shulen take me
into his hoondis, and if Saul shal come
doun, as thi seruaunt hath herd, Lord
God of Yrael, shewe to thi seruaunt? And
the Lord seith, He shal come doun.
12 And
Dauid eft seyde, If the men of Seila shulen
take me, and the men that ben with
me, into the hoondis of Saul? And the
Lord seide, Thei shulen take.
13 Thanne
Dauid roos, and his men, as sex hundrid;
and, goon out fro Seyla, hidir and thider
weren vagaunt vncerteyn. And it is
toold to Saul, that Dauid hadde flowen
fro Seila, and was sauid; for what skyl
he laft to goon out.
14 Forsothe Dauid
-- --
dwellide in deseert, in moost defensable
placis, and abood in the hil of wildirnes
of Ziph, in the derk hil; neuerthelater
Saul sou&yogh;te hym alle days, and the Lord
took hym not into the hoondis of hym.
15 And Dauid saw&yogh;, that Saul was goon out,
for to seche his lijf. Forsothe Dauid was
in the deseert of Ziph, in a wode.
16 And
Jonathas, the sone of Saul, roos, and
wente to Dauid into the wode, and coumfourtide
the hoondis of hym in God.
17 And he seide to hym, Ne drede thou;
forsothe ne the hoond of Saul my fader
shal fynde thee, and thou shalt regne
vpon Yrael, and I shal be to thee the
secounde; but and Saul my fader woot
this.
18 Thanne either smoot couenaunt of
pees before the Lord. And Dauid abood
in the wode; forsothe Jonathas turnede
a&yogh;en into his hows.
19 Forsothe Zipheis
stieden vp to Saul in Gabaa, seiynge,
Loo! whether not Dauid lurkith anentis
vs in moost siker placys of a wode, in
the hil of Achille, that is at the ri&yogh;t party
of deseert?
20 Nowe thanne, as thi soule
hath desyrid for to come doun, com doun;
forsothe `our shal be, that we taken hym
into the hoondis of the kyng.
21 And Saul
seide, Blessid be &yogh;e of the Lord, for &yogh;e
han sorewid my while.
22 Goth thanne, I
praye, and more bisily makith redy beforn,
and slelyer doth, and weitith swiftly
the place, where be the foot of hym, or
who saw&yogh; hym there, where &yogh;e han seid;
forsothe he a&yogh;en thenkith of me, that I
felli aspye hym.
23 Biholdith, and seeth
alle the hidils of hym, in whiche he is
hid, and turneth to me at certeyn thing,
that I goo with &yogh;ou; that if also into the
erthe he hide hym self, I shal thur&yogh;
serche hym in alle the thousandis of
Juda.
24 And thei rysynge wenten into
Ziph before Saul. Forsothe Dauid and
-- --
his men weren in the deseert of Maon,
in the wijld feeldis, at the ri&yogh;t side of
Jesymith.
25 Thanne Saul wente and his
felawis to seche hym, and it is toold to
Dauid; and anoon he wente doun to a
stoon, and abood in the deseert of Maon;
the whiche thinge whanne Saul had
herde, he pursuede Dauith in the deserte
of Maon.
26 And Saul wente and his
men at the side of the hil on the o partye;
forsothe Dauid and his men weren
in the side of the hil on the tother party;
wherfor Dauid dispeyryde hym self to
mowe askaap fro the face of Saul. And
so Saul and his men in maner of a coroun
girdiden Dauid and his men, for to take
hem.
27 And a messager cam to Saul, seiynge,
Hy&yogh;e, and come, for the Philisteis han
held hem seluen vpon the loond.
28 Thanne
Saul turnede a&yogh;en, cesynge to pursue Dauid;
and he wente into the a&yogh;en comynge
of the Philisteis. For that thei clepen that
place the Dyuydynge Stoone.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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