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. IX.
1 And Dauid seide, Whether wenist thou
that there be eny man, that is laft of the
hows of Saul, that I do with hym mercy
for Jonatha?
2 Forsothe there was of the
hows of Saul a seruaunt, Cyba bi name;
whom whanne the kyng hadde clepid to
hym silf, seide to hym, Ert thou not
Cyba? And he answerde, Y am thi seruaunt.
3 And the kyng seith, Whether is
there on lyue eny man of the hows of
Saul, that I doo with hym merci of
God? And Ciba seide to the kyng, The
sone of Jonatha is on lyue, feble the feet.
4 Where, he seith, is he? And Ciba seide
to the kyng, Loo! he seith, he is in the
hows of Machir, the sone of Amyel, in
Lodobar.
5 Thanne kyng Dauid sente,
and took hym fro the hows of Machir,
the sone of Amyel, fro Lodobar.
6 Forsothe
whanne Myphibosech, the sone of
Jonathan, the sone of Saul, was comen
to Dauid, he felle into his face, and
lowtide. And Dauid seide, Myphibosech!
The which answerde, I am ny&yogh;, thi seruaunt.
7 And Dauid seith to hym, Ne
dreed thow, for doynge I shal do with
thee merci for Jonathan, thi fader; and
I shal restore to thee alle the feeldis of
Saul, thi fader, and thou shalt eete breed
in my bord euermore.
8 The which honouringe
him seith, Who am I, thi seruaunt,
whom thou hast biholdyn vpon a deed
hownd lijk of me?
9 And so the king
clepide Cibam, the child of Saul; and
seide to hym, Alle thingis, what euere
weren of Saul and al his hous, I haue
&yogh;euen to the sone of thi lord;
10 wyrk
thanne the erthe to hym, thou, and thi
sones, and thi seruauntis, and thou shalt
brynge yn meetis to the sone of thi lord,
that he be nurshid; Myphibosech forsothe,
the sone of thi lord, shal eete
euermore breed vpon my bord. Forsothe
-- --
there weren of Ciba fifteen sonys and
twenti seruauntis.
11 And Ciba seide to
the kyng, As thou hast comaundid, my
lord kyng, to thi seruaunt, so thi seruaunt
shal doo; and Myphibosech shal
eete vpon thi bord, as oon of the sonys
of the kyng.
12 Forsothe Myphibosech
hadde a litil sone, Mycha bi name; forsothe
al the kynrede of the hows of Ciba
seruede to Myphibosech.
13 But Myphibosech
dwellide in Jerusalem; for of the
bord of the kyng contynueli he eete, and
he was halt either foot.
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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