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. II.
1 It is do forsothe in the monith of
Aprill, the twentithe &yogh;er of Artaxerses,
the king, and win was befor hym, and
I heuede vp the win, and &yogh;af to the king,
and I was astoneid beforn his face.
2 And
the king seide to me, Whi is thi chere
dreri, sithen I see thee not sijk? That is
-- --
not in vein; but I wot not the euel that
is in thin herte. And I dradde ful myche;
and I seide to the king,
3 King, with outen
ende liue; whi shulde not my chere sorewin
priueli? for the cite of the hous of
the sepulcris of my fader is desert, and
his &yogh;atus ben brent with fiir.
4 And the
king seith to me, For what thing askist
thou? And I pre&yogh;ede the God of heuene,
and seide to the king,
5 If it is seen good
to the king, and if it plese to thi seruauns
befor thi face, that thou sende me
in to Jude, I beseche, to the cite of the
sepulcre of my fader, and I shal bilden
it.
6 And the king seide to me, and the
quen that sat biside hym, Vnto what
time shal be thi wei, and `whanne shalt
thou come a&yogh;een? And I pleside befor
the chere of the king, and he sente me,
and I sette hym a time;
7 and seide to the
king, If to the king it is seen good, lettris
&yogh;iue he to me to the dukis of the regioun
be&yogh;onde the flod, that thei lede me ouer,
to the time I come in to Jude;
8 and a
lettre to Asaf, kepere of the wilde wode
of the king, that he &yogh;iue to me trees, that
I mowe couere the &yogh;atis of the tour of
the hous, and of the wal of the cite, and
the hous that I shal come in. And the
king &yogh;af to me, after the goode hond of
my God with me.
9 And I cam to the
dukis of the regioun be&yogh;unde the flod,
and I &yogh;af to hym the epistolis of the
king. Forsothe the king hadde sent with
me prinsis of kni&yogh;tus, and horsemen.
10 And
Sanaballath Oronyte, and Tobie, seruaunt
Amonyte, herden, and ben euele
pa&yogh;id bi gret sorewe, that a man was
come, that shulde seche the prosperite of
the sonus of Irael.
11 And I cam in to Jerusalem,
and I was there thre da&yogh;es.
-- --
12 And I ros the ny&yogh;t, and fewe men with
me, and I shewide to no man, what God
hadde &yogh;iuen in myn herte, that I shulde
do in Jerusalem; and there was noon
helpely beeste to me, but the beeste that
I sat on.
13 And I wente out bi the &yogh;ate
of the valei the ny&yogh;t, and beforn the welle
of the dragoun, and at the drit &yogh;ate; and
I beheeld the wal of Jerusalem scaterid,
and his &yogh;atis wastid with fijr.
14 And I
passide ouer to the &yogh;ate of the welle, and
to the watir cundict of the king, and
ther was no place to the beeste, that I
sat on that he my&yogh;te passen ouer;
15 and
I ste&yogh;ide vp bi the strem the ny&yogh;t, and I
beheeld the wal, and turned a&yogh;een I
cam to the &yogh;ate of the valei, and am
comen a&yogh;een.
16 The maister iuges forsothe
wisten not, whider I was go, or what I
wolde do; but and to the Jewis, and to
the prestus, and to the most worshipeful
men, and to the maister iuges, and to the
tothere that maden the werc, vnto that
of the placis no thing I hadde shewid.
17 And I seide to hem, &YOGH;ee han knowen the
affliccioun, in whiche we ben, for Jerusalem
is desert, and his &yogh;atis ben wastid
with fijr; cometh, and bilde we vp the
wallis of Jerusalem, and be we no more
repref.
18 And I shewide to hem the hond
of my God, that it was good with me,
and the woordis of the king, that he spac
to me; and I sey, Rise we, and bilde we;
and the hondis of hem ben coumfortid
in goode.
19 Forsothe Sanballath Oronyte,
and Tobias, seruaunt Amonyte, and Gosem
Arabs, herden, and scorneden vs,
and despiseden; and seiden, What is
this thing that &yogh;ee don? whether a&yogh;en
the king &yogh;ee rebellen?
20 And I &yogh;eld to
them a woord, and seide to them, God
-- --
of heuene, he helpith vs, and wee his
seruauns ben; rise wee, and bilde wee;
to &yogh;ou forsothe is no part and ri&yogh;twisnesse
and mynde in Jerusalem.
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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