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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1 And ther is maad a cri of the puple
and of ther wiues, a gret, a&yogh;en Jewis,
ther brethern.
2 And ther weren that
seiden, Oure sonus and oure do&yogh;tris ben
ful manye; take we for the pris of hem
whete, and ete we, and liue wee.
3 And
ther weren that seiden, Oure feldis, and
vines, and oure housis lei wee to, and
take wee whete in hunger.
4 And othere
seiden, Borewe wee monei in to the tributus
of the king, and &yogh;iue wee oure feldis,
and oure vines.
5 And now as the flesh of
oure brethern, so oure flesh ben; and as
the sonys of hem, so and oure sonus; lo!
we han vnder &yogh;okid our sonus and oure
do&yogh;tris in to seruage, and of oure do&yogh;tris
ben thrallis, and we han not, wherof thei
moun be bo&yogh;t; and our feldus, and oure
vines other men welden.
6 And I wrathide
ful myche, whan I hadde herd the cri of
hem after these woordys.
7 And myn herte
tho&yogh;te with me, and I blamede the most
wrshipeful men and maister iugis; and
seide to hem, Echone aske &yogh;ee not vsuris
of &yogh;oure brethern. And I gederede a&yogh;en
-- --
hem a gret conuocacioun,
8 and seide to
them, Wee, as &yogh;ee witen, han forbo&yogh;t oure
brethern Jewis, that weren sold to the
Jentilis, after oure power; and &yogh;ee thanne
sellen &yogh;oure brethern, and wee shul bien
hem a&yogh;een. And thei heelden ther pes,
ne founden not what thei shulden answern.
9 And I seide to hem, This is no
good thing, that &yogh;ee don; whi in the
drede of oure God &yogh;ee gon not, lest it be
repreuid to vs of the Jentilis, oure enemys?
10 And I and my brethern, and my
childer, lenten to manye men monei and
whete, ne wee askeden not a&yogh;en this in
to comun; and other thing that is a&yogh;t to
vs graunte wee.
11 &YOGH;eldeth to them to dai
ther feldis, and ther vines, their oliues,
and ther housis; but more and the hundrid
part of monee of whete, and of win,
and oile, that &yogh;ee weren wont to asken of
hem, &yogh;iueth for hem.
12 And thei seiden,
Wee shal &yogh;elden, and of hem nothing we
sechen; and thus wee shul do as thou
spekist. And I clepide the prestis, and
adiurede hem, that thei shulde do aftir
that I hadde seid.
13 Ferthermor I shakide
out my bosum, and seide, Thus God shake
out eche man, that fulfillith not this woord
of his hous, and of his trauailis; and be
he shaken out, and maad voide. And al
the multitude seide, Amen; and preiseden
God. Thanne dide the puple, as it
was seid.
14 Forsothe fro that dai that the
king hadde comaunded to me, that I were
duke in the lond of Juda, fro the twentithe
&yogh;er vn to the two and threttithe
&yogh;er of king Artaxerses, bi twelue &yogh;er,
I and my brethern the &yogh;eris frutus, that
weren due to dukis, wee eeten not.
15 Forsothe
the firste dukis that weren befor
me greueden the puple, and token of hem
in bred, and win, and in mone, eche dai
-- --
fourti ouncis; but and the seruauns of
hem presseden doun the puple. I forsothe
dide not so, for the drede of God;
but rathere in the werk of the wal bildede,
16
and feeld I bo&yogh;te not, and alle my
childer gedered weren to the werc.
17 Also
Jewis and the maister iugis of hem
weren an hundrid men and fifti; and
thoo that camen to vs of the Jentilis,
that ben in oure enuyroun, weren in my
bord.
18 Forsoth there was greithid to
me bi alle da&yogh;is an oxe, sixe chosen wetheris,
out take volatilis, and betwe ten
da&yogh;es diuerse wines; and othere manye
thingus I &yogh;af; ferthermor and the &yogh;eris
frutis of my duchie I so&yogh;te not; forsothe
the puple gretli was poueresht.
19 My God, haue mynde of me in to goode,
after alle thingis that I haue do to this
puple.
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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