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 Aftir these thingus forsothe, whan was
the feste dai of the Lord, and shulde be
maad a good meteshipe in the hous of
Tobie,
2 he seide to his sone, Go, and
bring summe men of oure linage, dredend
God, and ete thei with vs.
3 And
whan he shulde gon, turned a&yogh;een he
tolde to hym, oon of the sonus of Irael
slain to lyn in the strete; and anoon
stertende out fro his mete sete, leuende
the mete, fastende cam to the bodi;
4 and
takende it, he bar to his hous priueli, that
whil the sunne were go doun, slee&yogh;li he
shulde birien it.
5 And whan he hadde
hid the bodi, he eet bred with weiling
and trembling,
6 remembrende that woord,
that the Lord seide by Amos, the profete,
&YOGH;oure feste da&yogh;es shul be turned in
to weiling and sorewing.
7 Whan forsothe
the sunne hadde go doun, he wente, and
biriede it.
8 Forsothe alle hise ne&yogh;heboris
vndernomyn hym, seiende, Now bi cause
of this thing thou art comaundid to be
slain, and vnnethe thou hast scapid the
maundement of deth, and eft thou biriest
the deade?
9 But Tobye, more dredende
God than the king, ca&yogh;te the bodies of
the slaine, and hidde in his hous, and in
the mydny&yogh;tus biriede hem.
10 It fel forsothe,
that on a dai weri of biriyng, comende
hom, he hadde cast hymself beside
the wal, and hadde faste slept;
11 and fro
the nest of swalewis to hym slepende
hote toordis fellen in vp on his e&yogh;en;
and was maad blind.
12 This forsothe
temptacioun therfore the Lord suffride
to come to hym, that to the aftercomeres
shulde exsaumple be &yogh;iuen of his
pacience, as and of holi Job.
13 And whan
fro his time that he began to speke,
-- --
euermore he dredde God, and kepte his
hestis, he sorewide not a&yogh;en God, that
the veniaunce of blindnesse cam to hym;
14 but vnmouable in the drede of God abod
stille, gracis doende to God alle the da&yogh;es
of his lif.
15 For as to blisful Job asaileden
the kingus, so to this fader and
moder and his cosynes scorneden his lif,
seiende,
16 Where is thin hope, for the whiche
almesse deede and sepulturis thou didist?
17 Tobie forsothe blamede hem, seiende,
Wileth not so speken,
18 for the sonus of
halewis wee ben, and that lif wee abijden,
that God is to &yogh;iue to hem that ther
feith neuermor chaungen fro hym.
19 Anne
forsothe, his wif, wente to weuyng werc
eche dai, and of the trauaile of hir hondis
the liflode, that she my&yogh;te gete, she bro&yogh;te.
20 And it is do, that takende a kide of she
get, she bro&yogh;te hom.
21 Of the whiche bletende
the vois whan hir man hadde herd,
seide, Looketh, lest parauenture it be
stoln, but &yogh;eldeth it to his lordis; for it
is not leeful to vs, or to eten of stelthe
any thing or to touchen.
22 At these
thingis his wif wroth answerde, Openli
vein is maad thin hope, and thine almesse
deedis now han aperid.
23 And in these
and in othere suche maner woordis she
putte reprof to hym.
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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