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. III.
1 Thanne Tobie inwardli weilede, and
began to pre&yogh;e with teres,
2 seyende, Ri&yogh;twis
thou art, Lord, and alle thi domes
ben ri&yogh;twise, and alle thi weies merci,
-- --
and treuthe, and dom.
3 And now, Lord,
haue mynde of me, ne take thou veniaunce
of my synnes, ne remembre thou
my giltis, or of my fader and moder.
4 For wee han not obeshid to thin hestis,
and wee ben taken in to wasting, and
caitifte, and deth, and in to fable, and
in to reprof to alle naciouns, in the
whiche thou hast scatered vs.
5 And now,
Lord, grete ben thi domys; for wee han
not don aftir thin hestis, and wee han
not go cleerli befor thee.
6 And now,
Lord, after thi wille do with me merci,
and comaunde in pes my spirit to be
resceiued; it is spedful forsothe to me
more to dien than to liuen.
7 And so the
same dai fel, that Sara, the do&yogh;ter of Raguel,
in Ragis, cite of Medis, and she
herde the repref of oon of the handwymmen
of hir fadir;
8 for she was take to
seuene men, and a deuel, Asmodius bi
name, slo&yogh; hem, anoon as thei weren gon
in to hir.
9 Thanne whan she blamede
the child womman for hir gilte, she answerde
to hir, seiende, See wee no more
of thee sone or do&yogh;ter vp on erthe, thou
sleeresse of thi men;
10 whether and slen
thou wilt me, as and thou slowe seuene
men? At this vois she wente in to the
ouere bed place of hir hous, and thre
da&yogh;is and thre ny&yogh;t she eet not, ne dranc;
but in orisoun abidende stille,
11 with teres
she pre&yogh;ede God, that fro this reprof he
shulde deliueren hir.
12 It is do forsothe
the thridde dai, whil she fulfilde the
orisoun,
13 blessende the Lord, she seide,
Blessid is thi name, God of oure fadris,
that whan thou were wrathid, thou shalt
do merci, and in time of tribulacioun
synnes thou for&yogh;iuest to hem, that inwardli
clepen thee.
14 To thee, Lord, I
turne my face, and to thee myn e&yogh;en I
-- --
rere.
15 I aske, Lord, that fro the bond of
this repref thou asoile me, or certis fro
aboue the erthe thou delyuere me.
16 Thou
wost, Lord, for neuere I coueitide man,
and clene I haue kept my soule fro alle
lust.
17 Neuere with pleieres I mengde me,
ne with hem that in li&yogh;tnesse gon parcener
I &yogh;af me.
18 An husbonde forsothe
with thi drede, not with my lust, I consentide
to taken.
19 And or I was vnwrthi
to hem, or thei parauenture to me weren
not wrthi; for parauenture to an other
man thou hast kept me.
20 Forsothe in
mannys power is not thi counseil.
21 That
forsothe for certein hath eche man that
herieth thee, for his lif, if in prouyng
it were, shal ben crouned; if forsothe in
tribulacioun it were, it shal be deliuered;
and if in chastising it were, it shal ben
leful to come to thi merci.
22 Forsothe thou
hast not delit in oure leesingus; for after
tempest thou makist reste, and after
teres sheding and weiling, ful out io&yogh;ing
thou heeldest in.
23 Be thi name, God of
Irael, blessid in to worldus.
24 In that time
ben herd ful the pre&yogh;eeris of bothe in the
si&yogh;te of the glorie of the most good God;
and ther is sent an aungil of the Lord,
25
the holi Rafael, that he shulde curen hem
bothe, whos orisouns o time in the si&yogh;te
of the Lord ben rehersid.
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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