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. I.
1 Arfaxath forsothe, king of Meedis,
hadde put vnder &yogh;oc manie Jentilis to
his empire; and he bilde vp a cite most
my&yogh;ti, that he clepede Egbatenys.
2 Of
square stones and hewen he made his
wallis, in hei&yogh;te of seuenti cubitus, and
in breede of thretti cubitus. His tourys
forsothe he sette in hei&yogh;te of an hundrid
cubitis.
3 Bi square forsothe of hem either
side was strecchid, in space of twenti feet;
and he putte his &yogh;atis in the hei&yogh;te of the
touris.
4 And he gloriede, as my&yogh;ti in
my&yogh;t of his ost, and in glorie of his
foure horsid carris.
5 The twelfthe &yogh;er
therfore of his regne, Nabugodonosor,
king of Assiries, that regnede in the
grete cite of Nynyue, fa&yogh;t a&yogh;en Arfaxath,
and waan hym in the grete feld,
6 that is
clepid Ragau, aboute Eufraten, and Tigre,
and Jodasan, in the feld of Erioth, king
of Elikis.
7 Thanne is enhauncid vp the
reume of Nabugodonosor, and his herte
is rerid; and he sente to alle, that dwelten
in Cicilie, and Damasch, and Lyban,
and to the Jentilis,
8 that ben in Carmel
and Cedar, and to the dwelleris in Galilee,
and in the grete feld of Esdrelon,
and to alle,
9 that weren in Samarie, and
be&yogh;onde Jordan flod, vnto Jerusalem; and
to al the lond of Jesse, to that me cometh
to the hillis of Ethiope.
10 To alle these
Nabugodonosor, king of Assiries, sente
messageres;
11 the whiche alle with o wil
withseiden, and thei senten hem a&yogh;een
voide, and with oute wrshipe casten
awei.
12 Thanne endeyned king Nabugodonosor
to al that lond, swor bi the
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rewme and his trone, that he shulde defenden
hym fro alle thoo regiounus.
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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