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. IV.
1 Answerende forsothe Elifath Themanythes
seide,
2 If wee begynne to speke to
thee, perauenture greuously thou shalt
taken; but the conceiuede woord who
shal moun holde?
3 Lo! thou hast ta&yogh;t
manye men, and thou hast strengthid
the weri hondis.
4 Thi woordis han maad
stable the vnstedefast, and the tremblende
knes thou hast coumfortid.
5 Now forsothe
is comen vp on thee veniaunce, and
thou hast failid; it hath touchid thee,
and thou art disturbid.
6 Wher is thi
drede, thi strengthe, and thi pacience,
and the perfeccioun of thi weies?
7 Recorde,
I beseche thee, who euere innocent
pershide, or whanne `ri&yogh;twis men
ben don awei?
8 But rathere I haue seen
hem, that werken wickidnesse, and sowen
-- --
sorewis,
9 and repen hem, God blowende,
to han pershid, and thur&yogh; the spirit of
his wrathe to be wastid.
10 The roring
of a leoun, and the vois of a leounesse,
and the teth of leoun whelpis ben tobrosid.
11 The tigre pershide, forthi that
he hadde no prei; and the leoun whelpis
ben scaterid.
12 But to me is seid a woord
hid, and as theefli myn ere toc the veynes
of his gruching.
13 In the orroure of the
ny&yogh;t si&yogh;te, whan slep is wont to ocupie
men, inward drede heeld me, and trembling;
14
and alle my bones ben agast.
15 And whan the spirit me present shulde
passe, inwardli griseden the heris of my
flesh.
16 Ther stod oon, whos chere I knew
not, an ymage befor myn e&yogh;en; and a
vois as of a softe eir I herde.
17 Whethir
a man of God shal be iustified bi comparisoun;
and a man shal be more clene
than his Makere?
18 Lo! that seruen to
hym ben not stable; and in his aungelis
he fond shreudenesse.
19 Myche more these
that dwellen cleyene housis, that han an
erthely foundement, shul be wastid as of
a mo&yogh;he.
20 Fro morutid vnto euen thei
shul ben hewe doun; and for no man
vnderstondith, with outen ende thei shul
pershe.
21 Thei forsothe, that weren lafte,
shul be taken awei fro hem, and dien,
and not in wisdam.
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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