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 The wrdis of Ecclesiastes, sone of
Dauid, king of Jerusalem.
2 Vanite of
vanites, seide Eclesiastes; vanite of vanytes,
and alle thingus vanyte.
3 What
hath a man more ouer of al his trauaile,
that he trauaileth vnder the sunne?
4 Jeneracioun goth, and ieneracioun cometh;
the erthe forsothe in to with oute ende
stant.
5 The sunne risith vp, and goth
doun, and to his place turneth a&yogh;een;
6 and there a&yogh;een risende goth aboute bi
the south, and turneth a&yogh;een to the north.
Enuyrounende alle thingus the spirit in
cumpas passeth, and in to his cercles
turneth a&yogh;een.
7 Alle flodis entren in to
the se, and the se redoundith not; to
the place whennes the flodis wenten out,
thei turnen a&yogh;een, that eft thei flowen
out.
8 Alle thingus harde, and a man mai
not them tellen out pleynli with wrd;
the e&yogh;e is not fild with si&yogh;te, ne fulfild is
the ere with heering.
9 What is that was,
it that is to come? What is that is
mad, it that is to be maad?
10 No thing
vnder the sunne newe, ne any man mai
seyn, Lo! this is fresh newe; now forsothe
it wente beforn in worldis, the
whiche weren beforn vs.
11 Ther is not
mynde of the rathere thingus, but and of
tho thingis forsothe, that ben aftir to
come, shal not ben recording anent hem
that be to come in the laste time.
12 I
Eclesiastes was king of Irael in Jerusalem;
13 and I purposide in myn inwit to
seche and enserchen wisli of alle thingus,
that ben mad vnder sunne. This werste
ocupacioun &yogh;aff God to the sonus of men,
-- --
that thei shulden ben ocupied in it.
14 I
sa&yogh; alle thingus that ben mad vnder the
sunne, and, lo! alle thingus vanite and
tormenting of spirit.
15 Peruertid men of
hard ben amendid; and withoute ende
is the noumbre of foolis.
16 I spac in myn
herte, seiende, Lo! gret I am mad, and
I wente beforn alle in wisdam, that weren
beforn me in Jerusalem; and my mynde
beheeld manye thingus wisli, and I lernede.
17 And I &yogh;af myn herte, that I knewe
prudence and doctrine, and errouris and
folie. And I knew&yogh; that in these thingis
also was trauaile and tormenting of spirit;
18 for thi that in myche wisdam is
myche indignacioun, and that addith kunnyng,
addeth and trauaile.
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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