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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1 In the thrid &yogh;eer of rewme of Cyrus,
kyng of Persis, a word is toke a&yogh;ein to
Danyel, by name Balthasar; and the
word trewe, and grete strengthe, and he
vndirstode the word; forsothe vndirstondyng
is neede in visioun.
2 In tho
days Y, Danyel, weilide in days of three
wekis;
3 Y eete not desireful breede, and
-- --
fleshe and wyne entriden not in to my
mouth, bot nether with oynement Y was
anoyntid, til days of three weekis weren
fulfillid.
4 Forsothe in the fourthe and
twentithe day of the first moneth, Y was
bysydis the grete flode, that is Tigris.
5 And I reyside myn ee&yogh;en, and saw&yogh;, and
loo! oo man clothid in lynnen, and his
reyns gird to with shynyng gold;
6 and
his body as crisolitus, and his face as
fourme of leyt, and his ee&yogh;en as a laumpe
brennynge, and his armys and whiche
thing is dounward vn to the feet as
fourme of brasse waxinge whyte, and the
voice of his wordis as voice of multitude.
7 Forsothe Y, Danyel, aloone sawe the visioun;
sothely the men that weren with
me, sawen not, bot ful myche dreed felle
vp on hem, and thei fledden in to an hid
place.
8 Forsothe Y left aloone sawe this
greet visioun, and strengthe abode not in
me; bot and my fourme is chaungid in
me, and Y was drye, or welewid, nether
hadde eny thing of strengthis.
9 And Y
herde the voice of his wordis, and Y
heerynge laye castidoun, or ferd, vpon
my face, and my cheer cleuyde to the
erthe.
10 And loo! an hond touchide me,
and reyside me on my knees, and vpon
the fyngris of myn hondis.
11 And he
sayde to me, Danyel, man of desiris, vndirstonde
the wordis whiche Y speke to
thee, and stonde thou in thi degree;
now forsothe Y am sente to thee. And
whenn he saide to me this word, Y stode
tremblynge.
12 And he saith to me, Danyel,
nyl thou dreede, for of the first
day in whiche thou puttidist thin herte
for to vndirstonde, that thou shuldist
tourmente thee in si&yogh;t of thi God, thin
wordis ben herde, and Y came for thi
wordis.
13 Forsothe the prince of the kingdam
of Persis a&yogh;ein stode me oon and
twenti days, and loo! Mychael, oon of
the first princis, came in to myn help,
and Y abode there bysidis the kyng of
-- --
Persis.
14 Forsothe Y came for to teche
thee, what thingis ben to cummynge to
thi peple in the last days; for &yogh;it the
visioun is deferrid, or drawen alonge,
in to days.
15 And whann he spac to me
siche maner wordis, Y keste doun my
cheer to the erthe, and was stille.
16 And
lo! as the licnesse of the sone of man
touchide my lippis; and Y opnynge my
mouth spac, and saide to hym that stode
byfore me, My Lord, in thi visioun my
ioyntouris ben vnbounden, and no thing
of strengthis aboden in me.
17 And how
may the seruaunt of my Lord speke with
my Lord? no thing of strengthis aboode
in me, bot and my brethe is closid bitwixe,
or stoppide.
18 Therfore eftsoone as
the si&yogh;t of man touchide me, and coumfortide
me,
19 and saide, Nyl thou dreede,
thou man of desyrs; pees to thee, be thou
coumfortid, and be thou strong. And
whann he spac with me, Y waxe stronge,
and saide, Speke thou, my Lord, for and
thou hast coumfortide me.
20 And he saith,
Wher thou wast, whi Y came to thee?
And now Y shal turne a&yogh;ein, for to fi&yogh;t
a&yogh;einus the prince of Persis. Forsothe
whann Y wente out, the prince of Greekis
apeeride cummynge.
21 Nethelese Y shal
telle to thee, what thing is expressid in
the wrytyng of trewthe; and no man is
myn helper in alle these thingis, no bot
Mi&yogh;hel, &yogh;our prince.
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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