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 And Jonas was tourmentid with grete
tourment, and was wrooth.
2 And he preiede
to the Lord, and saide, Lord, Y biseche,
wher this is not my word, whanne
Y was &yogh;it in my lond? For this thing Y
before ocupiede, for to flee in to Tharsis;
forsothe Y wote, for thou, God, art meke
and mercyful, pacient, and of myche mercy
doynge, and for&yogh;euynge on malice.
3 And
now, Lord, Y preye, take my soule, or
lijf, fro me; for deeth is beter to me than
lyf.
4 And the Lord saide, Gessist thou,
wher thou art wel wroth?
5 And Jonas
wente out of the cytee, and sate a&yogh;einus
the eest, and made to hym a shadewyng
place there; and sate vndre it in shadewe,
til he saw&yogh; what byfelle to the citee.
6 And the Lord God made redy an eder,
or a plaunt, and it styede vp on the
hed of Jonas, that shadewe wer on his
hed, and keuerde hym; forsothe he hadde
traueilid. And Jonas gladid on the eder,
with grete gladnesse.
7 And God made
redy a worme, in styinge vp of grey day
in to morew; and smote the eder, and it
dryede vp.
8 And whan the sunne was
sprungen, the Lord comaundide to the
hote wynd and brennynge; and the sunne
smote on the hed of Jonas, and he swalide.
And he axide to his soule that he
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shulde dye, and saide, It is beter to me
for to dye, than for to lyue.
9 And the
Lord saide to Jonas, Gessist thou, wher
thou art wel wroth on the eder? And
he saide, Y am wel wrothe, vn to the
deth.
10 And the Lord saide, Thou art
sorie on the eder, in whiche thou traueylidist
not, nether thou madist that it
wexide, the whiche was born vnder oo
ni&yogh;t, and in oo ni&yogh;t perishide.
11 And shal
Y not spare to the grete citee Nynyue,
in whiche ben more than a hundred and
twenti thousand of men, whiche witen
not what is bitwix her ri&yogh;t half and left,
and many werk beestis?
Here endith the book of Jonas, and
bigynneth the book of Micheas.
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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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