In the hundrid &yogh;eer and foure and fourtithe, the fiftenthe day of the moneth Sandici, 1   these couenauntis maad, Lisias wente to the kyng; forsothe Jewis &yogh;auen werk to erthe tiliyng. 2   Bot these that dwelten, or wern resident, Tymothe, and Appollonye, sone of Genney, bot and Jerom, and Demophon proud, and Nychanore, Cipriarchis, or prince of Cipre, suffriden not hem for to do in silence and quyet. 3   Forsothe men of Joppyn han don siche a felony; thei preyeden Jewis, with whiche thei dwelten, for to stye vp smale bootis, whiche thei hadden maad redy, with wyues, and sones, as noon enmytees amonge hem vndirliggynge. 4   Forsothe after the commoun dom of the citee, and hem acordynge, and for cause of pees, and hauynge no thing suspect, whan thei camen in to deep, thei drenchiden two hundrid, not lesse. 5   Whiche cruelte as Judas knew&yogh; don in to men of his folc, he comaundide to men that weren with hym; and, inclepid the iust domesman God, 6   he came a&yogh;ein slears of bretheren; and sothely by ni&yogh;t brente the hauen, he brente the bootis, forsothe he slew&yogh; by swerd hem that fledden fro fijre. 7   Whan he hadde don thus these thingus, he wente awey, as eft to turnyng a&yogh;ein, and vtterly to distruye alle men of Joppe. 8   Bot whan he knew&yogh;, and hem that weren at Jamnie to wilne for to do liche manere to Jewis dwellynge with hem, 9   and to Jamnites he aboue came by ni&yogh;t, and brente the hauen, with shippis;

so that the li&yogh;t apperide to Jerusalem fro two hundrid furlongis and fourty. 10   Whan now they hadden gon thennus by nyne furlongis, and maden iourney to Tymothe, men of Arabye ioynyden with hym, fyue thousand men, and horsmen fyue hundrid. 11   And whan stronge fi&yogh;te was maad, and by help of God wente, or byfelle, esily, or by prosperitee, the residue of men of Arabye axiden of Judas the ri&yogh;thondis for to be &yogh;ouen to hem; byheetynge hem self to &yogh;euynge lesewis, and other thingis to profityng. 12   Forsothe Judas demynge verrely hem profitable in many thingis, bihi&yogh;te pees; and, the ri&yogh;thondis taken, thei departiden to her tabernaclis. 13   Forsothe he assailide and sume sad citee by bryggis, and about sett by wallis, whiche was enhabitid of cumpanyes of heithen men meynd, bothe men and wymmen, to whom the name Casphym. 14   Forsothe these that weren with ynne, tristinge in stablenesse of wallis, and in aparel of fodis, diden slowlicher, to terynge, or terrynge, Judas with cursyngis; and blasfemynge, and spekynge whiche thingus is not leeful. 15   Sothely Machabeus, ynclepide the grete prince of the world, whiche with outen wetheris, that ben engynes lijk to wetheris, and with outen engynes, in tymes of Jhesu, or Josue, castide doun Jerico, he hurlide feersly to the wallis; 16   and the citee taken by wille of the Lord, he dide vnnoumbreable sleayngis; so that the pool of stondynge water of two furlongis of breede infect, or meynd, with blood was seen to flowe. 17   Fro thennus thei wenten seuen hundreth and fifty furlongis, and camen in to Caracha, to the Jewis that ben clepid Tubianey. 18   And sothely thei cau&yogh;ten not Tymothe in tho places; and no need fully don, he turnyde a&yogh;ein, most sad strengthe left in sume

place. 19   Forsothe Dositheus and Sosipater, that weren duykis with Machabeus, slewen ten thousand men left of Tymothe in the strengthe. 20   And Machabeus sixe thousand ordeynyd aboute hym, and ordeynd by cumpanyes, wenten forth a&yogh;einus Tymothe, hauynge an hundrid `and fyue and twenty thousand of foot men, and of horsmen two thousand and fyue hundrid. 21   Forsothe the cummyng of Judas knowen, Tymothe bifore sente wymmen, and sonys, and other aparel in to a strengthe that is said Carmon; forsothe it was `vnable to be ouercummen, and hard in goynge to, for streytnesse of places. 22   And whan the first cumpaignye of Judas appeeride, dreed is ynsmyten to the enmyes of the presence of God, that biholdith alle thingis; and thei ben turnyd in to fli&yogh;t, an other fro an other, so that they weren cast doun of her own more, and with strookis of her swerdis thei weren feblid. 23   Judas sothely a&yogh;einstode gretely, punyshynge vnholy men, and he keste doun of hem thritty thousand men. 24   Thymothe sothely felle in to the partis of Dositheus and Sosipatris; and he axide by many preyers, that he were delyuerd quyck; for that he hadde fadris, and moderis, and bretheren, `manye of Jewis, whom it shulde byfalle for to be disceyued by his deth. 25   And whan he hadde &yogh;ouen feith, hym to restorynge hem after thing ordeynd, thei dismittiden hym vnhurt, for helthe of bretheren. 26   Forsothe Judas turnyde a&yogh;ein fro Carmon, slayn fyue and twenti thousandis. 27   After the fli&yogh;t of these and deeth, he mouede the oost to Effron, a stronge citee, in whom the multitude of diuerse folc dwelte; and stronge &yogh;unge men, stondynge togidre for wallis, strongly fou&yogh;ten a&yogh;einus; forsothe in this weren

manye engynys, and appareils of dartis. 28   Bot whan thei hadden inclepid the Almi&yogh;ty, that by his power brekith togidre the mi&yogh;tis of enmyes, thei token the citee, and castiden doun of hem that weren with ynne fyue and twenty thousand. 29   Fro thennus thei wenten to the citee of Scitis, whiche was fer fro Jerusalem sixe hundrid furlongis. 30   Forsothe witnessinge these Jewis that weren anentis Scitopolistis, that thei weren had of hem benignly, &yogh;he, in tymys of aduersite, and that thei diden myldly with hem, 31   thei doynge thankyngis to hem, and also stirynge fro hennus forth for to be benigne a&yogh;einus her kyne, camen to Jerusalem, the solempne day of weekis nei&yogh;inge. 32   And after Pentecost, thei wenten a&yogh;eins Gorgias, prepoost of Ydume. 33   Sothely he wente out with thre thousand fote men, and foure hundrid horsmen; 34   whiche gon to gidre, it befelle a fewe of Jewis for to falle. 35   Forsothe Dositheus, sum horsman of Bachenoris, a stronge man, heelde Gorgias; and whan he wolde take hym quyck, sum horsman of Tracis felle vpon hym, and kitte of his shuldre, and so Gorgias flei&yogh; in to Maresame. 36   And hem that weren with Hesdrym lengre fi&yogh;tynge, and maad wery, Judas inclepide the Lord, helper, and duyk of bateil, for to be maad benigne, 37   with cuntree voice, and with ympnys reisynge crye, smote fli&yogh;t to kni&yogh;tis of Gorgias. 38   Forsothe Judas, the oost gadrid, came in to the citee Odollam; and whan the seuenthe day aboue came, thei after custom clensid, in the place diden saboth. 39   And in the suynge day Judas came with his, for to take awey the bodies of men cast doun, and for to putte with fadris, and modris, in sepulcris of fadris. 40   Forsothe thei founden vndir cootis of slayn men, of the &yogh;iftis of ydolis that weren at Jamniam, fro whom the lawe forbedith Jewis; therfore it is maad knowen to alle men,

for this cause hem for to haue fallen. 41   And so alle blessiden the iust dom of the Lord, whiche maad priuy thingus knowen. 42   And so thei conuertid to preyers, preyeden, that thilk trespas that was don, were bitaken to for&yogh;etyng. 42   And sothely the strengist Judas monestide the peple, for to keepe hem with out synne, vnder ee&yogh;en seeynge, what thingus ben don for synnys of hem that ben cast doun. 43   And collacioun, or spekinge to gidre maad, he sente twelue thousand dragmes of syluer to Jerusalem, for to be offrid sacrifice for synnes of dead men, wele and religiously bythenkynge of a&yogh;ein rysyng; 44   sothely &yogh;if he hopide not, hem that fellen to rysynge a&yogh;ein, it was seen superflue and veyne for to preye for dead men; 45   and for he biheelde, that thei that token slepynge, or deth, with pitee, hadden best grace kept. 46   Therfore holy and helthful thenkynge is, for to preye for dead men, that thei be vnbounden fro synnus.

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