Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. VII.
1 `Forsothe thei entriden to Raguel; and
Raguel resseyuede hem with ioie.
2 And
Raguel bihelde Tobie, and seide to Anne,
his wijf, This &yogh;ong man is ful lijk my
sister sone.
3 And whanne he hadde seid
these thingis, he seide, Of whennus ben
&yogh;e, &yogh;onge men, oure britheren? And thei
seiden, We ben of the lynage of Neptalym,
of the caitifte of Nynyue.
4 And Raguel
seide to hem, Knowen &yogh;e Tobi, my
brother? Whiche answeriden, We knowen
him.
5 And `whanne he spak manye good
thingis of Tobie, the aungel seide to Raguel,
Tobie, of whom thou axist, is the
fadir of this man.
6 Thanne Raguel bowede
-- --
doun hym silf, and with teeris he
kisside Tobie, and he wepte on his
necke,
7 and seide, My sone, blessyng be to
thee; for thou art the sone of a good and
`a ful noble man.
8 And Anne, `his wijf,
and Sare, `the dou&yogh;tir of hem, wepten.
9 Forsothe after that thei hadden spoke,
Raguel comaundide a wethir to be slayn,
and a feeste to be maad redi. And whanne
he excitide hem to sitte doun to mete,
Tobie seide,
10 Y schal not ete, nethir drynke
here to dai, no but thou conferme first
myn axyng, and biheete to &yogh;yue to me
Sare, thi dou&yogh;ter.
11 And whanne this word
was herd, Raguel dredde, witynge what
bifelde to tho seuene men; and he bigan
for to drede, lest perauenture it
schulde bifalle in lijk maner to this Tobie.
And whanne he doutide, and &yogh;af noon
answere to the axere,
12 the aungel seide to
hym, Nyle thou drede to &yogh;yue hir to this
man; for thi dou&yogh;ter `is due wiyf to this
man dredynge God; therfor another man
my&yogh;te not haue hir.
13 Thanne Raguel seide,
Y doute not, that God hath resseyued my
preieris and teeris in his si&yogh;t.
14 And Y
bileue, that herfor the Lord made &yogh;ou
come to me, that also this womman
schulde be ioyned to her kynrede bi the
lawe of Moises; and now nyle thou bere
doute, that Y schal &yogh;yue hir to thee.
15 And he took the ri&yogh;t hond of his dou&yogh;ter,
and &yogh;af to the ri&yogh;t hond of Tobie, and
seide, God of Abraham, and God of Isaac,
and God of Jacob, be with &yogh;ou, and he
ioyne &yogh;ou togidere, and `he fille his blessyng
in &yogh;ou.
16 And whanne a chartere
`was takun, thei maden `writyng togidere
of the mariage.
17 And aftir these
thingis thei eten, and blessiden God.
18 And
Raguel clepide to hym Anne, his wijf,
and comaundide hir to make redi another
-- --
bed.
19 And sche ledde Sare, hir dou&yogh;tir, in
to it, and sche wepte; and Anne seide to
hir, My dou&yogh;ter, be thou of strong wit;
the Lord of heuene &yogh;yue to thee ioie, for
the anoie that thou suffridist.
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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