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. XLIV.
1 Preise we gloriouse men, and oure fadris
in her generacioun.
2 The Lord made
myche glorie bi his greet doyng, fro the
world.
3 Grete men in vertu weren lordis
in her poweris, and riche in her prudence;
tellynge in profetis the dignete of profetis,
and comaundynge in present puple,
4
and tellynge hoolieste wordis to puplis, bi
the vertu of prudence.
5 Sekynge maneres
of musik in her childhod note, and tellynge
songis of scripturis.
6 Riche men in vertu,
hauynge the studie of fairnesse, makynge
pees in her housis.
7 Alle these men gaten
glorie in the generaciouns of her folk;
and ben had in preysyngis in her daies.
8 Thei that weren borun of hem, leften a
name to telle the preisyngis of hem.
9 And
summe ben, of whiche is no mynde; thei
perischiden as thei that weren not, and
thei weren borun as not borun; and her
sones perischiden with hem.
10 But also
tho men of mercy ben, whose pitees failiden
not;
11 and good eritage dwellide contynueli
with the seed of hem.
12 And the
seed of her sones sones stood in testament,
13 and the eritage of her sones dwellith
for hem, til in to with outen ende;
the seed of hem, and the glorie of hem,
schal not be forsakun.
14 The bodies of hem
ben biried in pees; and the name of hem
schal lyue in to generaciouns and generaciouns.
15 Puplis tellen the wisdom of hem;
and the chirche tellith the preysyng of
hem.
16 Enok pleside God, and was translatid note
in to paradis, that he &yogh;yue wisdom
to folkis.
17 Noe was foundun parfit and
iust, and he was maad recouncelynge in
the tyme of wrathfulnesse.
18 Therfor residue
seed was left to erthe, whanne the
-- --
greet flood was maad.
19 Testamentis of the
world weren set anentis hym, lest al fleisch
my&yogh;te be doon awei bi the greet flood.
20 Abraham was the greet fadir of the multitude
of folkis; and noon was foundun
lijk hym in glorie note, which kepte the lawe
of hi&yogh; God, and was in the testament
with hym.
21 He made a testament to stonde
in his fleisch; and he was foundun feithful
in temptacioun.
22 Therfor God with
an ooth &yogh;af to hym glorie in his folk;
God made hym to encreesse, as an heep
of erthe,
23 and to enhaunse his seed as
sterris, and to enherite hem fro the see
`til to the see, and fro the flood `til to
the endis of erthe.
24 And to Isaac God dide
in the same maner, for Abraham, his fadir.
25 The Lord &yogh;af to hym the blessing
of alle folkis note; and confermyde his testament
on the heed of Jacob.
26 He knew
hym in hise blessyngis, and &yogh;af eritage to
hym; and departide to hym a part in
twelue lynagis.
27 And he kepte to hym
men of merci, fyndynge grace in the si&yogh;t
of eche man.
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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