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. VI.
1 It pleside Darius, and he ordeynede sixe
score duykis ouer the rewme, that thei
schulden be in al his rewme.
2 And ouer
hem he ordeynede thre princes, of whiche
Danyel was oon; that the duykis schulden
&yogh;elde resoun to hem, and that the kyng
schulde not suffre ony disese.
3 Therfor
Danyel ouercam alle the princes and
duikis, for more spirit of God was in
hym.
4 Certis the kyng thou&yogh;te to ordeyne
hym on al the rewme. Wherfor princes
and duikis sou&yogh;ten to fynde occasioun to
Danyel, of the side of the kyng; and thei
mi&yogh;ten fynde no cause and suspicioun, for
he was feithful, and no blame and suspicioun
was foundun in hym.
5 Therfor tho
men seiden, We schulen not fynde ony
occasioun to this Danyel, no but in hap
in the lawe of his God.
6 Thanne the
princes and duykis maden fals suggestioun
to the kyng, and spaken thus to
hym, Kyng Darius, lyue thou with onten
ende.
7 Alle the princes of thi rewme, and
magistratis, and duykis, senatours, and
iugis, han maad a counsel, that a decree
and comaundement of the emperour go
out, that ech man that axith ony axyng
of what euer god and man, til to thretti
daies, no but of thee, thou kyng, he be
sent in to the lake of liouns.
8 Now therfor,
kyng, conferme thou the sentence, and
write thou the decree, that this that is
ordeyned of Medeis and Perseis be not
chaungid, nethir be it leueful to ony man
to breke.
9 Forsothe Darius, the kyng, settide
forth, and confermyde the decree.
10 And
whanne Danyel hadde founde this thing,
that is, the lawe ordeyned, he entride in
to his hous; and the while the wyndows
weren open in his soler a&yogh;ens Jerusalem, in
thre tymes in the dai he bowide hise
knees, and worschipide, and knoulechide
bifore his God, as he was wont to do bifore.
11 Therfor tho men enqueriden ful bisili, and
-- --
founden Danyel preiynge, and bisechynge
his God.
12 And thei nei&yogh;iden and spaken
to the kyng of the comaundement, Kyng,
whether thou ordeynedist not, that ech man
that axide ony of goddis and of men, til
to thretti daies, no but thee, thou kyng,
he schulde be sent in to the lake of liouns?
To whiche men the kyng answeride, and
seide, The word is soth, bi the decree of
Medeis and Perseis, which it is not leueful
to breke.
13 Thanne thei answeriden,
and seiden bifore the kyng, Danyel, of the
sones of caitifte of Juda, reckide not of
thi lawe, and of the comaundement, which
thou ordeynedist, but thre tymes bi the
dai he preieth in his bisechyng.
14 And
whanne the kyng hadde herd this word,
he was sori ynow, and he settide the herte
for Danyel, for to do delyuere hym; and
til to the goyng doun of the sunne he trauelide
for to do delyuere hym.
15 But tho
men vndurstoden the kyng, and seiden to
hym, Wite thou, kyng, that it is the lawe
of Medeis and of Perseis, that it is not
leueful that ony decree be chaungid,
16 which
the kyng ordeyneth. Thanne the kyng
comaundide, and thei brou&yogh;ten Danyel,
and senten hym in to the lake of liouns.
And the kyng seide to Danyel, Thi God,
whom thou worschipist euere, he schal
delyuere thee.
17 And o stoon was brou&yogh;t,
and was put on the mouth of the lake,
which the kyng aselide with his ryng,
and with the ryng of hise beste men, lest
ony thing were don a&yogh;ens Danyel.
18 Thanne
the kyng &yogh;ede in to his hous, and slepte
with out soper, and metis weren not
brou&yogh;te bifore hym; ferthermore and sleep
&yogh;ede awei fro hym.
19 Thanne the kyng roos
in the firste morewtid, and &yogh;ede hastili to
the lake of liouns;
20 and he nei&yogh;ide to the
lake, and criede on Danyel with wepynge
vois, and spak to hym, Danyel, the seruaunt
of God lyuynge, gessist thou, whether
thi God, whom thou seruest euere,
mi&yogh;te delyuere thee fro liouns?
21 And
-- --
Danyel answeride the kyng, and seide,
King, lyue thou with outen ende.
22 My
God sente his aungel, and closide togidere
the mouthis of liouns, and tho noieden
not me, for ri&yogh;tfulnesse is foundun in me
bifore hym; but also, thou kyng, Y dide
no trespas bifore thee.
23 Thanne the kyng
made ioie greetli on hym, and comaundide
Danyel to be led out of the lake. And
Danyel was led out of the lake, and noon
hirtyng was foundun in hym, for he bileuede
to his God.
24 Forsothe the kyng
comaundide, tho men, that accusiden
Danyel, weren brou&yogh;t, and weren sent in
to the lake of liouns, thei, and the sones
of hem, and the wyues of hem; and thei
camen not `til to the pawment of the lake,
til the liouns rauyschiden hem, and al to-braken
alle the boonys of hem.
25 Thanne
Darius, the kyng, wroot to alle puplis,
lynagis, and langagis, dwellynge in al erthe,
Pees be multiplied to &yogh;ou.
26 Therfor a decree
is ordeyned of me, that in al myn
empire and rewme men tremble, and drede
the God of Danyel; for he is God lyuynge,
and euerlastynge in to worldis, and his
rewme schal not be distried, and his power
is `til in to with outen ende.
27 He is delyuerer
and sauyour, makynge myraclis and
merueils in heuene and in erthe, which
delyuerede Danyel fro the lake of liouns.
28 Certis Danyel dwellide stabli `til to the
rewme of Darius, and `til to the rewme
of Sirus of Persey.
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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