A   Th&ebar; Tobias called his sonne vnto him ∧ sayde: What maye we geue this holy man, that wente with the? Tobias answered his father and sayde: Father, what rewarde shal we geue him? Or what thinge can deserue his benefites? He hath bene my gyde, and brought me safe agayne: he receaued the money from Gabelus, he

caused me to get my wife, he droue the euell sprete from her, he hath bene occasi&obar; of gladnesse to hir father and mother: he delyuered me, that I was not deuoured of the fish, he hath made the to se the light of heauen, yee we all haue receaued greate good of him. How shulde we worthely deserue these thinges vnto him? But I praye the my father, that thou wilt desyre him, yf happlie he wil voutsafe, to take with him the half of all that we haue brought.

B   So the father and the sonne called him, toke him asyde, and beganne to praye him, that he wolde be content to take in good worth, the half parte of all that they had brought. Then sayde he secretly vnto them: Prayse þe; God of heauen, and geue thankes vnto him before all men lyuynge, for he hath shewed his mercy ^note vnto vs. It is good to hyde the Kynges secrete, but to shew and to prayse þe; workes of God, it is an honorable thinge. Prayer is good with fastinge, and to geue allmes is better, ^note then to hoorde vp treasures of golde. For allmes delyuereth from death, clenseth synne, and causeth to fynde euerlastinge life, But they that do synne and vnrighteousnes, are þe; enemies of their owne soules.

C    ^noteWherfore I tell you the trueth, and wyll hyde nothinge from you. Whan thou praydest with teares, and burydest the deed, and leftest thy dyner, and hyddest the deed in thy house vpon the daye tyme, that thou mightest burye them in the night, I offred thy prayer before the LORDE. And because thou wast accepte and beloued of God, it was necessary, that tentacion shulde trye the. ^noteAnd now hath the LORDE sent me to heale the, and to delyuer Sara þi; sonnes wife from the euell sprete. For I am Raphael an angell, one of the seuen that stonde before God.

D   Wh&abar; they herde this, they were sore afrayed, and trembled, and fell downe vpon their faces vnto the grounde. Then sayde the angell: Peace be with you, feare not. Where as I haue bene &wt; you, it is the will of God, geue prayse and thankes vnto him.

^noteYou thought that I dyd eate and drinke with you, but I vse meate that is invisible, and drynke that can not be sene of men.

Now therfore is þe; tyme that I must turne agayne, vnto him that sent me: but be ye thankfull vnto God, and tell out all his wonderous workes.

And whan he had spoken these wordes, he was taken awaye out of their sight, so þt; they sawe him nomore. Then fell they downe flat vpon their faces by the space of thre houres, and praysed God: and whan they rose vp, they tolde all his w&obar;derous workes.

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