Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XII.
Iudith is brought into Holofernes treasurehouse, 2. hath leaue to abstaine
from the Gentils meates, 5. and to goe forth in the night to pray. 10. The
fourth day she cometh to Holofernes banket; 16, he is taken with concuspiscence,
and drinketh very much wine.
1 Then he bad her goe in where his treasures were layd
vp, and bad her tarie there, and he appoynted what
should be geuen her of his owne banket.
2 To whom Iudith
answered, and said: Now note I can not eate of these thinges,
which thou commandest to be geuen me, lest there come
displeasure vpon me: but I wil eate of these thinges, which
I haue brought.
3 To whom Holofernes said: If these thinges
which thou hast brought with thee shal fayle thee, what
shal we doe to thee.
4 And Iudith said: Thy soule liueth my
lord, that thy handmayde shal not spend al these thinges, til
God doe by my hand these thinges, which I haue purposed.
And his seruantes brought her into the tabernacle, which he
had commanded.
5 And whiles she went in, she desired that
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she might haue licence to goe forth, in the night and before
day to prayer, and to besech our Lord.
6 And he commanded
his chamberlaynes, that as it pleased her, she should goe out
& come in to adore her God for three dayes.
7 And she went
forth in the nightes into the vale of Bethulia, and washed her
self in a fountaine of water.
8 And as she came vp, she prayed
our Lord the God of Israel, that he would direct her way to
the deliuerie of his people.
9 And going in, she remayned
note pure in the tabernacle, vntil she tooke her owne meate in
the euening.
10 And it came to passe in the fourth day, Holofernes
made a supper to his seruantes, and sayd to Vagao his
eunuch: Goe, and perswade that Hebrew woman, that she
consent of her owne accord to dwel with me.
11 For it is a
foule thing with the Assyrians, if a woman mocke a man in
doing, that she passe free from him.
12 Then Vagao went in to
Iudith, & said: Let not the good note yong maide feare to goe in
to my Lord, that she may be honoured before his face, that
she may eate with him and drinke wine in ioyfulnes.
13 To
whom Iudith answered: Who am I, that I should gaynesay my
lord?
14 Al that shal be good and best before his eies, wil I doe.
And whatsoeuer shal please him, that shal be best to me al
the dayes of my life.
15 And she arose, and decked herself with
her garmentes, and going in she stood before his face.
16 And
the hart of Holofernes was strooken: for he burnt in the concupiscence
of her.
17 And Holofernes said to her: Drinke now,
and sit downe in ioyfulnes, because thou hast found grace before
me.
18 And Iudith said: I wil drinke my lord, because my
soule is magnified this day aboue al my dayes.
19 And she
tooke, and did eate, and dranke before him those thinges,
which her handmayde had prepared her.
20 And Holofernes
was made pleasant toward her, and dranke wine exceeding
much, so much as he had neuer drunke in his life?
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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