The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,

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Oxford,: University press,

1850.

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"The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AFZ9170.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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[Prologue on the book of Judges.]

THIS book of Judicum makith mencioun, how the sones of Israel braken the boond of the Lord, and serueden aliene goddis, after the deeth of Josue, and of elder men that lyueden long tyme after the deeth of Josue, whiche hadden seyn the merueilis and grete dedis of the Lord, and othere men risen aftirward, whiche herden the comaundementis and domes of the Lord and diden alle thingis contrarie. Wherfore the Lord bitook hem in to the hondis of her enemyes, and weren maad tributaries to hem, and serueden hem; and whanne thei weren turmentid and angwischid greetli, thei crieden to the Lord; and he herde hem, and sente iugis, that is, domesmen, whiche delyuereden hem for a tyme, til thei eftsone hadden forȝete the Lord. And therfore the Lord lefte enemyes to hem, whiche thei myȝten not distrie, to punsche hem, whanne thei wenten awei fro the Lord, and fro hise comaundementis [This Prologue is from M.] .