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 Ruth.]

THIS book of Ruth schewith the feithfulnesse and stidefast loue of this wumman Ruth to the moder of her hosebonde, after the deeth of her hosebonde and sones, turnynge aȝen fro the lond of Moab in to Bethleem of Juda; wherfor God dide merci to Ruth, and sche was weddid to Booz, a wurthi man of Bethleem, and is rekened in the genologie of Dauith and of Crist [This prologue is from M.] .