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 15, 2025.

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[Prologue on the First book of Maccabees [This Prologue is from M.] .]

THIS book of Machabeis techith alle men, bi ensaumple of Matatias and of hise sones, to stonde in tyme of persecucioun stifli bi the lawe of God, and rathere to leue alle worldli goodis and bodili lijf, than to feyne, or peruerte in to errour, for the drede of heiȝ power of men; as Judas Machabeus and hise brethren ouer|camen her enemyes, bi heiȝ vertu of God, with fewe men, and not in multitude of peple, and aȝenstoden kingis and princes, and hadden victorie bi the help of almyȝti God, and susteyneden it anoon to the deeth.

Here endith the prologe, and here bigynneth the firste book of Machabeis.