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

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The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books,
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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 21, 2025.

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CAP. XIII.

[verse 1] As forsothe euetid [euentide AH.] is do, his seruauns heȝeden to ther herbergeries; and Vagio closide the dores of the priue chaumbre, and wente. [verse 2] Forsothe alle weren ouer|trauailid [verse 3] of win; and Judit was alone in the priue chaumbre. [verse 4] But Olofernes lai in the bed, with to myche drunk|enesse aslepe. [verse 5] And Judit seide to hir child womman, that she shulde stonde with oute forthe befor the dore of the priue chaumbre, and waiten aboute. [verse 6] And Judit stod befor the bed, preȝende with teres, and with moouyng of lippis in

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[verse 7] silence, seiende, Conferme me, Lord God of Irael, and behold in this hour to the werkis of myn hondis, that thou rere vp thi cite Jerusalem, as thou hast behoten; and that, that I leeuende to moun be don bi thee thoȝte, I parforme. [verse 8] And whan that she hadde seid, she wente to the piler that was at the hed of his bed, and his swerd, that in it bounden heeng [hangede EF.] , she losede. [verse 9] And whan she hadde drawen it out, she toc the her of his hed, and seith, Conferme me, God of Irael, in this hour. [verse 10] And she smot twies in to his haterel, and she cutte of his hed; and she toc awei his canope fro the pileris, and she turnede out his body behedid [beheueded AEFH.] . [verse 11] And after a litil while she wente out, and toc the hed of Olofernes to hir hand maiden, and comaundede, that she shulde putten it in to hir scrippe. [verse 12] And thei two wenten out after ther vsage as to preȝeere, and thei passeden the tentis, and, goende aboute the valei, camen [thei camen C.] to the ȝate of the cite. [verse 13] And Judit seide aferre to the keperis of the wallis, Openeth the ȝatis, for with vs is God, that dide gret vertue in Irael. [verse 14] And it is do, whan the men hadden herd hir vois, thei clepeden the prestis of the cite. [verse 15] And alle runnen aȝen hir fro the leste to the moste; for thei hopeden hir no mor to be to come. [verse 16] And, teendende liȝtis, alle wenten abouten hir. She forsothe steȝende vp in to an heiȝere place, comaundede to be maad silence. And whan alle hadden holden ther pes, [verse 17] Judit seide, Preiseth the Lord oure God, that forsaketh not men hopende in hym, [verse 18] and in me, his hand womman, hath [he hath A.] ful|fild his merci, that he behiȝte to the hous of Irael, and hath slain in myn hond the enemy of his puple this nyȝt. [verse 19] And bring|ende

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forth of the scrippe the hed of Olo|fernes, shewide to them, seiende, Lo! the hed of Olofernes, prince of the chiualrie of Assiries; and, lo! the canope of hym, in whiche he lai in his drunkinhed, wher and bi the hond of a womman smot hym the Lord our God. [verse 20] Forsothe the Lord God liueth, for his aungil kepte me, and hennus goende, and there dwellende, and thennus hider turnende aȝeen; and the Lord suffride not me his hand womman to be defoulid, but with oute pollucioun of synne hath aȝeen clepid me to ȝou, ioȝende in his victorie, in myn ascaping, in ȝoure deliueraunce. [verse 21] Knoulecheth to hym alle, for good, for in to the world his merci. [verse 22] Alle forsothe, honourende the Lord, seiden to hir, The Lord blesside thee in his vertue, for bi thee to noȝt he hath broȝt oure [his E pr. m.] enemys. [verse 23] But Osias, the prince of the puple of Irael, seide to hir, Blessid thou art, doȝter, of the Lord, the heȝe God, befor alle wymmen vp on erthe. [verse 24] Blessid the Lord, that made he|uene and erthe, and that hath dressid thee in to the woundis of the hed of the [verse 25] prince of oure enemys; for to dai so thi name he hath magnefied, that thi preis|ing go not awei fro the mouth of men, that weren myndeful of the vertue of the Lord in to with oute ende; for the whiche thingus [thing AH.] thou sparedest not to thi lif for anguysshis and tribulaciouns of thi kinrede, but holpedist to the falling befor the siȝte of oure God. [verse 26] And al the puple seide, So be it! so be it! [verse 27] For|sothe Achior clepid cam; and Judit seide to hym, God of Irael, to the whiche wit|nessing thou hast ȝiue, that he be vengid of his enemys, he the hed of alle mys|beleeued men hath hewen of in this nyȝt in myn hond. [verse 28] And that thou preue for

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so it is, lo! the hed of Olofernes, that in the despising of his pride God of Israel dispiside, and to thee deth thratte, sei|ende, Whan the puple of Irael were taken, I shal comaunde with a swerd to stiken hym thurȝ the sides. [verse 29] Seende for|sothe Achior the hed of Olofernes, an|guysht for inward drede, fel in to his face vpon the erthe, and his lif quap|pide. [verse 30] After forsothe that, the spirit taken aȝeen, he is reformed, he fel doun to hir [verse 31] feet, and honourede hir, and seide, Blessid be thou of thi God in al the tabernacle of Jacob; for in alle folc, that hereth thi name, shal be magnefied vp on thee God of Irael.

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