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A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...

Poule ande Silas 1lowtande vnto God loued hym1 [1-1 honoured & preysed god S.P.D.] in alle his sonde, ande þoo þat wore in kepynge in þo prisone harde hem; [verse 26] ande sodenly was [S folio 114b] made a grete erþe-schake, so myche þat þo grownde of þo prisone stired [quoke S.P.] . [& onone wore opun alle þo dores & alle þer bondes wore lowsed.] [S.P.D.] [verse 27] Ande he [om. S.P.] þat kepped þo prisone, [whanne he saw þo ȝhates opun of þo prisone,] [S.P.D.] drowe oute a swerde, ande wolde haue slayne hymseluen, supposande þat alle þo prisons wore gone oute. [verse 28] Ande Poule cried vnto [to S.P.D.] hym wiþ a grete voyce [a leaf missing in D, chapp. xvi. 28-xvii. 6.] ande saide, Do þe no harme [noon arme P.] : for we alle ben here. [verse 29] Ande he toke lyghte, ande enterde into þo prisone, ande quakande he felle [verse 30] downe to þe fete of Poule ande Silas; ande he [om. P.] broghte hem forþe ande saide, Leue lordes, whatte bihoues me forto [to S.P.] do þat I myghte be saufe? [verse 31] Ande þei saide vnto [to S.P.] hym, Trowe in oure Lorde Iesu, ande þow schal be saufe ande al þi howse. [verse 32] Ande þei preched vnto [to S.P.] hym þo worde of God ande to alle þat wore in his howse. [verse 33] Ande þo kepar of þo prisone toke hem in þo same houre of þo nyghte, ande wesche [wosche S.] þer wondes; ande onone he was baptised, ande alle [om. S.P.] hise howse alsso. [verse 34] Ande efter þat he hade broghte hem into hise howse, he sette a [C folio 50] borde to hem, ande he [om. S.P.] was gladed wiþ alle [his] [his S. at his P.] house, trowande to God. [verse 35] Ande whanne daye [þe day S. þat d. P; erasure of 4 letters before daye, C.] was comen þo magistrates sente baylys (or, bedels), sayande [s. þat P.] , Late þoo men goo. & þo kepar of þo prisone tolde þis vnto [om. P. to S.] Poule, þat [verse 36] þo magistrates han sende þat ȝe ben laten go: ande þerfore gos nowe forþe in pees. [verse 37] Ande Poule saide to hem, Þei hauen beten vs 17vnrightly ande vndampned17 [17-17 opynlyche & indempnyd S.P.] , ande we ben men of Rome [þat þei haue putte in prisone] [S.P.] , ande [ande now S.P.] priuely þei [verse 38] putte vs oute; noghte so, bot come þei hemseluen [S folio 115] ande putte þei vs oute. Ande þo bedels (or, þo baylyes) [gloss om. S.P.] tolde þise wordes to þo magistrates: ande þo [om. S.] magistrates, whanne [verse 39] þei harden þat þei wore Romaynes, dredde hem; ande come
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