¶ The frydaye next folowynge. The epistle.
AT that tyme Ioseph sayde vnto his brother. Heare I praye you a dreame* 1.1 that I dreamed. Beholde we ware ma∣kynge of sheues in the feld: and se / my sheffe arose and stode vpright / and youre sheues sto¦de rounde aboute & made an obeysance vnto my sheffe. Then sayde his brethren vnto him what shalt thou be oure kynge / or shalt thou raynge ouer vs? And they hated him the mo∣re for his dreame and for his wordes. And he dreamed yet another dreame and tolde it his brethren. And he sayd: beholde / I dreamed yet another dreame / Me thought the sonne and the mone and eleuen starres dyd worship me. And when he had tolde it his father and his brethren / his father rebuked him and sayde vnto him: what meaneth this dreame which thou hast dreamed? shall I come and thy mo¦ther and thy brethren and fall before the on the grounde? And though his brethren hated him: yet his father kept the thynge in mynde. And when his brethren were gone to pasture their fathers shepe at Sichem / Israell sayde to Ioseph: do not thy brethren fede the shepe at Sichem? come that I maye sende y• to thē And he sayde: here am I. And he sayde: go go∣od sonne and se whether it be well with thy brethren and with the shepe / and brynge me