P068 A Short History of the English Bible.

P068 A Short History of the English Bible.

3. Salus Animɶ, or "Sowlehele," about 1225. See page 18.

Mary at the Cross. Our ladi and hire sustur stoden under the roode, And seint John, and Marie Magdeleyn with wel sori moode Ur Ladi biheold hire sweete son ibrouht in gret pyne, For monnes gultes nouthen her and nothing for myne.

Marie weop wel sore, and bitter teres leet, The teres fullen uppon the ston doun at hire feet.(1) 4. Richard Rolle, of Hampole, about 1325. See page 18. The Twenty-third Psalm. Our lord gouerneth me ud nothynge to me shal wante; stede of pasture thar he me sette. In the water of the hetyng forth he me brougte; my soule he turnyde.

He ladde me on the stretis of rygtwisuesse: for his name. For win gif I hadde goo in myddil of the shadewe of deeth; I shal not dreede yueles, for thou art with me.

Thi geerde and thi staf; thei haue coumfortid me. Thou hast greythid in my sygt a bord; agens hem that angryn me.

Thou fattide myn heued in oyle; and my chalys drunken-gug what is cleer. And thi mercy shal folewe me; in alle the days of my lyf. And that I wone in the hous of oure lord in the lengthe of dayes.(2) 5. Wycliffe, 1380. See page 19.

Matt, vi, 24-25. No man may serue to two lordis, forsothe outher he schal hate the toon and loue the tother, outher he schal susteyne the toon, and dispise the tother. Yee mowne not serve to god and richessis. Therefore I seye to you, that yee be not bisie to your liif what yee schulen ete, other to youre body with what yee schulen be clothide. Wher youre liif is not more than mete, and youre body more than clooth?(3)

------------ (FN1)Stroughton, p. 12.

(FN2)Baber,"Historical Account," etc., in his Wycliffe’s New Testament, Preface, p. lxvii.

(FN3)Lea Wilson’s "Wycliffe’s Testament," in loco.

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