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Show EUNG LUICS ' L Of the following verfion of the gofpels the ag is not certainly known but it was probably writ ten between the time of Alfred and that of the Nor man conqueft, and therefore may properly be in {erted here Tranflations feldom afford juft fpecimens of language, and leaft of all thofe in which a fcrupube ' lous and verbal interpretation is endeavoured caufe they retain the phrafeology and ftructure o L U being tranflate i difficrent ages, affords opportunity of marking th gradations of change, and bringing one age int comparifon with another. For this purpofe I hav placed the Saxon verfion and that of Wickliffe, writ.ten about the year 1380, in oppofite columns, becaufe the convenience of eafy collation feems greate than that of regular chronology pppace penay prpon [op-pyligoe ppom ppuma [m18] envebyponeyye pprca Theophiluy boh‘cpum OF Kapone PE pEy €lizabech : Abian Tune buc an h}'rp pihtpire bepopa 1= Looe. 33:1;%&1106 on eallum hiy bebooum 4 pubcppohce: buca PT7 YI;;rrmb' hig nxgbo nen beapn . €lizabech pzy unbepenve . buzu gop@d-eovun: poppa B 7 hy on hypa Dagu 8 8otlice pxy zepopben pa Zachapiay hyy yacepohavey bpeac on hiy geppixley envebyponery » bepopan Liooe gepuna pxr racepohaocer hlocey . he eove P he hy orppunge yecce. Va h . Liovey Tempel ecoe o €all pepoo pey ]colcer pey uce gebl‘obcfnb on paepe; OFFpung cTiman : 11 Pa ®cypoe him Dpbcney engel rranoenv on pey peopodey yprdpan healpe 12 Da peap Zachapuay zeopered $ gere " onve. 5 him exe onhpear 13 Pa cpxd ye engel im co N the dayes of Eroude kyng of Judee ther was preft Zacarye by name : of the fort of Abia, an his wyf was of the doughtris of Aaron: and hi name was Elizabeth 2 An bothe weren jufte bifore God goynge i alle the maundementis and juftifyingis of the Lor withouten playnt 3 And thei hadden no child,. for Elizabeth wa bareyn and bothe weren of greet age in her dayes 4 An it bifel that whanne Zacarye fchould d 6 An out fort 7. An and ftoo at the multitude of the puple was withand preyede in the our of encenfying an aungel of the Lord apperide to him on the right half of the auter of en the office of ‘prefthod in the ordir of his courfe t fore God 5 Aftir the cuftom of the prefthod, he went forth by lot and entride into the temple te encenfen cenfe 8 And Zacarye feynge was afrayed: and dred fel upon him e Zachapuay. poppam pin ben 1y gehypeo. pin piy €lizabeth pe yunu cenS. and pu nemy 9 And the aungel fayde to him, Zacarye dred thou not: for thy preier is herd, and Elizabet thi wif fchal bere to thee a fone: and his name {cha hy be clepid Jon Ne onopzo p naman Iohannery 14 7 he by® pe c gerean 4 <o blyre. ‘manega on hyy acennedneyye gepagniad:15 808lice he byS mape bepopan Dpihtne and he ne oS pin ne beop. 7 he bid zerylle 'on haligum Dapce. ponne gy o hiy movop in ‘nofie.x Irpahela beapng he zecypd c And maneg 1 Dpuhcne bypa E%be;.fl 17 An cynincgey. pe [ude 10 .And joye and gladyng fchal be to thee : an manye {chulen have joye i 11 For he {chal be grea he {chal not drinke wyn n fulfild with the holy goft yi his natyvyte bifore the Lord: an {ydyr, and ke fchal b of his modir wombe 12 And he fchal converte manye of the childre of {rgel to her Liord God 1 An ovagu 6 8odlice hix pxpo 1 book hic or ppymB yum yaceprd on naman Zachapuay. 9 AEpte fam e 5 On Pepove th uy gepyl 4 Pzt pu oncnape papa popoa yolrzyTneyye } op pam Be pu zelepeo eapc: irneryu tha _ Zeyrapon. and prep 3 We gepuht ' zeopnlice eallum i Be. pu e yeluyc I nam venience LUK, Cuar pe o pa 2 8pa up betmhcu hl]" PI ArGTE the original tongue; yet they have often this con o Cupyil pinga pace ge-enovebypoa leve yync pe prcodlice manega pohcon pap FOR'DKC N |