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On Christmas Eve, sit down with your family and experience an evening of
translation.

John Wycliffe Bible

 

Luke CAP 2

1 And it was don in tho daies, a maundement wente out fro the emperour
August, that al the world schulde be discryued.

2 This firste discryuyng was maad of Cyryn, iustice of Sirie.

3 And alle men wenten to make professioun, ech in to his owne citee.

4 And Joseph wente vp fro Galilee, fro the citee Nazareth, in to Judee, in
to a citee of Dauid, that is clepid Bethleem, for

that he was of the hous and of the meyne of Dauid,

5 that he schulde knouleche with Marie, his wijf, that was weddid to hym,
and was greet with child.

6 And it was don, while thei weren there, the daies weren fulfillid, that
sche schulde bere child.

7 And sche bare hir first borun sone, and wlappide hym in clothis, and leide
hym in a cratche, for ther was no place to hym

in no chaumbir.

8 And scheepherdis weren in the same cuntre, wakynge and kepynge the watchis
of the nyyt on her flok.

9 And lo! the aungel of the Lord stood bisidis hem, and the cleernesse of
God schinede aboute hem; and thei dredden with

greet drede.

10 And the aungel seide to hem, Nyle ye drede; for lo! Y preche to you a
greet ioye, that schal be to al puple.

11 For a sauyoure is borun to dai to you, that is Crist the Lord, in the
citee of Dauid.

12 And this is a tokene to you; ye schulen fynde a yong child wlappid in
clothis, and leid in a cratche.

13 And sudenli ther was maad with the aungel a multitude of heuenli
knyythod, heriynge God,

14 and seiynge, Glorie be in the hiyeste thingis to God, and in erthe pees
be to men of good wille.

15 And it was don, as the `aungelis passiden awei fro hem in to heuene, the
scheephirdis spaken togider, and seiden, Go we

ouer to Bethleem, and se we this word that is maad, which the Lord hath
`maad, and schewide to vs.

16 And thei hiyynge camen, and founden Marie and Joseph, and the yong child
leid in a cratche.

17 And thei seynge, knewen of the word that was seid to hem of this child.

18 And alle men that herden wondriden, and of these thingis that weren seid
to hem of the scheephirdis.

19 But Marie kepte alle these wordis, berynge togider in hir herte.

20 And the scheepherdis turneden ayen, glorifyinge and heriynge God in alle
thingis that thei hadden herd and seyn, as it

was seid to hem.

21 And aftir that the eiyte daies weren endid, that the child schulde be
circumcided, his name was clepid Jhesus, which was

clepid of the aungel, bifor that he was conceyued in the wombe.

22 And aftir that the daies of the purgacioun of Marie weren fulfillid,
aftir Moyses lawe, thei token hym into Jerusalem, to

offre hym to the Lord, as it is writun in the lawe of the Lord,

23 For euery male kynde openynge the wombe, schal be clepid holi to the
Lord; and that thei schulen yyue an offryng,

24 aftir that it is seid in the lawe of the Lord, A peire of turturis, or
twei culuer briddis.

 

Prounouciation sites:

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~will2/chaucer.html

http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng211/middle_english_phonology.htm

http://www.ehow.com/how_2138664_read-speak-middle-english.html

http://geoffreychaucer.org/language/

 

 

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