PATIENCE.

[Headnotes:

PATIENCE IS TO BE COMMENDED.

JONAH IS SENT TO NINEVEH.

HE SAILS FOR TARSHISH.

HE IS OVERTAKEN BY A TEMPEST.

JONAH IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH, AND IS CAST OVERBOARD.

A WILD WHALE SWALLOWS JONAH.

THE WHALE WANDERS ABOUT.

JONAH PRAYS FOR HIS DELIVERANCE.

THE WHALE VOMITS UP JONAH.

THE PROPHET PREACHES AGAINST NINEVEH.

GOD’S MERCY DISPLEASES JONAH.

JONAH IS SHELTERED BY A WOODBINE.

HE LAMENTS ITS DESTRUCTION.

GOD JUSTIFIES HIS MERCY AND FORBEARANCE.]

[Headnote: PATIENCE IS TO BE COMMENDED.]

Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century · 第 159 / 191 题