Seue nigt ſiðen forð ben numen
Or rachel beð to iacob cumen, 1688
And laban made a feſte oc
Jacob marries
Rachel.
Qua_n_ne iacob wid[178] rachel toc;
And for ghe ðanne cam hi_m_ ner,
ſeruede he hi_m_ ſiðen ſeuene ger. 1692
[Fol. 33b.]
Rachel adde, after londes kire,[179]
maiden balaam to ſeruen hire.
Leah was the
mother of four
sons.
LIa moder of fowre was,
Ruben, ſymeon, leui, iudas; 1696
Rachel was
barren.
for rachel non birðe ne nam,
Sge[180] bi-tagte iacob balaam;
Bilhah, her handmaid,
bare Dan
and Naphtali.
bala two childre bar bi him,
Rachel cald es[181] dan(.) neptalim; 1700
Zilpah bare Gad
and Asher.
And zelfa two ſunes him ber,
Lia calde iſ(.) Gad(.) and aſſer;
Leah afterwards
bare Zebulun,
Issachar, and
Dinah.
Lia ſiðen two ſunes bar,
Zabulon(.) laſt(.) or yſakar; 1704
Lia bar laſt dowter dinam,
Sichem, ſiðen, hire ille bi-nam.
At last Joseph
was born of
Rachel.
Last of rachel iosep was boren,
Beſt of alle ðe oðere bi-foren. 1708
Longe haued[182] nu iacob ben her,
wið laban fulle .xiii. ger;
Jacob desires
leave of Laban to
depart.
Leue aſkede hem hom to faren,
Wið wiues and childre ðeðen charen, 1712
Laban would not
let him depart.
But-if laban him ðelde bet
Hiſe ſeruiſe, and wið-holde hi_m_ get;
ſerue he ſcriðed ðat .vij. ger,
ðat he bi-leue and ſerue hi_m_ her; 1716
He promises him
to give him for
hire whatever he
shall ask.
Wel he ſeið him ðat he ſal hauen
for hire, quat-ſo he wile crauen.
[Fol. 34.]
forward iſ mad of alle ſep,
Of oneſ bles[183] iacob nim kep, 1720
Jacob is to have
all the speckled
And if of ðo ſpotted cumen,
[178] wið?
[179] Glossed _wune_ in a later hand.
[180] she?
[181] caldes MS.
[182] haueð?
[183] fles MS.