1 Samuel 18

¹ And the wymmen sungen, pleiynge, and seiynge, Saul smoot a thousynde, and Dauid smoot ten thousynde. ² Saul was wrooth greetli, and this word displeside in his iyen; and he seide, Thei yauen ten thousynde to Dauid, and thei yauen a thousynde to me; what leeueth to hym, no but the rewme aloone? ³ Therfor Saul bihelde Dauid not with riytful iyen, fro that dai and afterward. ⁴ Sotheli aftir the tother dai a wickid spirit of God asailide Saul, and he propheciede in the myddis of his hows. ⁵ Forsothe Dauid harpide with his hond, as bi alle daies; and Saul helde a spere, and caste it, and gesside that he myyte prene Dauid with the wal, that is, perse with the spere, so that it schulde passe til to the wal; and Dauid bowide fro his face the secounde tyme. 6 And Saul dredde Dauid, for the Lord was with hym, and hadde go awei fro him silf. 7 Therfor Saul remouide Dauid fro hym silf, and made hym tribune on a thousynde men; and Dauid yede out and entride in the siyt of the puple. ⁸ And Dauid dide warli in alle hise weies, and the Lord was with hym; ⁹ and so Saul siy that Dauid was ful prudent, and he bigan to be war of Dauid. ¹⁰ Forsothe al Israel and Juda louyden Dauid; for he entride and yede out bifor hem. ¹¹ And Saul seide to Dauid, Lo! my more douytir Merob, Y schal yiue her wijf to thee; oneli be thou a strong man, and fiyte thou the batels of the Lord. Forsothe Saul arettide, and seide, Myn hond be not in hym, but the hond of Filisteis be on hym. 12 Sotheli Dauid seide to Saul, Who am Y, ether what is my lijf, ether the meynee of my fadir in Israel, that Y be maad the sone in lawe of the kyng? ¹³ Forsothe the tyme was maad whanne Merob, the douyter of Saul, ouyte to be youun to Dauid, sche was youun wijf to Hadriel Molatite. ¹⁴ Forsothe Dauid louide Mychol, the douytir of Saul; and it was teld to Saul, and it pleside hym. ¹⁵ And Saul seide, Y schal yyue hir to hym, that it be to hym in to sclaundir, and the hond of Filisteis be on hym. Therfor Saul seide to Dauid, In twei douytris thou schalt be my sone in lawe to dai. 16 And Saul comaundide to hise seruauntis, Speke ye to Dauid, while it is hid fro me, and seie ye, Lo! thou plesist the king, and alle hise seruauntis louen thee; now therfor be thou hosebonde of the douytir of the kyng. 17 And the seruauntis of Saul spaken alle these wordis in the eeris of Dauid. And Dauid seide, Whether it semeth litil to you to be sone in lawe of the kyng? Forsothe Y am a pore man, and a feble. ¹⁸ And the seruauntis telden to Saul, and seiden, Dauid spak siche wordis. ¹⁹ Sotheli Saul seide, Thus speke ye to Dauid, The kyng hath no nede to yiftis for spowsails, no but onely to an hundrid prepucies, that is, mennus yerdis vncircumcidid, of Filisteis, that veniaunce be maad of the kyngis enemyes. Certis Saul thouyte to bitake Dauid in to the hondis of Filisteis. ²⁰ And whanne the seruauntis of Saul hadden teld to Dauid the wordis, whiche Saul hadde seid, the word pleside in the iyen of Dauid, that he schulde be maad the kyngis son in lawe. 21 And aftir a fewe daies Dauid roos, and yede in to Acharon, with the men that weren with hym, and he killide of Filisteis twei hundrid men; and brouyte the prepucies of hem, and noumbride tho to the kyng, that he schulde be the kyngis sone in lawe. And so Saul yaf Mycol, his douyter, wiif to hym. ²² And Saul siy, and vndirstood, that the Lord was with Dauid. ²³ Forsothe Mychol, the douyter of Saul, louide Dauid, and Saul bigan more to drede Dauid; and Saul was maad enemye to Dauid in alle daies. 24 And the princes of Filisteis yeden out; forsothe fro the bigynnyng of her goyng out Dauyd bar hym silf more warli than alle the men of Saul; and the name of Dauid was maad ful solempne. 26 Forsothe Saul spak to Jonathas, his sone, and to alle hise seruauntis, that thei schulden sle Dauid; certis Jonathas, the sone of Saul, louyde Dauid greetli. 27 And Jonathas schewide to Dauid, and seide, Saul, my fadir, sekith to sle thee, wherfor, Y biseche, kepe thou thee eerli; and thou schalt dwelle priueli, and thou schalt be hid. ²⁸ Sotheli Y schal go out, and stonde bisidis my fadir in the feeld, where euer he schal be; and Y schal speke of thee to my fadir, and what euer thing Y shal se, Y schal telle to thee. ²⁹ Therfor Jonathas spak good thingis of Dauid to Saul, his fadir, and seide to hym, Kyng, do thou not synne ayens thi seruaunt Dauid, for he `synnede not to thee, and hise werkis ben ful good to thee; ³⁰ and he puttide his lijf in his hond, and he killide the Filistei. And the Lord made greet heelthe to al Israel; thou siy, and were glad; whi therfor synnest thou in giltles blood, and sleest Dauid, which is with out gilt?