Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.
But bileue thou not to hem; for mo than fourti men of hem aspien hym, which han a vowid, þat þei schulen not eete neþer drynke, til þei sleen hym; and now þei ben redi, abidinge thi biheest.