thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
and thi seed hadde be as grauel, and þe generacioun of thi wombe, as þe litle stoonys þerof; þe name of it hadde not perischid, and hadde not be al to-brokun fro my face.