For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been 'any such thing' as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Axe thou of elde daies þat weren bifor þee, fro þe day in which thi Lord God made of nouyt man on erþe, axe thou fro þat oon ende of heuene til to þe toþer ende þerof, if sich a thing was doon ony tyme, eþer if it was euere knowun,