Pharao sayde vnto Ioseph: in my dreame me thought I stode by a ryvers
syde/ and there came out of the ryver vij fatt fleshed ãd well fauored
kyne/ and fedd in the medowe. And then .vij. other kyne came vp after
them/ poore and very euell fauored ãd leane fleshed: so that I neuer
sawe their lyke in all the lande of Egipte in euell fauordnesse. And
the .vij. leane and euell fauored kyne ate vpp the first .vij. fatt
kyne And when they had eaten them vp/ a man cowde not perceaue that
they had eatẽ them: for they were still as evyll fauored as they were
at the begynnynge. And I awoke.
And I sawe agayne in my dreame .vij. eares sprynge out of one stalk
full and good/ and .vij. other eares wytherd/ thinne and blasted with
wynde/ sprynge vp after them. And the thynne eares deuowred the .vij.
good eares. And I haue tolde it vnto the sothsayers/ but no man can
tell me what it meaneth.
Then Ioseph sayde vnto Pharao: both Pharaos dreames are one. And god
doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to do. The vij. good kyne are .vij
yeres: & the .vij. good eares are .vij. yere also/ and is but one
dreame. Lykewyse/ the .vij. thynne and euell fauored kyne that came
out after them/ are .vij. yeares: and the .vij. emptie and blasted
eares shalbe vij. yeares of hunger. This is that which I sayde vnto
Pharao/ that God doth shewe Pharao what he is aboute to doo.
Beholde there shall come .vij. yere of great plenteousnes through out
all the lande of Egypte. And there shall aryse after them vij. yeres
of hunger. So that all the plenteousnes shalbe forgeten in the lande
of Egipte. And the hunger shall consume the lande: so that the
plenteousnes shall not be once agene in the land by reason of that
hunger that shall come after/ for it shalbe exceading great And as
concernynge that the dreame was dubled vnto Pharao the second tyme/ it
betokeneth that the thynge is certanly prepared of God/ ãd that God
will shortly brynge it to passe.
Now therfore let Pharao provyde for a man of vnderstondynge and
wysdome/ and sett him over the lande of Egipte. And let Pharao make
officers ouer the lande/ and take vp the fyfte parte of the land of
Egipte in the vij. plenteous yeres and let them gather all the foode
of these good yeres that come/ ãd lay vp corne vnder the power of
Pharo: that there may be foode in the cities/ and there let them kepte
it: that there may be foode in stoore in the lande/ agaynst the .vij.
yeres of hunger which shall come in the lande of Egipte/ and that the
lande perishe not thorow hunger.
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