Blessed be thy
name, God of our fathers, for when thou art wroth thou shalt do mercy
and in a time of tribulation thou forgivest sins to them that call to
thee. Unto thee, Lord, I convert my visage, and unto thee I address mine
eyes. I ask and require thee that thou assoil me from the bond of the
reproof and shame, or certainly upon the earth keep me. Thou knowest
well, Lord, that I never desired man, but I have kept clean my soul. I
never meddled me with players, ne never had part of them that walk in
lightness. I consented for to take an husband with thy dread. Or I was
unworthy to them or haply they were unworthy to me, or haply thou hast
conserved and kept me for some other man. Thy counsel is not in man's
power. This knoweth every man that worshippeth thee, for the life of him
if it be in probation shall be crowned, and if it be in tribulation it
shall be delivered, and if it be in correction, it shall be lawful to
come to mercy. Thou hast none delectation in our perdition, for after
tempest thou makest tranquillity, and after weeping and shedding of
tears thou bringest in exultation and joy. Thy name, God of Israel, be
blessed, world without end.

In that same time were the prayers of them both heard in the sight of
the glory of the high God. And the holy angel of God, Raphael, was sent
to heal them both. Of whom in one time were the prayers recited in the
sight of our Lord God. Then when Tobit supposed his prayers to be heard
that he might die, he called to him his son Tobias, and said to him:
Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and set them in thy heart as a
fundament. When God shall take away my soul, bury my body, and thou
shalt worship thy mother all the days of her life, thou owest to
remember what and how many perils she hath suffered for thee in her
womb. When she shall have accomplished the time of her life, bury her by
me. All the days of thy life have God in thy mind, and beware that thou
never consent to sin, ne to disobey ne break the commandments of God. Of
thy substance do alms, and turn never thy face from any poor man, so do
that God turn not his face from thee. As much as thou mayst, be
merciful, if thou have much good give abundantly, if thou have but
little, yet study to give and to depart thereof gladly, for thou makest
to thee thereof good treasure and meed in the day of necessity, for alms
delivereth a man from all sin and from death, and suffereth not his soul
to go in to darkness. Alms i