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[1]Now whyle young Tobias made long tarying, by reason of the mariage, his father was full of care & heauinesse, saying: Canst thou thinke what shoulde be the cause that my sonne tarieth so long? or why he should be kept so long there?
[2]Thinkest thou Gabelus is dead, and no man wyll geue him the money?
[3]Thus began he to be very sorowfull, he and Anna his wyfe with him: and began to weepe both together, because their sonne was not come againe vnto them at the day appoynted.
[4]As for his mother, she wept with discomfortable teares, and saide: Wo is me my sonne, Oh what ayled vs to send thee away into a strauge countrey, thou light of our eyes, thou staffe of our age, thou comfort of our life, thou hope of our generation?
[5]Seing all the thinges that we haue are onely in thee, we shoulde not haue sent thee away from vs.
[6]Then Tobias [comforted her, and] saide: Holde thy peace, & be not discomforted, our sonne is whole and sounde: the man that we sent him withall, is faithfull inough.
[7]Neuerthelesse, she might in no wyse be comforted: but dayly went out, loked about, and went about all the streates whereby she thought he should come againe: that if it were possible she might see him comming a farre of.
[8]But Raguel saide vnto his sonne in lawe: O tary here, and I shall send a messenger vnto thy father Tobias, to tell him that thou art in good health.
[9]Tobias saide vnto him: I am sure that my father and my mother count euery day, and that their heartes are sorye.
[10]So when Raguel had prayed Tobias with many wordes, and he woulde in no wyse heare him, he deliuered Sara vnto hym, & the halfe part of all his good, in seruauntes, and handmaydens, in sheepe, in camels, and in kyne, & much money: and so sent him away from him with health and ioy,
[11]And said: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your iourney, and bring you foorth safe and sounde, that ye may finde all thinges in good case with your elders, & that myne eyes may see your children afore I dye.
[12]So the elders embraced their daughter, kissed her, and let her go:
[13]Exhorting her to honour her father & mother in law, to loue her husband, to rule well her housholde, to keepe her house in good order, and to shewe her selfe faultlesse.
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