Soothly as for to drink evermore wine, either [or] evermore water, it is contrary, but for to use changeable, either [or] now one, now another, is delightable; so to men reading, if the word be evermore sought to (or for) each part, it shall not be covenable (or suitable), or pleasing; therefore here it shall be ended. Here endeth the second book of Maccabees, which is (the) end of the Old Testament [Here endeth the story of Maccabees, the which is the last book of the Old Testament]; see now the New Testament.