spere [search] and ask how thou mayst go to him, and thou shalt receive of him the said weight of silver and restore to him his obligation.  Dread thou not, my son; though we lead a poor life, we shall have much good if we dread God and go from sin and do well.  Then young Tobias answered to his father:  All that thou hast commanded me I shall do, father; but how I shall get this money I wot never; he knoweth not me, ne I know not him; what token shall I give him?  And also I know not the way thither.  Then his father answered to him and said:  I have his obligation by me, which when thou shewest him, anon he shall pay thee.  But go now first and seek for thee some true man, that for his hire shall go with thee whiles I live, that thou mayst receive it.

Then Tobias went forth and found a fair young man girt up and ready for to walk, and not knowing that it was the angel of God, saluted him and said:  From whence have we thee, good young man?  And he answered:  Of the children of Israel.  And Tobias said to him:  Knowest thou the way that leadeth one into the region of Medes?  To whom he answered:  I know it well, and all the journeys I have oft walked and have dwelled with Gabael our brother which dwelled in Rages the city of Medes, which standeth in the hill of Ecbathanis.  To whom Tobias said:  I pray thee tary here a while till I have told this to my father.  Then Tobias went in to his father and told to him all these things, whereon his father marvelled and prayed him that he should bring him in.  Then the angel came in and saluted the old Tobit and said:  Joy be to thee always.  And Tobit said:  What joy shall be to me that sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven.  To whom the youngling said:  Be of strong belief; it shall not be long but of God thou shalt be cured and healed.  Then said Tobit to him:  Mayst thou lead my son unto Gabael in Rages city of Medes, and when thou comest again I shall restore to thee thy meed.  And the angel said:  I shall lead him thither and bring him again to thee.  To whom Tobit said:  I pray thee to tell me of what house or of what kindred art thou.  To whom Raphael the angel said:  Thou needest not to ask the kindred of him that shall go with thy son, but lest haply I should not deliver him to thee again:  I am Azarias son of great Ananias.  Tobit answered:  Thou art of a great kindred, but I pray thee be not wroth, though I would know thy kindred.  The angel said to him:  I shall safely lead thy son thither, and safely bring him and render him to thee again.  Tobit then answered saying:  Well mote ye walk, and our Lord be in your journey, and his angel fellowship with you.  Then, when all was ready that they should have with them by the way, young Tobias took leave of his father and mother, and bade them farewell.  When they should depart the mother began to weep and say:  Thou has taken away and sent from us the staff of our old age, would God that thilke [that] money had never been for which thou hast sent him, our poverty sufficeth enough to us that we might have seen our son.  Tobit said to her:  Weep not, our son shall come safely again and thine eyes shall see him.  I believe that the good angel of God hath fellowship with him, and shall dispose all things that shall be needful to him, and that he shall return again to us with joy.  With this the mother ceased of her weeping and was still.