commandedst me, arise, sit and eat of the venison of my hunting that thy soul may bless me.  Then said Isaac again to his son:  How mightest thou, said he, so soon find and take it, my son?  To whom he answered:  It was the will of God that such thing as I desired came soon to my hand.  Isaac said to him:  Come hither to me, my son, that I may touch and handle thee, that I may prove whether thou be my son Esau or not.  He came to his father, and when he had felt him, Isaac said:  The voice truly is the voice of Jacob, but the hands be the hands of Esau.  And he knew him not, for his hands expressed the likeness and similitude of the more brother.  Therefore blessing him, he said to him:  Thou art then my son Esau?  He answered and said:  I am he.  Then said Isaac:  Bring to the meat of thine hunting, my son, that my soul may bless thee; which he offered and gave to his father, and also wine.  And when he had eaten and drunken a good draught of the wine, he said to Jacob:  Come hither to me, my son, and kiss me; and he went to him and kissed him.  Anon as he felt the sweet savour and smell of his clothes, blessing him he said:  Lo! the sweet odour of my son is as the odour of a field full of flowers, whom our Lord bless.  God give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of wheat, wine, and oil, and the people serve thee, and the tribes worship thee.  Be thou lord of thy brethren, and the sons of thy mother shall bow down and kneel to thee.  Whosomever curseth thee, be he accursed, and who that blesseth thee, with blessings be he fulfilled.

Unnethe [hardly] had Isaac fulfilled these words and Jacob gone out, when that Esau came with his meat that he had gotten with hunting, entered in, and offered to his father saying:  Arise, father mine, and eat of the venison that thy son hath ordained for thee, that thy soul may bless me.  Isaac said to him:  Who art thou?  To whom he answered, I am thy first begotten son Esau.  Isaac then was greatly abashed and astonied, and marvelled more than can be thought credible.  And then he was in a trance, as the master of histories saith, in which he had knowledge that God would that Jacob should have the blessing.  And said to Esau:  Who then was he that right now a little tofore thy coming brought to me venison?  And I have eaten of all that he brought to me ere thou camest.  I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.  When Esau heard these words of his father, he cried with a great cry, and was sore astonied and said:  Father, I pray thee bless me also.  To whom he said:  Thy brother germain is come fraudulently, and hath received thy blessing.  Then said Esau:  Certainly and justly may his name be called well Jacob, for on another time tofore this he supplanted me of my patrimony, and now secondly he hath undernome from me my blessing.  And yet then he said to his father:  Hast thou not reserved to me one blessing?  Isaac answered:  I have ordained him to be thy lord, I have subdued all his