27 Nevertheless, there were also others amongst the makers of munitions that ceased not from their labours, nor rested them either by day or by night, but were for ever at it.
28 And all the people honoured them, being thankful that such as these, both the men and the women of them, they were left for to prove the land of En before the eyes of the world.
CHAPTER XIX.
1 Concerning the women. 3 Certain of them are rewarded. 4 And certain of them go forth with the fighters. 7 And certain of them become scribes unto the rulers. 16 Concerning revelations. 19 The young man and the maiden that was full up.
Now the things that came to pass amongst the women of the land, they were of divers kinds according to the manner of the women.
2 And those that before the war had been wont to ride through the country carrying fire and brimstone, they became full of zeal for the glory of En.
3 ¶ Wherefore they gat their reward, being vouchsafed the right to speak on the choice of the rulers. And they were filled with contentment, saying, the one unto the other, It is the beginning.
4 ¶ And certain of the women did go forth for to be with the fighters of En. And they were of two kinds. And some of them were Waacs, and some of them were Wrens.
5 And those that were Waacs, they were of the land; and those that were Wrens, they were of the sea.