Esther · Chapter 10

[ edit] King forſoþe Aſſuer al þe lond and alle þe ilis of þe ſe made tributaries; whos ſtrengþe and empire and dignete and heiȝneſſe, þat he enhauncide Mardoche in, ben writen in þe bokis of Medis and of Perſis; and hou Mardoche of Jeu kinrede were þe ſecounde fro king Aſſuer, and gret anentis þe Jewis, and acceptable to þe folc of þer breþern, ſechende goodis to his puple, and ſpekende þo þingus, þat to þe pes of his ſed ſhulden pertene.

Þe whiche ben had in Ebru in pleyn feiþ I expreſſede; þeſe þingus forſoþe, þat folewen, I fond write in þe comun making, þe whiche in Grekis tunge and lettris ben contened; and eft after þe ende of þe boc þis chapitre was ſeid, þat after oure conſuetude wiþ obelo, þat is, wiþ a ſtric, wee han befor notid. And Mardoche ſeide, Of God þeſe þingus ben don. I am recordid of a ſweuene, þat I ſaȝ, magnefiende þeſe ſame þingus, ne of þo any þing was voide. A litil welle, þat grew in to a flod, and in to liȝt and ſunne is turned, and in to manye watris reboundide, is Eſter, þat þe king toc wif, and wolde to be quen.

Two forſoþe dragounes, I am and Aman; þe folc þat camen togidere, þeſe ben, þat enforceden to don awei þe name of Jewis. Forſoþe my folc is Irael, þat criede to þe Lord; and þe Lord made ſaaf his puple, and deliuerede vs fro alle euelis, and made grete ſignes and wondris among þe Jentilis; and comaundide two lotis to ben, oon of þe puple of God, and an oþer of alle Jentilis. And eiþer lot cam in to þe ſet dai befor God now fro þat time to alle Jentilis. And þe Lord recordide of his puple, and rewide of his eritage.

And þeſe daȝes ſhul be kept in þe moneþ of Adar, þe fourtenþe and þe fiftenþe dai of þe ſame moneþ, wiþ alle biſyneſſe and ioȝe of þe puple gedered in to o cumpanye, in to alle þer aftirward ieneraciouns of þe puple of Irael.