Esther · Chapter 12

[ edit] Forſoþe he dwelte þat time in þe halle of þe king, wiþ Bagaþa and Thara, geldingus of þe king, þat porteris weren of þe paleis. And whan he hadde vnderſtonde þe þoȝtis of hem, and þe beſyneſſis mor diligentli hadde ſeen before, he lernede þat þei enforciden to putten hond in to king Artaxerſen, and tolde vp on it to þe king. Þe which, of eiþer queſtioun had confeſſid, he comaundede to ben had to deþ. Þe king forſoþe þat was don, wrot in librarijes, but and Mardoche þe mynde of þe þing toc to lettris. And þe king comaundide to hym, þat in þe halle of þe paleis he ſhulde duelle, ȝiftis ȝiue to hym for þe telling.

Aman forſoþe, þe ſone of Amadaþy, gelding, was moſt glorious befor þe king, and wolde noȝen to Mardoche, and his puple, for þe two geldingus of þe king þat weren ſlain. Hider to þe prohemy; þoo þingus, þat folewen, in þat place weren put, wher is write in þe volume, And þei waſteden þe goodis or þer ſubſtauncis; þe whiche onli in þe comun tranſlacioun we han founden.