A   So the kynges and Prynces of all cytyes and landes sente theyr Ambassytoures: namely, they of Syria and Mesopotamia, Syria Sobal, and Lybia, and Celicia, whiche came too Holofernes, and sayde: Let thy wrath ceasse towarde vs: It is better for vs to serue the great kyng Nabuchodonosor with oure lyues, and to be subiecte vnto the, then that we shoulde dye, and be slaine, and ceceyue greater hurte. All oure cytyes and possessions, all mountaynes and hylles, all feldes, greate ∧ small cattel, shepe, goates, horses, ∧ camels, all oure goodes and housholdes, be in thy power, vnder thy subiection be it altogether. We oure selfes also and oure chyldren will be thyne owne, come vnto vs a peaceable lorde, and vse oure seruyce at thy pleasure.

B   Then came Holofernes doune from the mountaynes with horsmen and great power and conquered all stronge fensed cytyes, and all that dwelt in the lande. And out of al cytyes he toke stronge men, and suche as were mete for the warre, to helpe him. There came suche a feare also vpon those countreys, that the indwellers of all the cities, the Princes ∧ rulers, and the people together, went forth to mete hym as he came, and receyued hym honorably with garlandes and torches, wyth daunses, tabrettes and pypes.

C   Neuerthelesse thoughe they did this, yet might they not swage his rigorous stomak: but he destroyed theyr cytyes, and hewed doune theyr woodes. For Nabdchodonosor the kynge hadde commaunded hym, that he shoulde rote out al the Goddes of the lande: to the intent that he onely mighte be called ∧ taken for God, of the naci&obar;s which Holofernes with hys power broughte vnder hym. So went he thorow Syria Sobal, ∧ thorow all Appamia, and all Mesopotamia, came to the Idumeas, in the lande of Gabaa ∧ Septopoly, and toke theyr cytyes, and remayned there .xxx. dayes, wherein he caused all the whole multitude of his hoost to be gathered together.

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