CAP. VI.
1 That ny&yogh;t the king ladde withoute slep,
and he comaundide to be bro&yogh;t to hym
stories, and the bokis of &yogh;eris deedis of
rathere times. The whiche thingus whan,
hym present,
2 weren rad, it is come to
that place, wher was write, hou Mardoche
hadde told the aspies of Gabathan
and Thares, geldingis, coueitende to sle
king Assuer.
3 The whiche thing whan
the king hadde herd, he seith, What for
this feith of wrshipe or of mede Mardoche
hath goten? And his seruans and
mynestres seiden to hym, No thing of
mede vtterli he toc.
4 And anoon the king,
Who is, he seith, in the porche? Aman
forsothe wente in the innere porche of
the kingus hous, that he make suggestioun
to the king, that he comaunde
Mardoche to be ficchid on the iebet, that
to hym was maad redi beforn.
5 And the
childer answerden, Aman stant in the
porche. And the king seide, Come he in.
6 And whan he was comyn, he seide to
hym, What owith to be do to the man,
whom the king desireth to honouren?
Aman thenkende in his herte, and trowende,
that noon other man but hym the
king wolde honouren,
7 answerde, The man,
whom the king coueitith to honouren,
owith to be clad with kingus clothis,
8
and to be put vpon an hors that is of
the kingus sadil, and to take the kingus
diademe vp on his hed;
9 and the firste of
the kingus princis and kny&yogh;tis holde his
hors, and bi the stretis of the cite goende,
crie he, and seie, Thus shal ben honoured,
whom euere the king wile honoure.
10 And
so the king seide to hym, Hee&yogh;e, and,
-- --
the stole taken and an hors, do, as thou
hast spoke, to Mardoche, Jew, that sit
befor the &yogh;atis of the paleis; bewar, lest
any thing of tho, that thou hast spoken,
thou leue of.
11 And so Aman toc a stole
and an hors, and Mardoche clad in the
strete of the cite, and set vp on the hors,
wente beforn, and criede, This wrshipe
he is wrthi, whom euere the king wile
honoure.
12 And Mardoche is turned a&yogh;een
to the &yogh;ate of the paleys, and Aman
hee&yogh;ede to gon in to his hous, weilende,
and the hed couered.
13 And he tolde to
Sari, his wif, and to frendis, alle thingus
that hadden falle to hym. To whom answerden
the wise men, whom he hadde
in counseil, and his wif, If of the sed of
Jewis is Mardoche, befor whom thou
begunne to fallen, thou shalt not moun
withstonde to hym, but thou shalt falle
in his si&yogh;t.
14 &YOGH;it hem spekende, the geldingis
of the king camen, and anon hym
to the feste, that the quen hadde maad
redi, thei constreyneden to gon.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
