A   The same night coulde not the kynge slepe, and he commaunded to brynge þe; Chronicles and storyes: which wh&abar; they were red before þe; kinge, they happened on the place where it was wrytt&ebar;, how Mardocheus had tolde, that the kynges two ch&abar;berlaynes (which kepte þe; tresholdes) sought to laie hondes on kinge Ahasuerus. And the kynge saide: What worshippe and good haue we done to Mardocheus therfore? Then sayde the kynges seruauntes that mynistred vnto him. There is nothinge done for him. And the kynge sayde: Who is in þe; courte? (for Aman was gone in to þe; courte without before þe; kinges house, þt; he might speake vnto þe; kinge to hange Mardocheus on þe; tre, þt; he had prepared for him.) And the kinges seruauntes saide vnto him: Beholde, Am&abar; st&obar;deth in the courte. The kynge saide: Let him come in. And wh&abar; Am&abar; came in, þe; kinge saide vnto him: What shal be done vnto þe; m&abar;, whom the kynge wolde fayne brynge vnto

worshippe? But Ham&abar; thought in his hert: Whom shulde the kynge els be glad to brynge vnto worshippe, but me? And Aman sayde vnto the kynge: Let the man vnto whom the kynge wolde be glad to do worshippe, be broughte hither, that he maye be araied with the royall garmentes which the kynge vseth to weere: and the horse that the kynge rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royall maye be set vpon his heade. And let this rayment and horse be delyuered vnder the hande of one of the kynges prynces, that he maye araye the man withall (whom the kynge wolde fayne honoure) and cary him vpon the horse thorow the strete of the cite, and cause it to be proclamed before him: Thus shal it be done to euery man, whom the kynge wolde fayne honoure.

C   The kynge sayde: Make haist, and take (as thou hast sayde) the raym&ebar;t and the horse, and do euen so with Mardocheus þe; Iewe that sitteth before the kynges gate, and let nothinge fayle of all that thou hast spoken. Then toke Aman the rayment and the horse, and arayed him, and broughte him on hor&esset;backe thorow the strete of the cite, and proclamed before him: Euen thus shall it be done vnto euery man whom the kynge is disposed to honoure. And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Aman gat him home in all the haist, mournynge with bare heade, and tolde Seres his wyfe and all his frendes, euery thynge that had happened him. Then sayde his wise men and Seres his wyfe vnto him: Yf it be Mardocheus of the sede of the Iewes, before wh&obar; thou hast begonne to fall, thou canst do nothynge vnto him, but shalt fall before him. Whyle they were yet talkynge with him, came the kynges chamberlaynes, and caused Aman to make haist to come vnto the bancket that Hester had prepared.

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