A   Ivdith saide vnto all the people: Brethren heare me, Styck vp this heade vpon oure walles, and whan the Sonne aryseth, take euery man his weapen, and fall out violently: not as though ye wolde go besyde them, but to renne vpon them with violence. Whan the spyes in the t&ebar;tes se this, they shall of necessite be c&obar;pelled to fle bacwarde, and to rayse vp their captayne to the battayll. So wh&abar; their captaynes come in to Holofernes pauylion, and fynde the deed body wrapped in the bloude, fearfulnes shall fall vpon them: and whan ye perceaue that they fle, folowe them without all care, for God shal delyuer them vnto you, to be destroyed.

Then Achior seynge the power of God which he had shewed vnto the people of Israel, fell of from his Heithenish beleue, and put his trust in God, and let him self be circumcided: and so was he nombred amonge the people of Israel, he and all his posterite vnto this daye.

B   Now as soone as it was daye, they stickte vp Holofernes heade vpon the walles, and euery man toke his weapen, and so they wente out with an horrible crye. Whan the spyes sawe that, they ranne vnto Holofernes tent. And they that were within the t&ebar;t, came before his chamber, and made a greate rus&esset;hinge to wake him vp, because they thought with the noyse to haue raised him. For there durst not one of the Assirians knocke, go in, ner to open.

But whan the captaynes and prynces and all the chefe in the kynge of the Assirians hoost came together, they saide vnto the chamberlaynes: Go youre waye in, and wake him vp, for the myse are crepte out of their holes, and darre prouoke vs vnto battayll. ^note

C   Then wente Vagao in to his chamber, stode before the bed, and clapped with his handes, for he thought he had bene slepynge with Iudith.

But wh&abar; he had herkened perfectly with his eares, and coude perceaue no sterynge, he wente nyer to the bed, and lift it vp, and then sawe he the deed body of Holofernes lyenge there without a heade, weltred in his bloude vpon the earth. Then cried he with loude voyce, and with wepynge rent his clothes, and wente in to Iudiths tent, and founde her not: And so he leapte out vnto the people, and sayde: one wom&abar; of þe; Iewes, hath brought all Nabuchodonosors people to shame. For lo, Holofernes lyeth vp&obar; the grounde, and hath no heade.

Whan the chefe of the assirians hoost herde that, they rente their clothes, and there fell an intollerable feare and tremblinge vp&obar; them, so þt; theyr myndes were sore afrayed. And there was an exceadynge greate crye in the whole hoost.

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