A   The same nyght could not the king slepe, and he commaunded to bryng the Chronicles and storyes: whych when they were red before the kyng they happened on the place where it was wrytten, how ^note Mardocheus had told that Bigthana and Theres þe; kynges two ch&abar;berlaynes (which kept the thresholdes) sought, to laye handes on kyng Ahasuerus. And the kyng sayd: what worshyppe ∧ good haue we done to Mardocheus therfore? Then sayde the kynges seruauntes that mynistred vnto hym: There is nothynge at all done for hym. And the kyng sayde: B   Who is in the courte? (for Haman was gone into the court wythout before þe; kinges house, that he myght speake vnto the kynge to hange Mardocheus on þe; tre (that he had prepared for hym.) And the kynges seruauntes sayde vnto hym: beholde, Haman standeth without in the court. And þe; kyng sayd: let him come in. And when Haman came in, the kyng sayd vnto hym: what shall be done vnto the man, whom the þe; kynge volde fayne brynge vnto worshippe? Haman thought in his hert: Whom desyreth the kyng to bryng vnto worshippe more then me? C   And Haman answered the kyng Let the man wh&obar; the kyng pleaseth to bring vnto worshippe, be brought hyther, that he maye be arayed with the royall garmentes which the kyng vseth to weare: ∧ the horse þt; the kyng rydeth vpon, and that the crowne

Haman royall maye be set vp&obar; his heed. And let this rayment and horse be delyuered vnder the hand of one of the kynges princes, that they maye araye the man withall (wh&obar; the kyng is disposed to bryng to honoure) ∧ cary hym vp&obar; the horse thorow the strete of the cytie, &abar;d proclayme before him: thus shalt it be done to the man, whom the kynge pleaseth to bryng to honoure.

And the kyng sayde: make hast, and take as thou hast sayde, the rayment ∧ the horse: and do eu&ebar; so vnto Mardocheus the Iewe, þt; sytteth before the kynges gate, ∧ let nothing fayle of all that thou hast spoken. Then toke Haman the rayment ∧ the horse, and arayed Mardocheus, D   &abar;d brought him on horsbacke thorow the strete of þe; cytie, and proclaymed before him: Euen thus shall it be done vnto þe; man wh&obar; the kyng is disposed to honoure. And Mardocheus came agayne to the kynges gate, but Haman gat hym home in all þe; hast mournynge bare headed, &abar;d tolde Zares his wyfe and all hys frendes, euery thing þt; had happened him. Then sayd his wyse men and Zares his wyfe vnto him: It yf be Mardocheus, of the sede of þe; Iewes, before wh&obar; thou hast begonne to fall, thou shalt not preuayle agaynst hym, but shalt surely fall before him. And whyle they were yet talkyng with him, came the kynges chamberlaynes, ∧ caused Haman to make hast, to come vnto the bancket that Esther had prepared.

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