Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. V.
Esther standing in the kings sight he calleth her, 4. she requesteth that he and
Aman wil dine with her. 7. Againe she inuiteth them. 9. Aman is more
incensed against Mardocheus, prepareth high gallowes to hang him on. note
1 And the third day Esther put on royal garmentes, and
stood in the court of the kings house, which was the
inner agaynst the kings hal: but he sate vpon his throne in
the consistorie of the palace, against the doore of the house. note
2 And when he had seene Esther the queene standing, she
pleased his eies, and he put forth toward her the golden rod,
which he held in his hand: who going neere, kissed the top
of his rod. note
3 And the king said to her: What wilt thou queene
Esther? what is thy request? yea if thou wilt aske the halfe
part of the kingdom, it shal be geuen thee.
4 But she answered:
If it please the king, I beseech thee that thou come to
me this day, and Aman with thee to a banket, which I haue
prepared.
5 And the king forthwith, cal ye Aman, quoth he,
quickly, that he may obey Esthers wil. The king therfore and
Aman came to the banket, which the queene had prepared
for them.
6 And the king said to her, after that he had drunke
wine aboundantly. What doest thou desire to be geuen
thee? and for what thing askest thou? although thou aske the
half part of my kingdom, thou shalt obteyne.
7 To whom
Esther answered: note My petition, and requestes are these:
8 If
I haue found grace in the kings sight, and if it please the king
to geue that which I aske, and to fulfil my petition: let the
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king and Aman come to the banket, which I haue prepared
them, and to morrow I wil open my wil to the king.
9 Aman
therfore went forth that day ioyful and merie. And when he
had seene Mardocheus sitting before the doores of the palace,
and not onlie not to haue risen vp to him, but not so much as
to haue moued from the place where he sate, he was wrath
excedingly:
10 and dissembling his anger, and returning into
his house, he called together vnto him his freindes, and Zares
his wife:
11 and he declared to them the greatnesse of his
riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great
glorie the king had aduanced him aboue al his princes and
seruantes.
12 And after these things he said: Queene Esther also
hath called none other to the banket with the king, but me:
with whom to morow also I shal dine with the king.
13 And
wheras I haue al these things, I thinke I haue nothing, so long
as I shal see Mardocheus the Iew sitting before the kings
doores.
14 And Zares his wife, & the rest of his frendes answered
him: C&obar;mand a great beame to be prepared, hauing fiftie
cubites in height, and speake in the morning to the king, that
Mardocheus may be hanged vpon it, and so thou shalt goe
ioyful with the king to the banket. The counsel pleased him,
and he commanded an high gallowes to be prepared.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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