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. VI.
The king hearing the good seruice of Mardocheus in detecting traitors, read in
the chronicle (for which he had yet no rewarde) 4. commandeth Aman
to honour him next to the king, 11. which he performeth.
1 That night the king note passed without sleepe, and he
commanded the histories and chronicles of former times
to be brought him. Which when they were read in his presence,
2 they came to that place where it was written, how
Mardocheus had vttered the treason of Bagathan, and Thares
the eunuches, couering to kil king Assuerus.
3 Which when
the king had heard, he sayd: What honour and reward hath
Mardocheus receiued for this fidelitie? His seruantes and ministers
said to him: He hath receiued no reward at al.
4 And
the king by and by, who is, quoth he, in the court? For Aman
had entered the inner court of the kings house, that he
might suggest to the king, and he might command Mardocheus
to be hanged fast on the gibbet, which was prepared
for him.
5 The seruantes answered: Aman standeth in the
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court. And the king said: Let him come in.
6 And when he
was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to the
man, whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman note thinking
in his hart, and supposing that the king would honour
no other, but him self,
7 answered: The man, whom the
king desireth to honour,
8 ought to be clothed with the
kings garmentes, and to be set vpon the horse, that is for the
kings saddle, and to take the kings crowne vpon his head,
9 and let the chiefe of the kings princes and nobles hold his
horse, and going throuh the streat of the citie, crie, and say:
So shal he be honoured, whomsoeuer the king wil honour.
10 And the king said to him: Make hast, and taking a robe and
a horse, do that thou hast spoken, to Mardocheus the Iewe,
which sitteth before the dootes of the palace: Beware thou
pretermitte nothing of those things, which thou hast spoken.
11 Aman therfore tooke a robe and a horse, and putting it on
Mardocheus, and setting him on the horse, in the streat of the
citie went before him, and cried: This honour is he worthie
of, whom soeuer the king is willing to honour.
12 And Mardocheus
returned to the palace gate: and Aman made hast to
goe into his house, mourning and his head couered:
13 and
he told Zares his wife, and his frendes al things, that had
chaunced him. To whom the wise men whom he had in
counsel, and his wife answered: note If Mardocheus be of the
Iewes seede, before whom thou hast begune to fal, thou canst
not resist him, but thou shalt fal in his sight.
14 As they were
yet speaking, the kings eunuches came, and compelled him
to goe quickly to the banket, which the queene had 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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