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. III.
After a solemne supper made to al the court, and chief princes, king Darius
sleeping: 4. three esquires of the bodie keeping watch, proposed the question:
10. Whether wine, or a King, or women, or the truth doth excel? 17. The first
prayseth wine.
1 King Darius made a great supper to al his domestical seruantes,
and to al the magistrates of Media and Persia,
2 and
to al that were purple, and to the prætors, and consuls, and liuetenantes
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vnder him from India vnto Æthiopia, an hundred twentie
seuen prouinces.
3 And when they had eaten and drunken,
and returned ful, then Darius went vp into his chamber, and
slept, and awaked.
4 Then those three youngmen kepers of his
bodie, which garded the kings bodie, sayd one to an other;
5 Let
euerie one of vs say a word that may excel: & whose word soeuor
shal appeare wiser then the others, to him wil king Darius geue
great giftes,
6 to be couered with purple, & to drinke in gold, and
to sleepe vpon gold, & a chariote with a bridle of gold, & a bonet
of silke, and a cheyne about his necke:
7 and he shal sit in the
second place next Darius for his wisdome. And he shal be called
the cosin of Darius.
8 Then euerie one writing his word signed
it, and they put it vnder the pillow of Darius the king,
9 and they
sayd. When the king shal rise, we wil geue him our writinges: and
which soeuer of the three the king shal iudge, and the magistrates
of Persia, that his word is the wiser, to him shal the victorie be
geuen as is writen.
10 One wrote: Wine is strong.
11 An other
wrote, a King is stronger.
12 The third wrote, Wemen are more
strong: but aboue al thinges truth ouercometh.
13 And when the
king was risen, they tooke their writinges, and gaue him, and he
read.
14 And sending he called al the Magistrates of the Persians,
and the Medes, and them that weare purple, and the pretors, and
the ouerseers;
15 and they sate in the councel: and the writinges
were read before them.
16 And he sayd: Cal the youngmen, and
they shal declare their owne wordes. And they were called, and
went in.
17 And he sayd to them: Declare vnto vs concerning
these thinges which are writen. And the first began, he that had
spoken of the strength of wine,
18 and sayd: O ye men, how doth
wine preuaile ouer al men that drinke! it seduceth the minde.
19 And also the mind of king and orphane it maketh vaine. Also
of the bondman and the free, of the rich man and the poore,
20 and euerie mind it turneth into securitie and pleasantnes, and
it remembreth not any sorow and dewtie,
21 and al hartes it maketh
honest, and it remembreth not king, nor magistrate, and it
maketh a man speake al thinges by talentes.
22 And when they
haue drunke, they remember not frendship, nor brotherhood:
yea and not long after they take swordes.
23 And when they are recouered
and risen from the wine, they remember not what they
haue done.
24 O ye men, doth not wine excel? who thinketh to
doe so? And hauing sayd this, he held his peace.
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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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