[Prologue on the First book of Esdras [This prologue is from M.] .]
THIS firste book of Esdre, whiche was a wurthi man among Jewis, and writer of the lawe of God, tellith, that Cyrus, the king of Persis, stirid by the Spirit of God, ordeynde Esdre, the scryuein, ledere to al the peple of Juda, that was translatid in to Babiloyne, to bringe hem aȝen in to her lond, with alle the vessels that weren of the hous of the Lord, and ȝaf gold and siluer in greet plente, to make sacrifise to the Lord in Jerusalem.
