[Nebuchadnezzar.]
The myghty trone / the precious tresor [¶ Nabugo|donosor]
The glorious ceptre / and Roial magestee
That hadde the kyng Nabugodonosor
With tonge / vnnethe may discryued bee
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He twyes / wan Ierusalem the Citee
The vessel of the temple / he with hym ladde
At Babiloigne / was his souereyn see
In which his glorie / and his delit he hadde
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The faireste children / of the blood Roial [folio 175a]
Of Israel / he leet do gelde anoon
And maked ech of hem / to been his thral
Amonges othere / Daniel was oon
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That was the wiseste child of euerychon
ffor he / the dremes of the kyng expowned
Where as in Chaldeye / clerk ne was ther noon
That wiste / to what fyn / hise dremes sowned
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This proude kyng leet maken a statue of gold
Sixty cubites long and seuene in brede
The which ymage / he bothe yonge and oold
Comanded to loute / and haue in drede
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Or in a ffourneys / ful of flambes rede
He shal be brent that wolde noght obeye
But neuere wolde assente / to that dede
Daniel / ne hise yonge felawes tweye
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This kyng of kynges / proud was and elaat
He wende / þat god that sit in magestee
Ne myghte / hym nat bireue of his estaat
But sodeynly / he loste his dignytee
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And lyk a beest / hym semed for to bee
And eet hey as an Oxe / and lay ther oute
In reyn / with wilde beestes walked hee
Til certein tyme / was ycome aboute
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