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In al that land / Magicien was noon
That koude expounde / what this lettre mente
But Daniel / expowned it anon
And seyde kyng god to thy fader sente
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Glorie and honour / regne / tresour / rente
And he was proud / and no-thyng god ne dradde
And therfore / god greet wreche vp-on hym sente
And hym birafte / the regne þat he hadde
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He was out cast of mannes compaignye
With asses / was his habitacioun
And eet hey as a beest in weet and drye
Til that he knew / by grace and by resoun
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That god of heuene / hath domynacioun
Ouer euery regne / and euery creature
And thanne / hadde god of hym compassioun
And hym restored / his regne and his figure
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Eek / thou that art his sone / art proud also
And knowest alle thise thynges verraily
And art rebel to god / and art his foo
Thou drank eek / of hise vessels boldely
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Thy wyf eek and thy wenches synfully
Dronke of the same vessels / sondry wynys
And heryest false goddes cursedly
Therfore to thee / yshapen ful greet pyne ys
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This hand was sent from god / that on the wal
Wroot Mane techel phares / truste me
Thy regne is doon / thou weyest noght at al
Dyuyded is thy regne / and it shal be
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To Medes and to Perses [yeue] quod he
And thilke same nyght this kyng was slawe
And Darius / occupieth his degree [folio 176a]
Thogh he therto / hadde neither right ne lawe
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