[Nebuchadnezzar.]
¶ The mighty trone þe precious tresor [¶ De Rege Nabu|godonosore]
The glorious septir and realle mageste
That hadde þe king Nabugodonosor
Wiþ tunge vnneþe may discryued be
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he twyes nam Iherusalem þe cite /
The vessel of þe temple he wiþ him ladde
¶ At Babiloyne was his souerain see / [folio 238b]
In which his glorie and his delit he hadde /
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The fayrest children of þe blood royalle
Of Ierusalem he dede do gylde anon
And maked eche of hem to ben his þralle
Among alle oþer Daniel was oon
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That was þe wisest childe of euerychon
ffor he þe dremes of þe king expowned
Wher as in Caldey clerk was þer non
That wiste to what fyn his dremes sowned
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¶ This proude king leet make a statue of golde
Sixty cubites longe and seuen in brede
To which Image boþe ȝonge and olde
Comaunded he to lowte and haue in drede /
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Or in a fourneys ful of flammes rede
He schal be brent þat wolde nought obeye
But neuere wolde assente to þat dede
Danyel ne his ȝonge felawes tweye
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¶ This king of kynges proude and elat
he wende god þat sitte in mageste
Ne might him nought byreue of his estate
But sodeinly he lost his dignite
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And like a beeste him seemed for to be
And ete hey as an oxe and lay þer oute
In reyn wiþ wilde bestes walked he
Til a certein tyme was come aboute
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