¶ Capitulum secundum /
AFter the grete Nabugodonosor his sonne Nabugodonosor regned in Babyloyne ten yere / he put moche more to his fa¦der Royalte ¶ For Megasten in libro Iudiciorum sayth that in strengthe and grete dedes he passed hercules And he destroyed Libia and hiberia and pulled and drough oute of places grete stones as it were hilles and sette there trees and made ther an Orchard that was cleped suspensilis / that his wyf myght st••••de in that Orchard and see home in to hir owne countrey where she was born and she was darius doughter· Darius was astrages sonne Astrages heet assuerus also ¶ Also this kyng beseged Tirus thre yere and thre monethes R Nethehes Marcianus speketh not of this second nabugodonosor but he sayth that euil marodoth and Balthasar were bretheren ¶That tyme were in theyr flowres Anaximander and Anaximines Philosophres ta¦les disciples Petrus 162 ¶ This Nabugodonosors brother Enylmerodach began to regne whan his broder was dede and anon he toke Ioachiin king of Iuda out of prison that had be in prison & in bandes seuen and thyrtty yere and he sette his trone aboue all kynges trones that were with hym in babilon / he did hym this grace & mercy· ffor his broder nabugodonosor in the ty¦me of his fader meschyef had doo many euil dedes / and whan his fader was restored ayene· to his owne shap· he put his broder E∣nylmerodach in pryson that was accused to his fader / And Io∣achim was there in pryson vnto the deth of the second Nabugo¦donosor ¶Therfor this enylmerodach whan he began to regne to¦ke Ioachym oute of pryson for he drad lest his fader wold rise from deth to lyue as he was somtyme tourned fro the shappe of a beest in to the shap of mankynde ¶And by counseyle and loore