forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.
for more spirit, and more prudent, and vndurstondyng, and interpretyng of dremes, and schewyng of priuytees, and assoilyng of boundun thingis weren foundun in hym, þat is, in Danyel, to whom þe kyng puttide þe name Balthasar. Now þerfor Daniel be clepid, and he schal telle þe interpretyng. Þerfor Daniel was brouyt in bifor þe kyng. To whom þe forseid kyng seide,