And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between heaven and earth; and the mule that was under him went on.
Soþeli it bifeld, þat Absalon sittinge on a mule, cam ayens þe seruauntis of Dauid; and whanne þe mule hadde entrid vndur a thicke ook, and greet, þe heed of Absolon cleuyde to þe ook; and whanne he was hangid bitwixe heuene and erþe, þe mule, on which he sat, passide.