All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
Alle þe princes of thi rewme, and magistratis, and duykis, senatours, and iugis, han maad a counsel, þat a decree and comaundement of þe emperour go out, þat ech man þat axith ony axyng of what euer god and man, til to thretti daies, no but of þee, thou kyng, he be sent in to þe lake of liouns.