A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
And þe schort sentence of þe pistle was this, þat it were maad knowun in alle londis and puplis, þat weren suget to þe empire of kyng Assuerus, þat þe Jewis ben redi to take veniaunce of her enemyes.