Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's interdict: Hast thou not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition unto any god or man within thirty days, save unto thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
And þei neiyiden and spaken to þe kyng of þe comaundement, Kyng, wheþer thou ordeynedist not, þat ech man þat axide ony of goddis and of men, til to thretti daies, no but þee, thou kyng, he schulde be sent in to þe lake of liouns? To whiche men þe kyng answeride, and seide, Þe word is soth, bi þe decree of Medeis and Perseis, which it is not leueful to breke.