but when 'the matter' came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
And afterward Hester entride to þe kyng, and bisouyte, þat hise enforsyngis schulden be maad voide bi þe lettris of þe kyng, and þat þe yuel, which he hadde thouyt ayenus þe Jewis, schulde turne ayen in to his heed. Forsoþe þei hangiden on þe cros boþe hym and hise sones.