Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, 'to wit', six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),
And whanne þe tyme of alle damesels bi ordre was comun, þat þei schulden entre to þe kyng, whanne alle thingis weren fillid þat perteyneden to wymmens atire, þe twelueþe moneþe was turned; so oneli þat þei weren anoyntid with oile of myrte tre bi sixe monethis, and bi oþere sixe monethis þei vsiden summe pymentis and swete-smellynge oynementis.