In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
Þerfor in þat tyme, wherynne Mardochee dwellide at þe yate of þe king, Bagathan and Þares, twei seruauntis of þe kyng, weren wroþe, þat weren porteris, and saten in þe first threisfold of þe paleis; and þei wolden rise ayens þe kyng, and sle hym.