Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
Forsoþe he wroot ayen to hem lettris þe secunde tyme, and seide, If ye ben myne, and obeien to me, take ye þe heedis of þe sones of youre lord, and come ye to me in this same our to morewe in to Jezrael. Soþeli þe sones of þe kyng, seuenti men, weren nurschid at þe beste men of þe citee.