Esther 1:2-9 euen in those dayes whan the kyng Ahasuerus sate on his seate royall, which was in Susan the chefe cytie,

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ² euen in those dayes whan the kyng Ahasuerus sate on his seate royall, which was in Susan the chefe cytie, ³ in the thirde yeare of his raygne, he made a feast vnto all his princes & seruauntes. And the myghtye men of Persia & Media, the capitaynes also & rulers of his countrees were before him, ⁴ & he shewed the riches and glorye of his kyngdome, & the glorious worshippe of hys greatnesse, many dayes longe, euen an hundreth and foure score dayes. ⁵ And when these dayes were expyred, the kyng made a feast vnto all the people, that were in Susan the chefe cytie, both vnto great and small, seuen dayes long in the court of the garden by the kynges palace: ⁶ where there hanged white, grene & yalow clothes, fastened with coardes of fyne sylke & purple in syluer rynges, vpon pylers of Marble stone. The benches also were of golde & syluer made vpon a pauement of grene, white, yalow and black Marble. ⁷ And they dranke in vessels of golde, & chaunged vessell after vessell. And the kynges wyne was moch, accordyng to the power of the kyng. ⁸ And the drinke was so apoynted that none shulde compell anye man, for so the kyng had commaunded by the officers of his house, that euery one shuld do as it liked him. ⁹ And the quene Uasti made a feast also for the wemen in the palace of Ahasuerus.