1 b Daniel {chap. 6,1} maketh mencion but of six score, leauing out the nomber that is vnperfit, as the Scripture in diuers places vseth.
1 a Called also Darius, who was now the souereing Monarch, & had the gouernement of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeans. some thinke he was Darius Hystaspis sonne, called also Artaxerxes.
1 ! King Ahashuerosh maketh a royal feast.
2 c That is, had rest, and quietnes.
6 d Which they vsed in those countreis in stead of tables.
7 e As was beseming for so magnifical a King.
8 f None might be compelled to drinke more then it pleased him.
10 ! Wherunto the Quene Vashiti wil not come.
10 g Which was the last day of the feast that the King made for the people as {verse 5}
12 / Ebr. which was in the hand of the enauches.
13 h That had experience of things, as thes had learned by diligent marking in continuance of time.
14 i Which were his chief counselers, that might haue alwaies accesse to him.
16 k By her disobedience she hathe giuen an example to all women to do the like to their housbands.
17 l That is, her disobedience.
18 m Meaning, that thei wolde take first occasion hereof to do the like, & that the rest of women wolde by continuance do the same.
19 ! For which cause she is diuorced.
19 n Let her be diuorced & another made Quene.
20 ! The Kings decree touching the preeminence of man.
20 o For he had vnder him an hundreth twentie and seuen countreis.
22 p That is, that the wife shulde be subject to the housband and at his commandement.