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20 But because his hert was so proude, and his stomack set so fast vnto wylfulnesse: he was deposed from his kyngly trone, & hys magesty was taken from hym.
21 He was shut out from amonge men, hys herte was lyke a beastes herte, and hys dwellynge was with the wylde asses: he was fayne to eate grasse lyke an oxe, & hys body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, tyll he knewe, that the hyest had power vpon the kyngdomes of men and setteth ouer them, whom he lyst.
22 And thou his sonne (O Balthazar) for all this, hast not submytted thyne herte, though thou knewest all these thinges:
23 but hast magnifyed thy selfe aboue the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of hys house were brought before the: that thou, and thy Lordes? with thy quene and concubynes, myght dryncke wyne therout. And hast praysed the Idoles of syluer and gold, copper and yron, of wodd and stone. As for the God in whose hande consysteth thy breth and all thy wayes: thou hast not loued hym.
24 Therfore is the palme of thys hande sent hyther from hym, to token vp this wryting.
25 And this is the scripture, that is written vp: Mane, Thetel, Phares.
26 Nowe the interpretacion of the thynge is this: Mane, God hath nombred the kyngdome, and brought it to an ende:
27 Thetel, thou art weyed in the balaunce, and art founde to lyght:
28 Phares, thy kyngdome it delt in partes, and geuen to the Medes and Perses.
29 Then commaunded Balthazar, to cloth Daniel wyth purple, to hange a cheyne of golde aboute hys necke, and to make a proclamacyon concernynge hym: that he shulde be the ruler of the thyrde parte of hys kyngdome.
30 The very same night was Balthazar the kynge of the Caldees slayne,