Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai

1And the King Ahashuerosh layd a tribute vpon the land, and vpon the yles of the sea. 2And all the actes of his power, and of his might, & the declaration of the dignitie of Mordecai, wherwith the King magnified him, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia? 3For Mordecai the Iewe was the second vnto King Ahashuerosh, & great among the Iewes, and accepted among the multitude of his brethren, who procured the wealth of his people, and spake peaceably to all his seede.(10:4) Then Mardocheus saide, God hath done these things.(10:5) For I remember a dreame, which I saw concerning these matters, and there was nothing thereof omitted.(10:6) A litle fountaine which became a flood, and was a light, and as the sunne, and as much water, this flood was Esther whom the King maried, and made Queene.(10:7) And the two dragons are I and Aman.(10:8) And the people are they that are assembled to destroy the name of the Iewes.(10:9) And my people is Israel, which cryed to God, and are saued: for the Lord hath saued his people, & the Lorde hath deliuered vs from all these euils, and God hath wrought signes, & great wonders, which haue not bene done among the Gentiles.(10:10) Therefore hath hee made two lottes, one for the people of God, and another for all ye Gentiles.(10:11) And these two lottes came before God for all nations, at the houre and time appointed, and in the day of iudgement.(10:12) So God remembred his owne people, and iustified his inheritance.(10:13) Therefore those dayes shalbe vnto them in the moneth Adar the fourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same moneth, with an assemblie and ioy, and with gladnesse before God, according to the generations for euer among his people. (11:1) In the fourth yere of the reigne of Ptolomeus & Cleopatra Dositheus, who said he was a Priest & Leuite, and Ptolomeus his sonne, and brought the former letters of Phrurai, which they saide Lysimachus the sonne of Ptolomeus, which was at Ierusalem, interpreted,