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Then those three young men, keepers of the body (or his bodyguards), the which kept the body of the king [or that kept the body of the king], said one to another,

Say we each of us a word, that before pass in cunning, (or that shall surpass in knowing, or in knowledge); and whose ever word seem wiser than of another [or of the tother], king Darius shall give to him great gifts,

and to be covered with purple, and to drink in gold, and to sleep upon gold; and he shall give him a golden chariot, with the bridle, and a mitre of bis (or of fine linen), and a bie (or a band) about the neck;

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