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Forsooth in the tother day (or on the next day) Holofernes commanded his hosts to go up against Bethulia.

And there were with them sixscore thousand of footmen fighters, and twelve thousand knights, without those men, that were there ready, which the captivity had occupied, and were brought from (the) provinces and cities, (out) of all (the) youth, or of able fighters. [There were forsooth footmen of fighters an hundred and twenty thousand, and horsemen twelve thousand, beside the ready companies of those men, whom captivity had occupied, and were brought from provinces and cities, of all youth.]

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