Holofernes' head is hanged on the wall: 6. Achior is circumcised, 7. The Israelites assault the Assyrians, 8. who going to awake their General, 14. find him slain, 17, and are all confounded with fear.Holofernes head is hanged on the wall: 6. Achior is circumcised, 7. The Israelites assault the Assyrians, 8. who going to awake their General, 14. finde him slaine, 17, and are al confounded with feare.✦
And Judith said to all the people: Hear me brethren, hang ye this head upon our walls:AND Iudith said to al the people: Heare me brethren, hang ye this head vpon our walles:✦Dixit autem Judith ad omnem populum : Audite me, fratres : suspendite caput hoc super muros nostros :
2and it shall be, when the sun shall rise, let every man take his armour, and issue ye forth with violence, not that you go down beneath, but as it were invading violently.and it shal be, when the sunne shal rise, let euerie man take his armour, and issue ye forth with violence, not that you goe downe beneath, but as it were inuading violently.et erit, cum exierit sol, accipiat unusquisque arma sua, et exite cum impetu, non ut descendatis deorsum, sed quasi impetum facientes.
3Then the watchmen must of necessity run to raise up their prince to battle.Then the watchmen must of necessitie runne to rayse vp their prince to battel.Tunc exploratores necesse erit ut fugiant ad principem suum excitandum ad pugnam.
4And when the captains of them shall run to the tabernacle of Holofernes, and shall find him headless volutatum: wallowed in blood, fear will fall upon them.And when the captaynes of them shal runne to the tabernacle of Holofernes, and shal finde him headles rowled in bloud, feare wil fal vpon them.Cumque duces eorum cucurrerint ad tabernaculum Holofernis, et invenerint eum truncum in suo sanguine volutatum, decidet super eos timor.
5And when you shall know that they flee, go after them securely, because our Lord will destroy them under your feet.And when you shal know that they flee, goe after them securely, because our Lord wil destroy them vnder your feete.Cumque cognoveritis fugere eos, ite post illos securi, quoniam Dominus conteret eos sub pedibus vestris.
6Then Achior seeing the power, that God of Israel wrought, forsaking the rite of gentilitatis: heathenism, paganism, believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his præputii: the foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel, and all the succession of his kindred until this present day.Then Achior seeing the power, that God of Israel wrought, forsaking the rite of gentilitie, beleued God, and circuncided the flesh of his prepuce, and was ioyned to the people of Israel, and al the succession of his kinred vntil this present day.✦Tunc Achior, videns virtutem quam fecit Deus Israël, relicto gentilitatis ritu, credidit Deo, et circumcidit carnem præputii sui, et appositus est ad populum Israël, et omnis successio generis ejus usque in hodiernum diem.
7And immediately as day brake, they hung the head of Holofernes upon the walls, and every man took his armour, and they went forth with great noise and shouting.And immediatly as day brake, they hong the head of Holofernes vpon the walles, and euerie man tooke his armour, and they went forth with great noyse and shouting.Mox autem ut ortus est dies, suspenderunt super muros caput Holofernis, accepitque unusquisque vir arma sua, et egressi sunt cum grandi strepitu et ululatu.
8Which the watchmen seeing, ran to the tabernacle of Holofernes.Which the watchmen seing, ranne to the tabernacle of Holofernes.Quod videntes exploratores, ad tabernaculum Holofernis cucurrerunt.
9Moreover they that were in the tabernacle, coming, and before the door of the tabernacle making a noise, to raise him, they endeavoured by arte: by craft, by cunning device to disquiet him, that Holofernes might awake not by them raising him, but by them making a noise.Moreouer they that were in the tabernacle, coming, and before the dore of the tabernacle making a noyse, to rayse him, they endeuored by art to disquiet him, that Holofernes might awake not by them raysing him, but by them making a noyse.Porro hi qui in tabernaculo erant, venientes, et ante ingressum cubiculi perstrepentes, excitandi gratia, inquietudinem arte moliebantur, ut non ab excitantibus, sed a sonantibus Holofernes evigilaret.
10For no man durst by knocking, or entering, to open the chamber of the chief of the Assyrians.For no man durst by knocking, or entring, to open the chamber of the chiefe of the Assyrians.✦Nullus enim audebat cubiculum virtutis Assyriorum pulsando aut intrando aperire.
11But when his dukes and tribunes were come, and all the chief of the army of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlains:But when his dukes and tribunes were come, and al the chiefe of the armie of the king of the Assyrians, they said to the chamberlayns:Sed cum venissent ejus duces ac tribuni, et universi majores exercitus regis Assyriorum, dixerunt cubiculariis :
12Go in, and awake him, because the mice issuing out of their holes, have presumed to provoke us to battle.Goe in, and awake him, because the mice yssuing out of their holes, haue presumed to prouoke vs to battel.✦Intrate, et excitate illum, quoniam egressi mures de cavernis suis, ausi sunt provocare nos ad prælium.
13Then Vagao entering into his chamber, stood before the cortinam: the hanging curtain of the canopy, and made a clapping with his hands: for he thought that he slept with Judith.Then Vagao entring into his chamber, stoode before the cortine, and made a clapping with his handes: for he thought that he slept with Iudith.✦Tunc ingressus Vagao cubiculum ejus, stetit ante cortinam, et plausum fecit manibus suis : suspicabatur enim illum cum Judith dormire.
14But when with the sense of his ears he perceived no motion of person lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body without the head of Holofernes tabefactum: wallowed, dissolved in his blood lie upon the ground, cried out in a loud voice with weeping, and rent his garments.But when with the sense of his eares he percieued no motion of person lying, he came neere to the cortine, and lifting it vp, and seing the bodie without the head of Holofernes weltred in his bloud lye vpon the ground, cried out in a lowd voyce with weeping, and rent his garmentes.✦Sed cum nullum motum jacentis sensu aurium caperet, accessit proximans ad cortinam, et elevans eam, vidensque cadaver absque capite Holofernis in suo sanguine tabefactum jacere super terram, exclamavit voce magna cum fletu, et scidit vestimenta sua.
15And going into the tabernacle of Judith, he found her not, and he leapt forth to the people,And going into the tabernacle of Iudith, he found her not, and he lept forth to the people,Et ingressus tabernaculum Judith, non invenit eam, et exiliit foras ad populum,
16and said: One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him.and sayd: One Hebrewe woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lyeth vpon the ground, and his head is not vpon him.✦et dixit : Una mulier hebræa fecit confusionem in domo regis Nabuchodonosor : ecce enim Holofernes jacet in terra, et caput ejus non est in illo.
17Which when the princes of the power of the Assyrians had heard, they all rent their garments, and intolerable fear and dread fell upon them, and their minds were troubled exceedingly.Which when the princes of the power of the Assyrians had heard, they al rent their garmentes, and intollerable feare and dread fel vpon them, and their mindes were trubled excedingly.Quod cum audissent principes virtutis Assyriorum, sciderunt omnes vestimenta sua, et intolerabilis timor et tremor cecidit super eos, et turbati sunt animi eorum valde.
18And there was made an incomparable cry in the midst of their camp.And there was made an incomparable crie in the middes of their campe.Et factus est clamor incomparabilis in medio castrorum eorum.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.