Servants: We are, O King.
King: She hath refused! It cannot be! [He looks absently away.] She must be punished.
Haman: What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to the law, because she hath not performed the commandment of King Ahasuerus?
First Prince: She hath not done wrong to the King only, but also to all the princes of the land, for this deed of the Queen shall become known unto all the women of Media and Persia and they shall despise the command of their husbands: "Because," they shall say, "King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti, the Queen, to be brought before him and she came not."
Second Prince: What shall we do? This will cause great trouble and disobedience.
King: What thinkest thou, Haman, my chief counselor?
Haman: If it please the King, let there go forth a royal commandment and let it be written among the laws of the Medes and Persians that Vashti come no more before Ahasuerus, and let the King give her royal estate to another that is better than she. Then when this decree shall become known all wives shall give honor unto their husbands.
King: This saying pleaseth me greatly. I shall do accordingly. [To servants]: Send letters unto every province to every people, which shall state this decree, so that every man shall know it.
Haman: O King, I pray thee, let there be fair maidens brought before thee from which thou shalt choose another which shall be thy Queen.
King: So be it! See that fair maidens from every province be brought here to my palace; and the one that pleaseth me best, I will take her for my Queen.