Commands the city to be searched throughout for the “wise of witchcraft.”
He who expounds the strange letters, shall be clothed in “gowns of purple.”
A collar of gold shall encircle his throat.
He shall be the third lord in the realm.
As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.
But after looking on the letters they were as ignorant as if they had looked into the leather of the left boot.
The king curses them all and calls them churls.
He orders the harlots to be hanged.
The queen hears the king chide.
She inquires the cause.