Thus came every maiden unto the king Thus purified and prepared, and thus furnished and attended, as it follows. Whatsoever she desired was given her For ornament, or by way of attendance. And it should be observed, that every one whom the king took to his bed was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was Abraham's; so that it would have been no sin or dishonour to Esther, though she had not been made queen.

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