Then, since a straight line EF touches the circle ABCD at B, and BA has been drawn from the point of contact at right angles to the tangent, the centre of the circle ABCD is on BA. [III. 19]
Therefore BA is a diameter of the circle ABCD;
therefore the angle ADB, being an angle in a semicircle, is right. [III. 31]
Therefore the remaining angles BAD, ABD are equal to one right angle. [I. 32]
But the angle ABF is also right;
therefore the angle ABF is equal to the angles BAD, ABD.
Let the angle ABD be subtracted from each;
therefore the angle DBF which remains is equal to the angle BAD in the alternate segment of the circle.
Next, since ABCD is a quadrilateral in a circle, its opposite angles are equal to two right angles. [III. 22]
But the angles DBF, DBE are also equal to two right angles;
therefore the angles DBF, DBE are equal to the angles BAD, BCD,
of which the angle BAD was proved equal to the angle DBF;
therefore the angle DBE which remains is equal to the angle DCB in the alternate segment DCB of the circle.