heau'nly tongue to holy virgins eare All haile in Pilats hall they did abuse That scorning Christ presented Aue there Highest in fauour of all vvomen gain'd it And chiefest sinner of all men profan'd it First vvord it vvas Gods gracious loue tv'nfold Beginning at our sauiours incarnation First vvord vvherewith false Iudas bought and sold Whose trafficke turn'd Christs death his own damnation What profite his that all the vvorld should vvinne With soule in deaths eternall debt by sinne Why com'st thou friend vvhat mean'st thou Iesus said At th'instant houre my praiers and teares commend thee To giue a kisse vvhereby I am betraide And vvith All haile brings troupes to apprehend mee I tearme thee friend vngratefull as thou art That show'st nor friend nor yet disciples part To call thee friend it doth thus much betoken No cause in me hath canseld loues desire But they reuolting hath our friendship broken Vnaltred I remaine the same entire If thou vvith Dauid I haue sinned couldst say His answere thine Thy sinne is done away Returne thee vvith repentant hearts imbrace And mercy shall vvith iustice dome suspend I left not thee vvhy doest thou run from grace Though thou hast sold me still I call thee friend But if thou vvilt not be reclaimed backe Be thou thy selfe thine owne soules vvilfull vvracke When murder had saluted treason kist And bribery imbrac'd vvith signe of gladnesse In vvhich the traitors seruice did consist Then press'd the Iewes on Christ vvith furious madnesse Like hunger-paunched vvolues prone to deuour The lambe subiected to their rauening power Right manly valiant Peter did him beare When no disciple durst attempt the like T'vnsheath his sword and cut off Malcus eare Against an armed multitude to strike Danger and feare are cowards turnd aside When manhood is by resolution tride But Iesus did no humane forces need That legions had of Angels at command And Peter had no charge to fight but feed The flocke of sheepe committed to his hand It vvas Gods vvill to suffer not resist His power gaue power and sinne did vvhat it list He vvas content their violent force should bind him And lead him thence vnto the torturing place To teare his flesh vvith vvhips to mocke and blind him To buffet and to spit vpon his face T'accuse him false by slanders lying breath To dome him sentence shames most odious death Judas in despaire TErrors torment my tortur'd soule perplexed Fell furies fright and hale me on away To Cayphas and the rest vvith horrour vexed Goes Simons sonne Gods son did false bettay Such is my sinne against that guiltlesse blood No baulme in Israel left to doe me good They answer'd carelesse of my vvretched state What's that to vs Looke thou thy selfe vnto it Then vengeance I expect grace comes too late Resolue no lesse for that you brib'd me do it Sathan seduc'd I acted the offence Despaire is come there lies your thirty pence I am perditions child outcast forlorne All haile in vvord but in the heart all hatefull It had ben good so bad had nere ben borne That of all creatures am the most ingratefull Oh had I neuer liu'd suruiuing shame Had vnreported hid my odious name Base couetousnesse no more Gehezies sinne My intrest in that crime doth thine controule Thou vvast but leaper of polluted skinne My leprosie is a defiled soule Thou took'st a bribe against thy maisters vvill But I vvas brib'd to kisse and kist to kill Maries good vvorke Christ promis'd to commend Perpetually in euer-liuing praise But my vile act beyond all stinted end Shall euidence I trod the left hand vvaies My title thus the Scriptures shall record Judas Iscarioth that betrayd the Lord. Three euils in one I did commit in this That gainst the King of glory I haue done Deceit betray'd vvith shew of kind-ment kisse Couetousnesse incenst that sinne begun Impudent boldnesse did intrude the deed Ere any mou'd or vvisht me to proceed I knew the choise and gainefull happie vvay That heauens gate vvas straightest dore to enter I taught the vvorld take heed broad paths doe stray And yet my selfe the vvide-gate vvilfull venter Like Noahs vvorkemen such my state is found They built an arke for him themselues vvere drownd I haue excluded faiths resolued trust In him by vvhom the true repentant liue Cain-like affirming nought but vengeance must Reward my sinnes mercy no such forgiue My heart's indurate hardned vnrelenting Past is the deed the doer past repenting Though ' Dauid found remorse to vvaile his sinne ' And Nathans comfort eas'd his mournfull taske Distrust and horrour haue so hemd me in That might I haue I hopelesse vvill not aske Feare shame and guilt do haunt me at the heeles Of iudgement men and vvhat my conscience feeles My dying soule refusing liuing meane Denies vvith heav'nly Manna to be fed A sea of teares can neuer rince it cleane Yet could one drop that drop should ne're be shed What teares vvhat praiers can his atonement make Whose portion is in vengeance fearefull lake Mine inward conscience doth soules ruine tell Authenticke witnesse and seuere accuser Where I abide I feeling find a hell Tormenting me that am selfe torment chuser Sound conscience well is said like vvall of brasse Corrupted fit compar'd to broken glasse More blind then those vvhose sight sight giuer gaue More deaffe and dumbe then any that he cured More dead then Lazarus in his stincking graue When he deaths vaut till fift daies baile indured Not eies eares limmes tongue body haue defect It is my soule that saluing heauens reiect If first borne man the first of desp'rate mind By vvhom the first of guiltlesse blood vvas shed Did say There vvas no grace for him to find But vengeance must be heaped on his head Let me sinnes monster masse of cursed euill Bid Sathan vvelcome and imbrace the deuill When Christ shall come in clouds and sinnes be scand All Adams sonnes expecting rightfull dome Ivvretch amongst the goats shall trembling stand The right-hand sheepe affoord no traitor roome To crie Lord Lord this answere shall be got Depart you cursed hence I know you not The casting out of deuils then obiected Will cease no vvrath extenuate no dangers Not vvords vvith God vvell doing is respected His Citizens deeds difference from the strangers Me thinkes I heare the iudge sterne full of ire Pronounce my sentence to eternall fire Was I not cald to heav'ns roiall feast I vvas but came as one that little cared How came I brutish like vnreuerent beast Wanting a vvedding garment vnprepared Bold daring vvretch in such a sacred place To presse in sinnes cast suite rent torne and base But fearefull guerdon for so foule attempt All-seeing eies beheld my rags bevvray'd And most seuerely thence he did exempt Bind him both hand and foot his iustice said And cast him out no such may here partake The Lambe vvith Sion Sathan and the Lake Would I had neuer knowne Apostles place Would I had ne're ben messenger of truth
I Thirst fift word on Crosse our Sauiour spake Concluding last of greefes he suffered His last complaint thirst did for vvater make His last request for that he vttered His last torment vvas drinke of bitter gall That cruelty offends his tast vvithall By trauell once leauing Iudea land With vvearie iourney through Samaria He crau'd in Sichar at a vvomans hand Her gift of vvater his great thirst t'alay While she on tearmes delaies and hinderance finds Delaies begotten by vnwilling minds Yet after publicke in Ierusalem He did proclaime to all vvith thirst at strife That plenteously he had to succour them With flowing vvaters to eternall life Inuiting come true comming free attaine That vvhich vvho drinkes shall neuer thirst againe Such thirst-staunch riuers he to thirsty gaue That streames of grace heau'ns dew in soules did shower Yet for his owne thirst vvater he did craue At Iacobs vvell and at his dying hower To come and drinke he free inuites all first And at his last himselfe complaines of thirst As to our thirsty soules he tendereth His grace against all deadly thirst defence So to his thirst soules duty rendereth The purest vvater of obedience There is in him for vvhich our vvants do call There is in vs he vvill be seru'd vvithall To corporall thirst strong Sampson once did yeeld Vntill the chaw-bone of an Asse supplide him And Sisara that vanquish'd lost the field Complain'd of thirst to her vvhose tent did hide him And holy Dauid thirstie vvater needing Did long for Bethlem cesternes most exceeding But different farre soules thirst from bodies is Vnsatisfied vvith springs of vvorldly tast Grace gain'd by Christ doth only answere this A spirituall substance craues the like repast Those foodlesse soules famisht eternall pine Which are vnfed by th'essence pure diuine FINIS Consummatum est EVen vvhen the gaule of odious bitternesse Was offered to our Sauiour on a reed The bitter drinke of bitter vvickednesse The Iewish present to Christs thirsty need To comfort soules his gracious vvords extended And sounding mercy vttered All is ended What tongue till then durst such a speech deliuer That all tooke end vvhich holy vvrit foretold Only the tongue of sinnes true ransome giuer Was powerfull his owne mercies power t'vnfold Holy of holies most vprightly spake All's ended ending life sinnes end to make Not Dauid Esay Ieremy Elias Could in their times affirme sinne tooke conclusion They prophecied alluding to Messias That he should vvorke the viper sinnes confusion And end his life to end foule sinne lifes killer Of all predictions to be full fulfiller By vvhose owne mouth truths soundest euidence We heare sinnes end the old law satisfied How Mercy doth vvith Iustice dome dispence And how the Iudges sonne hath qualified His fathers rigor no vvay to be donne But by th'obedience of Gods dying sonne The vvord All's ended notice giues to all By death of Christ the Law was in exemption The Church began the Synagogue did fall And man obtained perfect full redemption His reconcilement vvas vvith God effected To glories throne by graces hand protected High Mysterie and deepe profound diuine That God by man for man should death sustaine As strange a speech if humane vvit define He being man should die and rise againe Yet God and man vvith God to end mans strife From life to death from death did rise to life Our vlcers curing captiue state inlarging From Sinnes infectious venome Sathans gaile Bonds of damnation canseld soules discharging Descending heau n to be on yearth our baile At price of life vvith blood bought and befriended Sealing saluations trust vvith All is ended FINIS Pater in manus tuas commendo Spiritum meum WIth blood-spent vvounds euen at the point to die The last bequest of heauens high testator Was all eternities rich Legacie His soule the soule of mans true mediator Vnto his Fathers hands he did commit Yeelding to Death by Death to vanquish it The Princely Phrophet on his dying bed Gaue charge vnto his heire apparant sonne To vvorke reuenge on martiall Ioabs head For murdring deed by his offence fore done T'abridge vvhat nature for his date intended And cut him off before his period ended Including vvith reuenge of Abners death The vvrongs that Simei to his person did When Absolon pursued his fathers breath Whose asse became his hangman as he rid And vvretched Simei cursing full of spight Cast stones at Dauid vvith most vvrath he might That testament Reuenge set hand vnto Imposing vvisdomes tutored prince the taske To execute vvhat he vvas vvilled do For shedding blood blood-shedders blood doth aske To Salomon this charge his father gaue Let them not passe in peace vnto their graue How different Dauids from our Sauiours seemes Whose vvill contain'd reuenge for others act Christ at his death forgiues sinners redeemes Solicites pardon for a murdring fact As Dauid dies vvith Sonne let them not liue So Christs yeelds breath vvith Father them forgiue First guiltlesse blood to God most high displeasing Was that iust mans vvhich dide by th'hand of Caine First guiltlesse blood Gods iustice cheefe appeasing Was that most righteous vvhom the Iewes haue staine And as the ones blood vvas a soules damnation So vvas the others many soules saluation The blood of Abel from earths bosome cride And sounded Iustice Iustice through the skies The blood of Iesus at the hower he di'de Vnto his father Mercy Mercy cries Whereby Gods title of reuenge till then Turn'd gracious father to repentant men FINIS The death of Death sinnes Pardon and soules Ransome O Sinfull soule the cause of Iesus passion Put sorrowes on and sighing view thy guilt Bring all thy thoughts fix thē on meditation weep drops of tears for streams of blood christ split Summon thy fostred sins selfe-hatched euils And cast them low as hell they are the deuils Seat vertue riuall vvhere vsurping vice Had seaz'd for Sathan to possesse thy heart And though the traitor flesh from grace intice Yet yeeld thy sauiour his deere purchast part The greatest loue that heav'n or earth dooth know Did heav'ns free-loue on hels bond-slaues bestow He left his fathers glorious right-hand seat To liue euen vvhere his earthly footstoole stands Vnmou'd thereto by our submisse intreat No suite of clay obtain'd it at his hands No power in vs no humane vvill that sought it It vvas his loue grace freely giuen vvrought it O loue of soules deaths victor true life-giuer What charitie did ouercome thee so To die that man might be eternall liuer Being thine aduerse disobedient foe For friends if one should die vvere rarely much But die for foes the vvorld affoords none such An ignominious death in shames account Of odious censure and contempts disgrace On Caluarie a stincking dunghill Mount For murderers the common fatall place There di'de the Angels brightnesse God and man There death vvas vanquisht and true life began Yet there began not Iesus suffering Nor in the garden vvith his soules vexation There he performd victorious conquering His
life vvas nothing els but stintlesse passion From cratch to crosse hee trod a painefull path Betwixt our guilt and Gods reuengefull vvrath What paines their paines to Iesus not impart What moment tortures vvant did he indure What anguish addes not to his greeued heart What minute vvas he sorrowlesse secure What age vvherein his troubles were neglected What people but his death cheefly affected In eies he suffred monefull showres of teares His face had spittings and dispightfull blowes Blasphemous speech vpbraid his sacred eares Most loathsome carrion stinckes entred his nose Gaule in his mouth the holiest hands were bound Hands feet heart head were nailed pierc'd crownd From his birth-hower vntill his life-lost blood What moment past vvhere in hee did not merite What minute scap'd imploiment vnto good Who did implore his grace and he deferre it How painfully his preaching spent the day How watchfully his nights vvere houres to pray Whom taught this Truth that him for truth beleeued Though truth vvithout his presence ne're vvas knowne With whom did he conuerse and vvas vngreeued How ill intreated euen amongst his owne Though foxe and bird could find both hole and nest Where found his head reposed place for rest Pouertie hee indured in the manger Warre vvith the tempter in the vvildernesse Exile in Aegypt forc'd by tirants danger And on the vvay o're-painfull vvearinesse In all his speech and actions contradictions Laden vvith vvrongs burdned vvith dire afflictions VVith hungers sword food-giuer vvas acquainted And that the stone-presenting deuill saw At Iacobs vvell vvith thirst he vvel-nie fainted VVhile pinching vvoman stood on tearmes to draw All vvants and vvoes impos'd vpon him still And his obedience suffered euery ill Traitor-led troopes by night did apprehend him Haling him cruell to the iudgement hall VVhere all inflicted torments did offend him And mockeries to greeue his soule vvithall There Iudge vvas iudg'd king scorned priest abus'd And of all Iust the Iust vniustly vs'd Thence to his death vvith clamours shouts and cries Theeues at his side the torturing hangman by him His crosse his burden borne before his eies Hart-launcing Longius the Centurion nie him His friends aloofe inuiron'd round vvith foes Thus vnto death soules loue sweet Iesus goes Victoriously vpon the dunghill field He manag'd combate vvith the roaring Lion Old serpent death and hell at once did yeeld All vanquisht by triumphant lambe of Sion Performing in that glorious bloodie fight The euer conquest of infernall might FINIS The wonders at Christs death THat instant hower the vvorlds Redeemer di'de And breathed out his soule vpon the crosse Heav'ns glorious lampe abating all his pride Bewail'd in blacke his murdred makers losse Turning his splendant beames of gold to drosse The Moone like suted in a sable vveed Mourned for sinnes outragious bloody deed VVhen Iosua Israels valiant captaine praid And in his praier coniuring did command The firmaments bright eie stand still it staid Till he vvas victor of the vvickeds band Waighting vpon Gods battaile then in hand Yeelding the richest treasure of his light Lengthning the vvant of day vvith day-made night But here reflecting light to darkesome change Shaming to see vvhat shamelesse sinne had done VVas more admir'd to alter kind so strange Then vvhen he ceas'd his posting course to run Loue to Gods forces his bright staying vvonne But now beholding Sathans power preuailing He turn'd the day to night in darknesse vvailing At death of Christ appear'd foure signes of vvonder To euidence diuine and God-like might The first The temples vaile did rent in sunder Next Sunne and Moone extinguisht both their light Affoording darknesse to blind Iewish sight Then flintie stones deuiding part in twaine And Saints from graues reuiv'd to life againe What faithlesse Iew or gracelesse Atheist can With impious tongue sound out blasphemous breath Affirming Christ to be but only Man VVhose dietie vvrought vvonders after death VVonders in heauen strange miracles on earth Of each beholders heart feare tooke possession And taught the Pagan captain Truths confession Thou canst not say those vvorkes vvere Magickes art From slaunders charge Christs power diuine is free His soule vvas fled and did before depart His liuelesse bodie euery eie did see No charming vvords by dead tongues vttred be Thou must of force confesse true God-head by it Or say that Mallice vvilfull doth denie it FINIS The Funerals of Iesus WHen Iosephs suite had got the Iudges leaue To take sweet Iesus from the bloodie crosse VVhose blessed life Iewes blindnesse did bereaue To our eternall gaine their endlesse losse Christs night-disciple aidfull did agree To take his bodie from that guiltie tree The Virgine mother cheefe in mournefull teares VVith holy Maries twaine that stintlesse wept To Caluarie both sheet and odours beares There must the sacred funerall be kept VVhō hearts did loue him vvith their feet they sought Teares in their eies hands myrrhe and aloes brought Their greefes and labours they deuide in parts Partaking each t'affoord some needfull thing True faith and loue vvas seated in their hearts On shoulders ladders armes the shroud doe bring Their hands haue ointments eies with teares abounds Teares well imploi'd to wash his bloodie wounds With tired steps they ouertooke the place Where store of vveeping dew moistned the ground The Sunne vvas hid nights darke approcht apace Greefes did surprise dolours increase abound Whom infidels nail'd vp did pierce and crowne Faithfull from Crosse act holy taking downe Before the same to signe a perfect zeale They cast themselues so low as earth gaue leaue In reuerence of those vvounds that only heale All feauer'd soules blood-salue from thence receaue Which vvorship vvell perform'd they sighing rise And towards the crosse all guide plaint-pouring eies The honourable two old aged men Aduis'd the rest respect vvhat scanting time Remain'd to annoint and shroud and burie then Their ladders raising vp the crosse they clime Teares sighs and sobs descend ech step they goe While eies wet Orators repli'de below On Iacobs ladder ioifull Angels sing No iarre their heav'nly musicke did restraine On Iosephs ladder teares to top they bring And mournefull sobs send sorrowes downe againe Those heav'nly quires partake no tunes like this Christs bitter death vvas faultie mans amisse When hands and feet they carefull did vn-naile Letting the body downe conieal'd in gore This vvas the obiect Visage wan and pale Eies turn'd in head his flesh all rent and tore Scull boared through thornes spurting out his braines Bones out of ioint and full of broken vaines Vpon the ground the holy corpes being laid Most reuer'nt vvhere the shrouding sheet was spred His blessed Mother full of vvoes dismaid Renew'd her plaints vvith showers of teares she shed Whom Iudas sold for thirty pence aliue To buy him dead her pearled drops did striue The taske of Sorrowes equall to deuide At Iesus head laments his pensiue mother Ioseph with Nichodemus at one side And both the Maries place them at the other Thus bout the mangled
THE BETRAYING OF CHRIST IVDAS in despaire The seuen Words of our Sauior on the Crosse. WITH Other Poems on the Passion LONDON Printed by Adam Istip 1598. TO THE RIGHT WORshipfull Sir Nicholas Walsh Knight cheefe Iustice of her Maiesties court of common pleas in Ireland and of her Highnesse counsaile there ALbeit right Worshipfull that the art of Poesie is in sort dealt withall as Cacus once vsed Hercules oxen when he drew them backewards vp the hill being customarily in these daies wrested and turned to the fooleries of Loue and such like base subiect of fancies abortiue births conuerting Poetries imploiment to follies vse and wit ill spent runnes violent that way with the current of errour Yet hath it a natiue diuine off-spring and issue wherof partaking kindly floates with a calme tempered gale from all miscarying wracke to the harbour of a quiet applause The vpright and best approoued censure I presume gains your Worships vertuous allowance to whose wisdome and grauitie associate with an heroicall sprite I dedicate affections testimony by these vnpolished lines crauing your fauourable fault-shadowing view if in the manner any thing appeare defectiue trusting that as a fruitfull tree the more it is fruitladen the more it declineth so your plenteous accōplished vertues wil humble them in daining to accept the loue I reuerence you withall wishing your Worship Worlds prosperitie and Heauens happinesse Yours in the best endeuours of affection S. R. The betraying of Jesus EVen vvhen no beauties of the garnisht skie Had left the view of Heauen-makers vvonder And Phebus steeds were gallop'd posting by Their hasty speed had got the vvorlds half vnder Yea eu'ry creature that had life or sprite Mourn'd at the darke approch of vgly night An host of swartest sable foggie clouds Wrapt in faire Cinthia from her siluer shine Mantling her brightnesse vvith their obscure shrouds As though heav'ns lampe vvere come to latest fine Her cannapie of starres vvas eke vnseene Where on she vvonted mount imperious Queene The airy vvinged people gone to rest Had clear'd vvith day not left a note vnpaid All other creatures that might be exprest In caues and holes for nights repose vvere laid Of vvild or tame none raung'd or ran astray But rauenous by darke that hunt for pray Thicke mistie vapours vvere dispersed foule Prohibiting day-followers to be seene Dispensing only vvith the shriking Owle And eies that Nature put lights hate betweene Such as vvere banisht from the face of day To lurke the couert shamelesse night away Then child of vtter darknesse lights offence Intituled The lost sonne of perdition Hired against his Lord for thirty pence To be a traitor vnder hels commission In this nights time did rebell troupes increase To manage armes against the Prince of peace Toward Cedron brooke th'accursed leader goes With horse and foot vveapon'd vvith launce and speare His blessed maister vs'd that vvalke he knowes Vnworthy vvretch had oft ben vvith him there Oft as a friend the place he did frequent But now foe-harted trecherous of intent As in a garden Adam disobayed And there became a captiue to the diuell So in a garden Iesus vvas betrayed To suffer death for Adams former euill Within a garden Adams crime offended For vvhich Christ vvas in garden apprehended And as in pleasures garden at the fall For Adams clothing dead beasts skins God gaue In euidence that death vvent ouer all And that his garment might presage his graue So Christ in garden tombe and dead mans shrowd Defray'd our debts vvith paiment best alowd Ouer the brooke to garden they repaire Swift vvere their feet about the sheading blood Euen to the place that Iesus vs'd for praier Where he intreated grace for sinners good Where he consulted to redeeme and saue Thither they came resolu'd his life to haue With easie search the guiltlesse may be found Whose quiet thoughts and peace vnite in one A voice Whom seeke you threw them all to ground A power diuine to make true godhead knowne Iesus came forth encountred them vvith breath And they at once fell backward all to th'earth Had then his vvill consented to his power If Iustice had appear'd and mercy hid They had descended hell that sinfull hower Like Corah Dathan and Abiram did Where th'one vvas seandale to the seruant done The other vvas rebellion gainst the sonne While Ieroboam stretcht his threatning hand Right insolent and full of daring pride To stay the Prophet giuing strict command Iudgement laid hold on him his hand vvas dryde But these in armes and violent enterprise Though throwne to ground doe vnrepentant rise Deaths harbenger vnto Damasco towne Then bloody-mind Saint-persecuting Saul Was with like powreful voice from heauen thrown down But to conuersion grace imploy'd his fall With greater fauour blisse can none acquaint Then crowne a greeuous sinner glorious Saint But these vvhose hearts vvere hardned sight extinct Haters of knowledge children of the night Atvvar vvith God in league vvith Sathan linckt Grosse darknesse followers shunners of the light Stiffe necked stubborne and rebellious Iewes Contemne saluation offered grace refuse Wisdomes beloued Israels vvisest king Doth say the vvicked cannot sleeping rest Till they are pleased vvith some ill done thing The vvorser deed the doer likes for best A minute spent in good seems long loth'd day A night of sinne but moment stolne avvay How toilesome tedious had that vvatching bin If vertue had persuaded thereunto But Owle-eied they became to compasse sin Fit vvas the time so foule a fact to do That vvork of darknesse ioin'd vvith darknesse power Might meet together all in darknesse hower When they should rest their malice not indur'd it For malice neuer closeth sleeping eies And vvhen they should not vvake reuenge procur'd it Reuenge doth hourely some reuenge deuise Who rides the deuill hath no curbe they say For malice drawes and fury spurs away Th'vnseemely vprore to the night vnkind Happening as frightfull as in fires danger Caus'd him make hast that left his clothes behind Hardly entreated like vnwelcome stranger For in retire his case like Iosephs stands Who left his garment in his mistresse hands T'was no offence springing from his intent That did demerite violent force resist him Yet pawn'd he shirt for skin before he vvent Gladdest vvhen naked gone that rage had mist him What furies guided this misguided swarme To bend their force against vnthoughted harme When traitor meets these quaint deceits he had In gesture kind imbracements vvith a kisse In vvords All haile God saue thee or be glad Yet murder blood and death lies hid in this This cup of gold did poisons draught begin This greene had serpents lurking hid vvithin The vvord All haile seru'd Ioab to salute Good vvords do often make for ill pretence But Abner found a mortall stab the fruit While falshood spake twas murder did insence Like that vvas this of Iudas false intent By vvord God saue the deed Destroy vvas ment All haile the Angell reuerently did vse With