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“ And Judas likewise is my name.
Forsooth indeed you are to blame
Your Master did you not betray?
And hang yourself when you had done?
Where'er you bide I will not stay:
Go then, you knave, let me alone.
Whatever I be, l'il be your guide,
Because you know not well the way,
Wad ye but once in me confide,
I'll do all friendship that I may.
What would you me? where do you dwell? ”

“ Will ye go forward and be bold,
And mend your pace till we win in.
I fear your inn will be to warm,
For too much hotness is not best:
Such hotness there may do me harm,
And keep me that I do not rest. ”

“ Of sinners all, none like to me,
So much the more thy praise shall last.
Thy praising me is not persite,
My saints shall praise me evermore,
In sinners I have no delight,
Such sacrifice I do abhor. ”

“ Thou look'st so black, it seems to me
Thou ne'er dost wash they ugly face.
If we had water here to drink,
We would not care for washing them;
Into those flames and filthy stink
We burn with fire unto the doom. ”

“ If weakly I can but believe,
But from this place I'll never go.
But Peter said, How can that be,
How dar'st thou look him in the face?
Such horrid sinners even as thee,
Can have no courage to get grace. ”

“ She had no will of such a guest,
To lose her pains and so be blam'd,
Now good St Paul, said Magdalene,
Because you are a learned man,
Go and convince this woman then,
For I have done all that I can ”

“ Giving an account of her death, and of her journey to heaven; how on the road she fell in with Judas, who led her to the gates of hell, and what converse she had with the devil, who would not let her in: also, how at last she got to heaven, and the difficulties she encountered before she got admittance there.
The whole being an allegorical Dialogue, containing nothing but that which is recorded in Scripture for our Example. ”

“ With lasting pleasures laid in store,
O er death and hell victoriously.
FINIS.
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”