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 Now at one time when they were both in bed, Judas called for a ſhirt to ſhift himſelf, as he took off his ſhirt, ſhe eſpied a black ſpot upon his back, the ſame form, and in the ſame manner as her ſon had, that her firſt huſband ſent in a boat adrift to the ſea ; at which ſhe gave a great ſigh, and roſe out of bed, when ſhe was at dinner ſhe could eat no meat, but was very melancholy and ſad, Judas ſeeing her fo, aſked her very earneſtly what was the matter of her trouble, or if he was any ways the cauſe of her forrow ? She ſaid no, he was not the cauſe as ſhe knew of ; ſo he being very earneſt to know, at laſt ſhe told him, That ſhe dreamed two dreams, when ſhe was firſt with child, that the child that was in her womb, ſhould betray the Saviour of the world. After the child was born, being two or three months old, my huſband and I conſented, with the advice of friends, that a boat ſhould be built, and ordered all manner of conveniency on board of it, and alſo with his name written in a piece of paper pinned at his breaſt, and ſet the boat and him adrift to the mercy of the ſeas. And not two years ago, my huſband's brains was knocked out with a ſtone, as he was walking in his garden. This I looked upon as a juſt judgment for doing fo barbarouſly with an innocent child : and when I ſaw the black ſpot upon your back, it put me in mind of my child : Now when Judas heard her lamentable ſtory he cry'd out, Oh I am the man! So began to tell her how that he was taken in a boat at ſea, by ſome that did belong to the iſland of Iſcariot, and likewiſe told her how he had killed the prince of Iſcariot's fon, that brought him up ; and he was the man that killed as he underſtood the man that was his father in the garden ; now I am married to you my mother; and ſo came