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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 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 the could eat no meat, but was very melancholy and ſad, Judas ſeeing her ſo, asked her very earneſtly what was the matter of her trouble, or if he was any ways the cauſe of her ſorrow? She ſaid no, he was not the cauſe as ſhe knew of; ſo he being very carneſt to know, at laſt the told him, That ſhe dreamed two decams, 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 feas. And not two years ago, my husband's brains was knocked on with a ſtone, as he was walking in his garden. This I looked upon a juſt judgment for 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 a ſea, by ſome that did belong to the iſland of Iſcariot, and likewiſe told her how he had killed the prince of Iſcariot's ſon, 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 mothers and ſo came way