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 only thing to be done was to deceive her husband, and get this child buried under the sanction of Judas's body.

The father came home at night, and finding his wife in tears, soon guessed the dismal cause; and inquiring of the servants, they with dissembled grief told him, that the child died in the morning soon after his departure. The man was much affected with the loss of his child, and thinking to prevent his wife's grief by the sight of the body he had it removed to a kinsman's house, and in a day or two interred it from thence, believing it to be his son.

By this time Providence had conducted Judas, alive & well, upon the coast of of Iscariot, a kingdom in Palastine, where Pheophilus the king often used to recreate himself, in beholding the ships pass and repass at sea. It happened that the very day that Judas was cast on the coast, the king and his nobles came on that diversion, & as they were standing on the top of the rock,