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 looking into the sea, the king espied a little boat floating upon the water, and thinking it to be a chest of some wrecked ship, he ordered a servant to put out a boat and fetch it; which being done, and brought to the king, he ordered it to be broke open; when to their great surprise, they found a lovely babe, who look,d up, and smiled in the king's face. Then said the king to the child, WELCOME MY OWN CHILD; and expressed much joy in being providentially sent to preserve the babe’s life, and taking it up in his arms, said, if thou wert a child begat by me, I could not esteem or value thee more. Then he espied about its neck the aforementioned parchment, viz:

Well, said the king, as thy name is Judas, I will now double name thee, and then called him Judas Iscariot, because he found him near the coast of that