W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.
Before Pilate
Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)‘And he answered them nothing.’—MARK XV. 3.
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Nothing, wee owe all things that bee.
God spoke once when Hee all things made,
Hee sav’d all when Hee Nothing said.
The world was made of Nothing then;
’Tis made by Nothing now againe.