Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

They gave large Money to the Soldiers

Richard Crashaw (W.) (c. 1613–1649)

THE SOLDIER’S silence is’t with money bought?

Thy gift will tell a tale, though they say nought.

Whatever with a bribe thou fain wouldst hide,

Most shamefully thou spreadest far and wide.