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

Herod devoured of Worms

Richard Crashaw (G.) (c. 1613–1649)

ACTS XII. 23.

BEHOLD a god! full voic’d the people cry;

Not man, but god, with shouts they him attest,

What kind of god he is, ye worms, reply—

A crowd that know the secrets of his breast.