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

On St. Peter Cutting off Malchus His Eare

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613–1649)

JOHN XVIII. 10.

WELL PETER, dost thou wield thy active sword;

Well for thyselfe, I meane, not for thy Lord.

To strike at eares is to take heed there bee

No witness, Peter, of thy perjury.