CLXXV.

_Ego sum Via. Ad Judaeos spretores Christi._ Joan. xiv. 6.

O sed nec calcanda tamen: pes improbe, pergis?

Improbe pes, ergo hoc coeli erat ire viam?

Ah pereat, Judaec ferox, pes improbus ille,

Qui coeli tritam sic facit esse viam.

_I am the Way. To the Jewish despisers of Christ._

Not to be trampled on, though: vile foot, stay;

Vile foot, is this to tread the heavenly Way?

Let that fierce Jewish foot to death be given,

Which thus wears out the blessed Way to heaven. R. WI.

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