Our firstë foe, the serpent Satanas, That hath in Jewës’ heart his waspë’s nest, Upswell’d and said, “O Hebrew people, alas! Is this to you a thing that is honést, 3818 That such a boy shall walken as him lest In your despite, and sing of such senténce, Which is against your lawë’s reverence?”

From thencëforth the Jewës have conspired This innocent out of the world to chase; A homicidë thereto have they hired, That in an alley had a privy place, And, as the child gan forth by for to pace, This cursed Jew him hent, 3819 and held him fast, And cut his throat, and in a pit him cast.