The thief heard never of me teaching,
My heavenly precepts and my laws,
But thou was daily at my preachings,
Both heard and saw, and yet miskaws.
Master, quoth she, the scriptures shows,
The Jewish woman which play’d the lown,
Conform unto the Hebrew laws,
Was brought to thee to be put down,
But nevertheless thou lett’st her go,
And made the Pharisees afraid.