Et celles de meilleure forge,
Pour te couper à coup la gorge;
Ou si tu aimes mieux te pendre,
Voici lacs et cordes à vendre.
The offer here of the bodkins and the allumettes reminds us of the speech of Falconbridge:—
If thou would’st drown thyself,
Put but a little water in a spoon,
And it shall be as all the ocean,
Enough to stifle such a villain up.
Judas chooses the rope, and hangs himself forthwith; ‘and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out:’ which account is explained by an early tradition, that being found and cut down, his body was thrown over the parapet of the Temple into the ravine below, and, in the fall, was riven and dashed to pieces.