Eternally you would not grieve.”
With one accord the people said:
“Henceforth no Baptist’s blood we’ll shed.”
Then said an aged sire:
“Had you not acted ’gainst my will,
This Baptist would be living still.”
The hangman too was heard to say:
“’Tis guiltless blood I’ve shed to-day.”
Then said a yeoman old:
“The Anabaptist’s mouth did laugh,