Boyet. To make Judas hang himself.
Hol. Begin, sir; you are my elder.
Biron. Well followed: Judas was hang'd on an elder.
Love's Labours Lost, v, 2.
[681]. Lucifer with legions. The story of Lucifer's rebellion and fall was extremely popular in the middle ages, and particularly among the Anglo-Saxons, who, in the fine poem ascribed to Cædmon, had given it almost as much detail as Milton had done at a later date. This legend is related in prose in an Anglo-Saxon tract in MS. Cotton. Vespas. D. xiv, fol. 2.
[682]. The second Trin. Col. MS. has, Leride it in hevene, | and as the lovelokest | to loke on, aftir oure Lord.
[697]-[704]. Instead of these lines, we find the following in Whitaker's text:
Lord, why wolde he tho,
Thulke wrechede Lucifer,
Lepen on a-lofte