_much._ _Scribe_.

Alas the time that this betyd! _happened._ Right bitter care doth me embrace.
All my sins be now unhid, Yon man before me them all doth trace.
If I were once out of this place, To suffer death great and vengeance able,[15] I will never come before his face, Though I should die in a stable.
Upon this follows _The Raising of Lazarus_; next _The Council of the Jews_, to which the devil appears as a Prologue, dressed in the extreme of the fashion of the day, which he sets forth minutely enough in his speech also.

_The Entry into Jerusalem; The Last Supper; The Betrayal; King Herod; The Trial of Christ; Pilate's Wife's Dream_ come next; to the subject of the last of which the curious but generally accepted origin is given, that it was inspired by Satan, anxious that Jesus should not be slain, because he dreaded the mischief he would work when he entered Hades or Hell, for there is no distinction between them either here or in the Apocryphal Gospel whence the _Descent into Hell_ is taken.

Then follow _The Crucifixion_ and _The Descent into Hell_--often called the _Harrowing of Hell_--that is, the _making war upon_ or _despoiling of hell_,[16] for which the authority is a passage in the Gospel of Nicodemus, full of a certain florid Eastern grandeur.

I need hardly remind my readers that the Apostles' Creed, as it now stands, contains the same legend in the form of an article of faith.