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Et primo venient Judei adducentes Jesum ad Annam et Caypham; et primo incipiet
PRIMUS JUDEUS
Syr byshopps, here we have brought
a wretch that mych woe hase wrought
and would bringe our lawe to naught—
right soe hath hit spurned.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Yea, wydewhere we have him sought,
and deare alsoe we have him bought,
for here manye mens thought
to him he hase turned.

ANNAS
A, janglinge Jesus, art thou nowe here?
Nowe thou may prove thy postie powere,
whether thy cause be cleane and cleare;
thy Christhood we must knowe.

CAYPHAS
Meethinke a maistrye that yt were
other for pennye or prayere
to shutt him of his dangere
and such sleight to shewe.

ANNAS
Syr, yt is needfull—this saye I—
that one man dye witterlye
all the people to forbye
so that the perish nought.

TERTIUS JUDEUS
Syr Cayphas, herken nowe to mee!
This babelavaunt would our kinge bee,
whatsoever hee sayes nowe befor thee.
I hard him saye full yore
that prince hee was of such postee,
destroye the temple well might hee
and buyld yt up in dayes three
right as yt was before.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
Yea, sycker, that I hard him saye,
he maye not denye by no waye;
and also, that he was God vereye,
Emanuell and messye.
He maye not nycke this ne say neye,
for more then fortye, in good faye,
that in the temple were that daye
harden as well as I.

CAYPHAS
Saye, Jesu, to this what sayne yee?
Thow wottest nowe what is put on thee.
Put forth, prince, thy postie
and perceive what the preven.
What devill! One worde speakes not hee!
Yett, Jesu, here I conjure thee;
if thou be Goddes Sonne, before mee
answere to that the meven.

JESUS
As thou sayes, right soe saye I.
I am Goddes Sonne almightye,
and here I tell thee truelye
that me yet shall thou see
sytt on Goddes right hand him bye,
mankynd in clowdes to justefye.

CAYPHAS

PRIMUS JUDEUS
Buffetes him that makes this bere,
for to God may he not bee dere
that owr lawe so destroyes.

CAYPHAS
Distroye shall hee not hit.
Yee wretches, ye wanton wytt!
Found that freake a fitt
and gurd him in the face.

ANNAS
Despice him, spurne and spyt.
Let see, or you sytt,
whoe hase happe to hitt
that thus us harmed hase.

Tunc Judei statuent Jesum in cathedram, et dicat torquendo
PRIMUS JUDEUS
For his harminge here
[nighe] will I nere
this fameland freare
that makes our lawe false.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Hee ys, withowt were,
to the devyll full deare.
Spytt we in fere
and buffett him alls.

TERTIUS JUDEUS
(exputans)
Yee herden him in this place nowe
howe he lyed hase nowe;
in mydest his face nowe
fowle will I fyle him.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
(exputans)
Passe he shall a pase nowe.
For God he him makes nowe,
gettes he no grace nowe
when I may beguyle him.

PRIMUS JUDEUS
(dans alapam)
Fye upon the, freyke!
Stowpe nowe, nowe, and creake.
Thy breanes to breake
am I reddye bowne.

Tunc Secundus Judeus dans alapam velando faciem Jesu.
SECUNDUS JUDEUS
His face will I steake
with a cloth, ere he creake,
and us all wreake
for my warrysonn.

TERTIUS JUDEUS
And thou be messye
and loth for to lye,
whoe smote thee crye,
yf that thou be Christ.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
(percutiens)
Though he sore stryke
a buffett shall byte;
may no man myne white,
though I do him woo.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
(percutiens)
And moe yett I maye.
I shall soone assaye
and shewe large paye,
thou prince, on thy pate.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
Yf he saye naye,
I shall, in faye,
laye on. I dare laye
yt is not to late.

Tunc cessabunt ab alapis, et dicit Cayphas.
CAYPHAS
Lordinges, what is your best read?
This man hase served to be dead,
and yf hee lightly thus be lead,
our lawe cleane will sleepe.

ANNAS
Syr, yt is fullye myne advise,
leade we him to the hye justice.
Syr Pilate is both warre and wise
and hase the lawe to keepe.

Tunc Cayphas et Annas et Judei adducunt Jesum ad Pilatum. Dicat
CAYPHAS
Syr Pilate, here we bringe one
that false is, and our elders fonne.
Tribute may be given nonne
to Caesar for him here.
Whersoever he and his fellowe gonne,
they turne the folke to them eychone.
Nowe aske we donne here him upon
of that he hasse power.

ANNAS
Sycker he is our elders foe.
Whersoever he goeth, to or froo,
that he is Christ, and kinge also,
he preaches apertlye.
Wist Caesar that, he would be woo,
such a man and we let goo.
Therfore to dampne him we binne throo,
lest he us all destroye.

PILATUS

JESUS
So thou sayes; men heare maye
a kinge that thou me mase.

PILATUS
Noe cause fynd I, in good faye,
to doe this man to death todaye.

CAYPHAS
Syr, the people, us to mispaye,
converted to him all hee hase.

ANNAS
Yea, all the land of Gallilee
cleane turned to him hase hee.
Therfore [dome] nowe aske we,
this false man to do downe.

PILATUS

PRIMUS JUDEUS
Him shall he have full hastelye,
and lead him thidder anon will I.
Come thou forth with thy rybaldrye
and speake with our kinge.

Tunc ibunt duo Judei adducentes Jesum ad Herodem; et dicat
PRIMUS JUDEUS
Syr kinge, here Pilate hath you sent
a shrewe that our lawe hasse shent,
for to have his judgment
or he hens awaye wend.

HERODES

Jesus nihil respondebit; et dicat
HERODES

Tunc Judei induent eum veste alba et dicat
PRIMUS JUDEUS
Have this, Jesu, upon thee—
a worshipfull weede, as thinkes mee,
of the kinges liverye
that nowe is on thee light!

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Put thee forth. Thou may not flee.
Nowe thou art in thy royaltie!
Syr Herode, kinge, beleave on thee
and grantmercye this [guyfte].

Tunc exeunt duo Judei ad Pilatum adducentes Jesum in veste alba, et dicat
PRIMUS JUDEUS
Syr Pilate, here the kinge hath sent
Jesu agayne, and, syth we went,
he hasse forgiven his male intent
for thy deede todaye.

PILATUS
Yea, fault in him can I fynd none,
ne Herode, as seemes hereupon.
Therfore is best we lett him gonne
whither he will his waye.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Naye, all, all we cryen with on voyce,
nayle him, nayle him to the crosse.

PILATUS

TERTIUS JUDEUS
Naye, suffer the death worthye is hee;
and thereupon all cryen wee,
and Barabas reserved.

PILATUS
What shall I doe with Jesu here
that Christ is called, and kinge in feere?

QUARTUS JUDEUS
Nayle him on the crosse in all manere,
for so he hath deserved.

PILATUS
Nowe sythen I see you so fervent
and shapen that he shalbe shent,
wash I will here in your present,
waxe ye never so woodd.
Yee shall all wytt verament
that I am cleane and innocent
and for to sheede in no intent
this rightwise mans bloodd.

Tunc Pilatus lavabit manus, et Cayphas et Annas recedent cum Pilato; et dicat Pilatus.
PILATUS
Yee prelates here everychonne,
what will ye do? Lett him gonne?

CAYPHAS
Nayle, nayle him to the crosse anonne
and deeme him or thou leeve.

PILATUS
Takes ye him, that binne so gryme,
and after your lawe deeme ye him.

ANNAS
Nay, that is not lawfull, lyth ne lymme
for us no man to reeve.

PILATUS
What devill of hell ys this to saye?
Jesu, tell me, I thee praye,
arte thou kinge—saye yea or naye—
of Jewes by auncetrye?

JESUS
Whither hopes thou yt so be,
or other men tould hit the?

PILATUS

JESUS
My realme in this world, as say I,
ys [not]—but were, witterlye,
with Jewes were I not tayne.
And if my realme in this world were,
stryve I would with you nowe here
and lead with me such powere
should pryve you of your praye.
But my might in this manere
will I not prove, ne nowe appere
as worldly kinge; my cause uncleare
were then, in good faye.

PILATUS
Ergo, a kinge thou art, or was.

JESUS
That thou sayes, yt is no lesse.
But nowe I tell thee here expresse
that kinge I am and be maye.
In world I came to beare wytnes
of soothnes, and therfore borne I was,
and all that leeven soothnes
take heede to that I saye.

PILATUS
What is soothnes, tell thou mee?

JESUS
Soothnes came from Goddes see.

PILATUS
In yearth then hath trueth no postie
by thyne opinion?

JESUS
Howe should on yearth bee
while so deemed in yearth is hee
of them that have non authoritie
in yearth, agaynst reason?

PILATUS
Lordinges, I fynd no cause, iwys.
to dampne this man that here ys.

CAYPHAS
Pilate, he hath donne mych amysse.
Let him never passe.
By Moyses lawe liven wee
and after that lawe dead shall hee bee,
for apertly preached hase hee
Goddes Sonne that he was.

ANNAS
Yea, Pilate, he that makes him appere
other to kinge or kinges feere
withsayth Caesar of his power,
and so we have donne with him.
And whoso calles himselfe a kinge here
reves Caesar of his power.

PILATUS
Anone goe scourge this losingere
and beat him lymme and lythe.

PRIMUS JUDEUS
Come nowe with care,
freake, for thy fare.
On thy bodye bare
strokes shalt thou beare.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Cast of thy ware,
all thy clothes, yare.
Start nowe and stare.
This stalward I would stere.

Tunc spoliabunt ipsum et ligabunt ad columnam; et dicat
TERTIUS JUDEUS
Nowe he is bounden.
Be he never so wandon,
soone he shalbe fownden
with flappes in feere.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
In woo he ys wounden
and his grave is grounden.
No lade unto London
such lawe can him lere.

Tunc posteaquam flagellaverunt eum, postea induunt eum purpurea ponentes in cathedram, et dicat
PRIMUS JUDEUS
Nowe, syth hee kinge ys,
whyte his clothinge ys.
Beggere, I bringe thee this,
thee for to weare.

Tunc Secundus Judeus ponens coronam spineam super capite eius et dicat
SECUNDUS JUDEUS
All in lythinge this ys
that of ould spronge ys;
of thornes this thinge ys,
thee for to were.

TERTIUS JUDEUS
Nowe thou hasse a weede,
have here a reede.
A scepter I thee bede,
a kinge for to bee.

QUARTUS JUDEUS
Hervye, take heede!
Thus must I neede
for my foule deede
kneele upon knee.

PRIMUS JUDEUS
Hayle, kinge of Jewes!
That so many men shewes,
rybauld, nowe thee rewes,
with all thy reverence.

SECUNDUS JUDEUS
With yron on him hewes
and his hyde hewes.
An oyntment thee newes
for thyne offence.

TERTIUS JUDEUS
To wryte in his face—
thou that the kinge mase,
nowe my nose hase
good spice of the newe!

QUARTUS JUDEUS
With a hard grace
thou came to this place.
Passe thou this rase,
sore shalt thou rewe.

PILATUS
Lordinges, here you may se
your kinge all in his royaltie.

CAYPHAS
Nay, syr, forsooth, no kinge have wee
save the emperour of Rome pardee;
and but thou nayle him to the tree,
the emperour full wrath wilbee.

ANNAS
All we sayen right as sayes hee.
Deme him while thou hase tyme.

PILATUS
Whether of them will ye have,
Jesus Christ or Baraban?

CAYPHAS
Naye, Jesus this traytour that is tane
must nayld be to the tree,
and lett Baraban goe his waye.

PILATUS
Take him to you nowe as I saye,
for save him I ney maye,
undonne but I would bee.

PRIMUS JUDEUS
This [dome] is at an end.
Nowe read I that we wend
this shrewe for to shend
a little here besyde.

Secundus Judeus, ponens crucem super dorsum eius, dicat.
SECUNDUS JUDEUS
Here shalt thou not lend.
Come hither and behind
thy backe for to bende.
Here may thou not abyde.

THE DAMSELL
(to Peter)
Was not thou with Jesus of Nazareth?

PETER
I knowe him not, nor what thou sayest.

THE DAMSELL
Syrs, syckerlye I tell you playne,
this man here is on of them
that was with him in the garden;
I knowe yt to be trewe.

PETER
Yt is not trewe, so mote I thee.
I knowe him not by any degree.

THE JEWE
One of [them] thou art assuredlye,
and thou art alsoe of Gallilee.
Thy speach clearly bewrayeth thee
in wytnes of us all.

PETER
In fayth and trueth, that ys no soe.
Shame have I, and myckell woo,
yf ever I did him before knowe
or keepe him companye.