treated as the king’s own child, and at a proper age educated well, and at last became a man of learning and parts, and behaved himself so wisely, that the king made him his principal steward.
Judas being arrived at this rank, still coveted greater, and remembering the queen one day said, That if the prince her son died, Judas should be her heir, he therefore set about contriving to kill him, accordingly professed great love and friendship for him; and one day being walking together, Judas took occasion to quarrel with the prince, and maliciously slew him, thinking all would go well with him if he was dead.
Behold the Serpent, which the king
Long nourished in his breast,
Grown warm, strikes forth his baneful sting,
And robb’d him of his rest.
