Fishing from the earliest times - Blog

—SAKKAR—JUDAS ISCARIOT 445this shield because on earth he had once given a piece of clothto a naked beggar, and so, even unto him, a deed of charity wasnot allowed by the Almighty to pass without reward. ^When, in Matthew Arnold's poem, " St. Brandan sails thenorthern main " and comes across Judas on an iceberg, thefishes occur not, but the cloth appears :" And in the street a leper sateShivering with fever, naked, old ;Sand raked his sores from heel to pate,The hot wind fevered him five-fold.He gazed upon me as I passedAnd murmur'd : Help me or I die !To the poor wretch my cloak I cast.Saw him look eased, and hurried by."For which act of charity Judas was permitted by the angelevery Christmas night to" Go hence and cool thyself an hour."^ R. Blakey, op. cit., p. 145 {more suo), gives as his authority merely" one of the poetical effusions of the Anglo-ls^orman Trouveres."