LXV.

They multiply and magnify   Men’s gross Iniquities; They draw down wrath (as Scripture saith)   out of God’s treasuries. Thus all their ways Christ open lays   to Men and Angels’ view, And as they were makes them appear   in their own proper hue.

LXVI. [57]

Thus he doth find of all Mankind,   that stand at his left hand, No mother’s son but hath misdone,   and broken God’s command. All have transgress’d, even the best,   and merited God’s wrath, Unto their own perditi-on   and everlasting scath.

LXVII. [58]

Earth’s dwellers all, both great and small,   have wrought iniquity, And suffer must (for it is just)   Eternal misery. Amongst the many there come not any,   before the Judge’s face. That able are themselves to clear,   of all this cursed Race.

_Hypocrites plead for themselves._