And now [art] thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;
Ver. 11. And now thou art cursed.] The Pope contrarily blesses and saints traitors to their country, and murderers of their natural sovereigns; as Ravilliac, and others his assassins, those sworn swordsmen of the devil. Aphonsus Diazius, who killed his own brother for the cause of religion, as above said, fled to Rome, and was there highly commended for his zeal, and largely rewarded, as Bucer reports a But, driven thereto by the terrors of his own guilty conscience, like another Judas, he afterwards hanged himself upon the neck of his own mule, for want of a better gallows.
a Bucer in Praefat. ad Senarclaei Histor. de Morte Diaz. - Lonicer .