Elder-tree.
Sir John Maundeville, speaking of the Pool of Silʹoe, says, “Fast by is the elder-tree on which Judas hanged himself … when he sold and betrayed our Lord.” Shakespeare, in Love’s Labour’s Lost, v. 2, says, “Judas was hanged on an elder.” (See Fig-tree.)
“Judas he japed
With Jewish siller,
And sithen on an elder tree
Hanged himsel.”
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