a crown of thorns] The Crown is a Soveraign ornament, and so was the purple robe, in so much that it was once accounted Treason for any private man to wear it; the Romanes admitted it to Kings great men, in triumphs, sacrificers, and at their funeralls; so that although they did this in derision of Christs Kingdom, yet it did as it were proclaim him a King, and a sacrificer, by his death triumphant.