An English Passion According to Saint Matthew, Part One: VII. Peter's Denial

Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard

A servant-girl came to him and said

You also were with Jesus the Galilean

But he denied it before all of them, saying

I do not know what you are talking about

When he went out to the porch, another

servant-girl saw him and she said, to the bystanders

This man was with Jesus of Nazareth

Again he denied it with an oath

I do not know the man

After a while the bystanders came up and said to Peter

Certainly you are also one of them, for your accent betrays you

Then he began to curse, and he swore an oath

I do not know the man

At that moment the cock crowed. Then Peter

remembered what Jesus had said: Before the cock crows you will deny me three times. And he went out and wept bitterly

Judas and Peter, betrayers both

Regret and guilt is all they know

I know it too. And so it is

Your faithless friend can walk with you

Jesus stood before the governor and the

governor asked him

Are you the King of the Jews?

Jesus said

You say so