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2o THE WIFE OF KEITH.
Yet ft the Salt \b’^ Lard arofe,
Enviorewed with an gels,bright,
And to the wife in haft he foes,
Ddir’d her to pafs out of fight.
O Lord, quoth she, caul'e do me right.
But not according to my fin;
Have you not promis’d day and night.
When finners knper, to let them in ?
He faid thou wrefrs the Scri.pures wrong,
The night is come, thou fpend'ft the day,
In wlibredom thou haft lived long,
And to repent thou didlt delay ;
Still my comarandments thou abus’d,
And vice commkicd'ft. hufity.
Since now my mercy theu refus’d,
Go down to hell eternallyi
0 Lord m> foul doth teftefy,
Tfeat I have fpent my life in vain.
Ah : make a wacderiug fheep of me.
And bring me to thy flock again.
Think'ft thou there is no count to crave,
Of j>11 the gifts in thee l planted,
I gave the beauty above the lave,
A pregnant, v/ii fhou never wanted.
Mailer quoth ftre. it muft be granted.
My ftns are great, give me contrition ;
The forlorn fon, when he repented, ,
Obtain’d his father’s ful} remiffion.
1 fpir’a my judgments many times,
And fpiritual paftors did the fend : .
But thou rerewed’ft thy former crimes^
Ay more and more me to offend.