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THE HISTORIE OF JUDITH.
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Now when this Panim scourge (with age at last)
Had left this life, and vnto heauen past :
Then Izak had of Rulers sundrie men,
whose glorious acts deserues eternall pen.
who knowes not Samgar, Barac, and Othoniell ?
The valiant Delbor, A hud, and good Samuell ?
What land (O Sampson) rings not thy renowne,
who sole, vnarmed, bet an Army downe ? 300
what laude to lephthe iustly might we lowe :
Had he not hurt his owne, through hastie vowe ?
What hill or dale, what flood or fixed ground,
Doth not the famous Gedeons praise resounde ?
In later time, their kings some good, some bad
Of all the Hebrew state the ruling had.
Had I the Harpe of Dauid (holy King)
None other sound but Dauid would I sing,
But euen as all the deeds that Dauid did,
Could not be done by none, but by Dauid: 310
So none but Dauid, on his yvrie harpe,
The glorious praise of God could onely carpe.
But here his praise, I prease not to proclame.
Least I throw want of skill, obscure the same.
Yet leaue I not his Sonne, whome grace deuine,
made no lesse rich, then wondrous of engine :
whose doctrine drew to Salem from all wheare,
A hundreth thousand wyzards him to heare :
From Araby, from Ynde, to Affrik shore,
His toung entysd them with his cunning lore. 320
Shall I forget the kings who ouerthrew,
Idolatrie and plaste religion dewe ?
Shall I forget that King who saw descend
A winged Hoste Solyma to defend ?
Shall I forget him, who before his eene,
Enchast the bands of Chus on Gerar greene ?
Shall I forget him, who preparing fight
gainst Ammon, Seir, & Moabs, Idoll might.
Saw eche of their three hostes on others fall,
And with them seifs their seifs, disconfit all ?
ludgeg.
p. 26.
Salomon.
losiat.
Hezekiath.
Jerusalem.
Asa.
losaphal.
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