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OF THE MONARCHE.
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git reasonably reuolfe, in to gour thocht.
In stok nor stone can be non holynes.
C In the desert the peple of Israeli,
Moyses remanyng in the mont Synaye,
Thay maid one moltin Calf of fyne mettell,
Quhilk thay did honour as thare God verraye ;
Bot, quhen Moyses discendit, I heir saye,
And did consydder thare Ydolatrye,
[H 26] Off that peple thre thousand gart he slaye,
As the scripture at lenth doith testifye.
Because the holye propheit Daniell
In Babilone Ydolatrie repreuit,
And wald nocht worschip thare fals Idoll Bell,
The hole peple at him wer so aggreuit,
To that effect that he suld be myscheuit,
Delyuerit hym tyll rampand Lyonis sewin ;
Bot of that dangerous den he wes releuit
Throuch myrakle of the gret God of hewin.
C Behald quhow Nabuchodonosor king
Into the vaill of Duran did prepare
One image of fyne Gold, one meruallous thing,
Thre score of cubyts heycht, and sax in square,
As more cleirlye the scripture doith declare,
To quhome all peple, by proclamatioun,
With bodeis bowit, and on thare kneis bare, 2435
Rycht humelye maid adoratioun.
C Ane gret wounder, that day, wes sene, also,
Quhow Nabuchodonosor, in his yre,
Tuke Sydrach, Misach, and Abednago,
Quhilks wald nocht bow thare kne, at his desyre 2440
Tyll that Idoll, gart kast thame in the fyre,
For to be brynt, or he sterit of that steid.
Quhen he beleuit thay wer brynt, bone and lyre,
Wes nocht consumit one small hair of thair heid.
Exodi.
xxxii.
2420
Daniell.
.xiiii.
2425
Dan. Hi.
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