A06504:339
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 5 › They perish with great calamity.Chapter 5 › They perish with great calamitie.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
They perish with great calamity.
They perish with great calamitie.
HE suffereth great misery. At home he is every day in danger of thieves, abroad of Robbers, he is taken and killed. This song merchant men know full well.
HE suffereth greate misery. At home he is euery day in daūger of théeues, abroad of Robbers, he is takē and killed. This song marchant mē know ful well.
And his borne of him shall have no possession of him.
And his borne of hym shall haue no possession of him.
The reason is, because Sodom & Gomorra have riches, but they reach not their hand to the poor: therefore the Lord ⟨image 93⟩overturneth them &c. The covetous gathereth, and an other destroyeth that he gathereth. The covetous thinketh: my son shall have these riches, but lo God sendeth thieves & Robbers, which turn him out of all he hath, so that neither he nor his son have any thing left.