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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.
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.
A good name is more worth then a precious ointment, and the day of death is better then the day of birth.
A good name is more worth then a precious oyntement, and the day of death is better then the daye of byrth.
This place seemeth hard because of the ignorance of the Hebrew tongue,1 which hath her figures that can not be understanded but after the use of the tongue: and it seemeth no manner of way to agree with the things that are gone before. Me thinketh that this is the sum and meaning of the place, that Solomon will ⟨image 108⟩comfort men that are impatient in these vain devises, as hitherto he hath done after he hath recited a sort of worldly vanities, to intermire some consolation and exhortation to the fear of God, that our hart might rear it self up unto God to hearken to his word, and not to be to swift of our tongue. &c. So here again he intermedleth a certain exhortation after his rehearsed Roll, meaning afterward to return to his Roll again.
THis place séemeth harde because of ye ignoraunce of the Hebrewe tounge,1 which hath her figures that cā not be vnderstāded but after the vse of the tounge: and it séemeth no maner of way to agrée with the thinges that are gonne before. Me thinketh that this is the summe and meaning of the place, that Salomon will ⟨image 108⟩