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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.
¶ When the Almond Tree shall flourish.
¶ When the Almonde Tree shall florish.
1That is, when the head waxeth white. For the Almond tree of all others beareth whitest flowers. Of this flourishing Almond tree, he borroweth his metaphor of hoary Age.
1THat is, when the head waxeth white. For the Almond tree of all others beareth whitest flowers. Of this florishing Almond trée, he boroweth his metaphor of hoary Age.
- 1White head.
❀ When the Grasshopper shall be a burden.
❀ When the Grashopper shall be a burthen.
1That is, such an old man is like to a grasshopper. The whole body is nothing but skin, and bone. For his bones stick out, and his body is worn away. And so he is become a very Image and Counterfeit of death.