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Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forthChristian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth
Christian meditations upon eight Psalms of the prophet David. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefit, into the vulgar tongue by I.S.Christian meditations vpon eight Psalmes of the prophet Dauid. Made and newly set forth by Theodore Beza. Translated out of French, for the common benefite, into the vulgare tongue by I.S.
Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queens most excellent Majesty, 1582Imprinted at London : In Bacon house, by Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie, 1582
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.
13 Alas, time was when I was fair & flourishing under thy favourable gentleness, now am I not so, my good days are past, as a smoking vapour: I have been mighty and in flower of my strength against all assaults within and without, abiding still fast by means of thine underpropping and stay: now my bones are cracked and weare into dust, as if they had been seared and burned like lime in a kiln.
13 Alas, time was when I was faire & florishing vnder thy fauourable gentlenesse, now am I not so, my good dayes are past, as a smoking vapour: I haue bene mightie and in flower of my strēgth against all aslaultes within and without, abiding still fast by meanes of thine vnderpropping and stay: nowe my bones are cracked and weare into dust, as if they had bene seared and burned like lime in a kilne.
- 13 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herth.3 For my dayes are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burnt like an herth.
14 That wonted courage so stout against Satan and his complices, is now withered as hay, and dried like grass cut down by the mower. I had, alas, so good an appetite and fed my self hungerly with that so nourishing, so sweet, and so ⟨image 44⟩delicate viand wherewith thou diddest furnish us from above, and I drank in so great draughts of that so precious and well relished liquor of thy quickening water: Now find I a dearth of this bread, and the small remain that I have thereof, goeth down with me against the stomach, so low am I brought, and have lost my taste.