Scriptural poems being several portions of Scripture digested into English verse /

AND now whilst Joseph in Confinement lay, It came to pass upon a certain day, That Pharaoh King of Egypt, being wroth With his chief Butler, and chief Baker both, For their Offences, put them both in Ward, In the House of the Captain of the Guard: Into the Place where Joseph was confined, Unto whose Custody they were resigned, And he attended on them in the Prison. And there they were continued for a season, During which time, it chanced both of them Did in the same Night dream each Man his Dream: Which Dreams according to Interpretation, Had to themselves particular Relation. And Joseph coming early the next day, Into the Room where Pharaoh's Servants lay, Beheld their Countenances much dejected: Wherefore he said. What Evil hath effected This melancholy Frame, what is it that causes These marks of Discontentment in your Faces? Then said they, we have dreamed each Man his Dream, And there is no Man to interpret them. Then Joseph said your Dreams to me make known; Interpretations are from God alone. ⟨p. 55⟩Then unto Joseph the chief Butler told His Dream, and said, Methought I did behold A Vine, whereon three Branches did appear, Which seemed to bud, to blossom, and to bear Clusters of full ripe Grapes, which to my thinking I pressed into the Cup for Pharaoh's drinking. And Joseph said, Thy Dream doth signify, Thou shalt enjoy thy former Dignity: The Branches which thou sawest are three days, In which King Pharaoh will his Butler raise, And to thy Place again will thee restore, And thou shalt serve him as thou hast done before: But do not, when it shall be well with thee, Forget me, but show Kindness unto me, And unto Pharaoh represent my Case, That I may be delivered from this Place, For I was stolen out of the Hebrews Land, And also here am wrongfully detained. Then the chief Baker having understood, That the Interpretation was so good, He told his Dream to Joseph too, and said, Lo, I had three white Baskets on my Head, And in the Uppermost there seemed to be, Of baked Provision, great variety, Fit for King Pharaoh's Table, and there came A Flock of Birds, and seemed to eat the same. And Joseph said, Thy Dream portends thy fall, For at the end of three days Pharaoh shall Lift up thy Head, and hang thee on a Tree, So that the Birds shall feast themselves on thee.