A47500:777
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out…
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out of the Old and New Testaments, with others composed by t[he author] : together [with o]ne hundred of divine hymns, being the first century.
London: printed by B.H., 1696
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.
2 Our days are few, and pass away, like as a shadow flies; Let's ready be, O Lord we pray, and shun all Vanities.
2 Our days are few, and pass away, like as a shadow flys; Let's ready be, O Lord we pray, and shun all Vanities.
3 When we go out of our own Doors, none knows what may befall, Or come on us, ere we return; Life's uncertain to all.
3 When we go out of our own Doors, none knows what may befall, Or come on us, e'er we return; Life's uncertain to all.
4 O call to Mind, remember then, our Time consumeth fast; Why hast thou made the Sons of Men, as things in vain to waste?
5 What Man is he that Liveth here, and Death shall never see? Or, from the hand of the dark Grave, can, Lord, delivered be?
5 What Man is he that Liveth here, and Death shall never see? Or, from the hand of the dark Grave, can, Lord, deliver'd be?