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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.
Sharon the Garden of the World, the Pride of Palestine; Whose Natural soil more Glory bore than Solomon could resign;
SHaron the Garden of the World, the Pride of Palestine; Whose Natural soyl more Glory bore than Solomon could resign;
2 Could never produce so sweet a Rose as I will be to Thee. So fair a Lilly never grew, Sharon must stoop to Me.
2 Could ne'er produce so sweet a Rose as I will be to Thee. So fair a Lilly never grew, Sharon must stoop to Me.
3 O Blessed Jesus, dost thou say, who'll have a Rose so sweet! Who will refuse our Sharons Rose, that knows its fragrant scent?
4 Upon the Cross thou was Distilled, we taste in Distillation, The sweetness of the absent Rose, by Faith and Acceptation.
4 Upon the Cross thou was Distill'd, we taste in Distillation, The sweetness of the absent Rose, by Faith and Acceptation.