A word in season

But behold the outward show of this grass. If any child should see it, he would esteem it to be better then any Barley, (for to Barley it is most like) since it groweth not as other things do upon the Earth, but in an higher and more notable place, and loadeth the tops of the houses. But take a man that knoweth these things, and he will say it is nothing else but a goodly show and resemblance without any fruit. Thus hath the Holy Ghost chosen this similitude to teach us, not to wish the Tyrants may be like grass, but to know that they are indeed most like unto grass on the house tops, which withereth away before the harvest time come, or any man go about to cut it down. Sennacherib who besieged Jerusalem, did fly over Kingdoms, oppressed and trod down all things under his feet: therefore he could not be counted of Ezechia & others like unto grass; and yet before he achieved what he went about, he was compelled, not without great fear, and also much slaughter of ⟨p. 38⟩[…] ⟨p. 39⟩[…] ⟨p. 40⟩his soldiers, to raise his siege, and he himself most miserably perished. So Pharaoh seemed mightily to grow and increase, not upon the earth, but in the air and upon the house tops; but the miserable Jews were oppressed and trodden under foot like mire in the streets. This is a resemblance of grass, not withering but freshly flourishing. But how quickly did it wither and vanish to nothing? For when Pharaoh did verily think to oppress them, he was suddenly oppressed himself and perished in the waters.

But behold the outward shew of this grass. If any child should see it, he would esteem it to be better then any Barley, (for to Barley it is most like) since it groweth not as other things do upon the Earth, but in an higher and more notable place, and loadeth the tops of the houses. But take a man that knoweth these things, and he will say it is nothing else but a goodly shew and resemblance without any fruit. Thus hath the Holy Ghost chosen this similitude to teach us, not to wish the Tyrants may be like grass, but to know that they are indeed most like unto grass on the house tops, which withereth away before the harvest time come, or any man go about to cut it down. Senacherib who besieged Jerusalem, did flie over Kingdoms, oppressed and trod down all things under his feet: therefore he could not be counted of Ezechia & others like unto grass; and yet before he atchieved what he went about, he was compelled, not without great fear, and also much slaughter of