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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

An Example of Praier against Idolatrous Tyrantes

XV. John Hall, M.D.

IF vnto vs poore mortall men

No prayse is due of very ryght,

How are they mockte and blynded then,

How farre are they from perfect sight,

That to a stocke or dead image

Will geue such laude as God should haue!

How vayne is he, howe doth he rage,

That doth God’s glorie so depraue!

The which sinne and most vyle offence

David did so abhorre and hate,

That he a psalme in God’s defence

Compiled hath, that each estate

May vnderstande howe farre awrye

They wandred be from righteousnes,

The lyuing God that doe denye

By an image or false lykenes:

And therfore doth all men exhorte

To feare the Lorde, and in hym truste;

Which is a true and sure comforte

To all that in his hope are iust.

His harpe in hande he therfore tooke,

And on his knees this noble kyng

(As it is in the Psalter booke)

This holy psalme begun to synge:

Not vnto vs, Lord, not to vs,