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The First Fovre Bookes of Virgil his AEneis

Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, wyth oother Pohetical diuises theretoo annexed
Stanyhurst, Richard (1547-1618)
  
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THEE FIRST PSALME OF DAVID, named in Latin, Beatus vir, translated in too English Iambical verse.

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That wight is happy and gratious,
That tracks noe wicked coompanye;
Nor stands in il mens segnorye;
In chayre ne sits of pestilence.

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But in the sound law of the lord
His mynd, or heast is resiaunt:
And on the sayd law meditat's,
With hourlye contemplation.

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That man resembleth verelye
The graffe bye riuer situat;
Yeelding abundant plentines
Of fruict, in haruest seasoned.

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With heunlye ioyce stil nurrished
His leafe bye no means vannisheth;
What thing his hert endeuoureth,
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Js prosperously accomplished.

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Not so the sinful creaturs,
Not so there acts are prosperous;
But lyke the sand, or chaffye dust,
That wynddye pufs fro ground doe blow.

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Therefor in houre iudicial,
The vngodlye shal vnhaunst remayne;
And shal be from the coompanye
Of holye men quit sundered.

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Because the lord preciselye knows
The godlye path of goastlye men;
The fleshlye trace of filthye deeds
Shal then be cleene extinguished.
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