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A Briefe of the Bibles History

Drawne First into English Pohesy, and then illustrated by apt Annotations: whereto is now added a Synopsis of the Bibles Doctrine. The third Aedition, in sundry things amended and enlarged. By Henoch Clapham
  

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1. Staffe.

[Idvmean (Herod, King in Iudea]

Idvmean (Herod, King in Iudea,
What time hee raignd, our Iaacobs star appeares:
Iesus is borne, Jmmanuel Messiah,
Shiloh the Seed of Woman, in full yeares.
A Uirgin brings him forth: even Mary who
Betrothed was to Ioseph all should know.