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38 A TRIBUTE TO WYATTS PSALMS
The greate Macedon, that out of Persy chasedDarius, of whose huge powre all Asia range,
In the riche arke yf Hommers rhymes he placed,
Who fayned gestes of heathen princes sange;
What holie grave, what worthye sepulture,
To Wyates Psalmes should Christians than purchase?
Where he doth painte the lively fayth and pure,
The stedfast hope, the sweet returne to grace,
Of iust David, by perfect penitence;
Where rulers may see, in a myrrour clere,
The bytter frute of false concupicence:
How Iurye bowght Vryas death full deere.
In princes hartes Godes scourge yprinted deepe
Mowght them awake out of their synfull sleepe.
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