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Eleg. 21.

Waxe fat with laughing (Edom;) with glad eies
Behold the fulnesse of our miseries;
Triumph (thou Type of Antichrist) and feed
Thy soule with joy, to see thy brothers seed
Ruin'd, and rent, and rooted from the earth,
Make haste, and solace thee with early mirth;
But there's a time shall teach thee how to weepe
As many teares as I; thy lips, as deepe
Shall drinke in sorrowes Cup, as mine have done,
Till then, cheere up thy spirits, and laugh on:
Offended Iustice often strikes by turnes;
Edom, beware, for thy next neighbour burnes.