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A New Balade or Songe of the Lambes Feast

[by Christopher Vitell?]

Vitell, Christopher (fl. 1555-1579)

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A New Balade or Songe / of the Lambes Feast.

Another, out of Goodwill.

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A New Balade or Songe / of the Lambes Feast.

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I hearde one saye:
Com

Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

now awaye /
Make no delaye:
Alact / why stande yee than?
All is doubtlesse
In

Esa. 25. a.

redynesse /
There wantes

Math. 22. a.

but Gesse,
To the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest // in verye deede /
That's found a

Apoc. 19. 2.

Gest // in ye Mariage-weede.

2

THE Scriptures all /
Perfourmed

Act. 3. c.

shall
Bee, in this my Call /
Uoyced-out by H. N. (than):
I am Gods Loue

1. Iohn. 4 a

/
Com from aboue /
All Men to moue

Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b. Apoc. 19. h.

,
To the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

3

MAKE haste and speede /
I am indeede
That

Math. 22. a.

Maryage-weede,
That Those must putt-on, than,
Which shall bee fitt /
Or-els permitt
Downe for to

Luk. 22. c. Apoc. 3. c.

sitt /
At the Supper of the Lamb.
For hee is now blest. &c.

4

Pro. 1. 2. Eccli. 6. c.

not dispyse
Thys myne Aduyse /
Yee that bee wyse /
And lust for to eate than,
Of the

Apoc. 2. a. b.

lyuinge Wood /
Or heauenlye Food /
So pure and good /
In the Supper of the Lamb /
For Hee is now blest. &c.

5

THAT Seede

Gen. 4. d.

of Seth /
Which passe thorowe

Iohn. 3. a. b. Rom. 6.

Death
(In Abrahams

Gen. 15. 17. a. Rom. 4. b.

Fayth)
To Lyfe: They onlye than /
Shall be

Luk. 22. c. Apoc. 3. c.

sett-downe
With great Renowne /
And weare the

2. Tim. 4. a. 1 Pet. 5. a. Iam. 1. b.

Crowne /
In the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

6

ALL Scripture-wyse
That now surmyse,
How to dispyse
Mee / in their

1. Cor. 1. c.

Wysedom / than /
They shall no-dout
(Amonge all Stout)
Bee shutt

Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

wyth-out
The Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

7

FOR none I saye /
Saue onlye thaye
That shall

Mat. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

obaye,
Myne holye Seruyce, than
(Which doth brynge-in
The

Rom. 6. Col. 2. b.

Death of Sin)
Maye enter-in,
To the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

8

THEN all that nowe
In

2. Cor. 12. c. Gal. 5. c.

Stryfe do growe /
And wyll not

Pro. 1. c. Tess. 1. a. 2 b

bowe,
To My louelye Warnynges, than /
Must now at last
Cleene out bee cast /
And

Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

neuer tast
The Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

9

THEN runne apace /
Whylst there is Grace

2. Cor. 6. a. Gal. 6. a.

/
Or Tyme and space /
Go fast as euer yee can /
To Syons

Esa. 2. a. 25. b.

Hyll:
Wheare All that wyll
May eate their fyll /
In the Supper of the Lamb.
For hee is now blest. &c.

10

NEGLECT Mee not /
As then dyd

Gen. 19. b. 2. Pet. 2. a.

Lot
Longe past / yee wot /
And perryshed all than:
My Loue pervse /
Make no

Mat. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

excuse /
Lest yee refuse
The Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

11

WHEN All were sett /
And furnysht nett
(Both small and great)
So was it foreseene than,
Of the Brydegroome /
That ther was

Math. 22. a.

roome
For more to come /
In the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest &c.

12

THEN must I go
To the

Math. 22. a.

Hye-wayes, lo /
And Hedges, tho /
And seeke them-vp all than:
All Those by name
That's Blynde or Lame /
And compell thesame,
To the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

13

THE Lorde hath swore
Longe-tyme before /
That

Math. 22. a. Luk. 14. b.

neuermore
Such as excused them than /
Shoulde tast or eate
Of the heauenly Meate
Or Porcion geat,
In the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest. &c.

14

FOR that all Kynges /
Under Loues Wynges
(Without Grudgynges)
In Peace mought

Sap. 6. a.

gouerne, than /
Praye All: that trust
Amonge the Iust /
Or haue a Lust
To the Supper of the Lamb.
For Hee is now blest // in verye deede /
That's found a Gest // in the Mariage-weede.

FINIS.