Scripto | Page Revision | Transcription

(Page 38)

       To bow: they bow them downe and 

       deflower them. they make havok of 

        all laws. 

Vers: 11. They force the women in Zion, and the virgins
in the cittyes of Judah.

       Lerning the principles of good lerning

       are suspended, and all antiquity of 

       letters unregarded Deu: 28. they defye

       all Judgement and care for no 

       condemnation. 

Vers: 12. The Princes are hanged up by their handes,
and the presence of the Elders is not
honoured.

       Waters: or Doctrin: the choise 

       yong men that should make scholars

       are all made drudges. 

Vers: 13. They let the choise men to the mill and
the yong men are redy to fall [illegible] the wood.

       Offspring: the cheeff offspring 

       of Lerning are the Judges and

       flowrishing poets, with their 

       grave sentences and sweet 

       sonets. PS: 78. w^hich^ are all down. 
 

Vers: 14. The Elders [illegible] from the gate and the
chois young men from their singing,

(Page 39)

       A Stay or prop; the cheeff stay

       of a man is the joy of hart th^at^

       lifts him up and makes him daunce

       as in time of Mariage and that is 

       lost, JS: 24. Can: 3. Ch 2 [symbol]. 

Vers: 15. The joy of our hart is quit gone, and
our daunce is turned to mourning.

      A mouth, the word of God wher

      by they wer the kinges of all

      the world, PS: 24. that is taken

      from them, the crown of them

      rejoycing 1 Theff: 2. Phil: 4. 

       Cant: 3. for the Church of Sion 

       that they wer wedded to and 

       the bewtious citty that was the

        joy of all the erth. PS: 48. ch. 

        2. [symbol]. 

Vers: 16. The crown of our head is fallen woe
now unto us for our sinnes.

       An Eye: Sinnes make the hart

       sick, which taketh away the 

       eyesight, and such an eyesight

       and alteration maketh th the
 
       hart sick to Heradian and

       Babilonian joys to keep 

Vers: 17. For this our hart is sick and stood of fyre
for thes things prophets, our eyes be
dimm.