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CHAP. XXX.

VT now they of yonger time scorne me, whose fathers I vouchsafed not to put with the dogs of my flocke: The force of whose hands was to me as nothing, & they were thought vnworthie of life it-self. Barren with pouertie and famine, who gnawed in the wildernes, il fauoured by calamitie and miserie. And they did eate grasse, and the barkes of trees, and the roote of iunipers was their meat. Who taking these things violently out of the valleys, when they had found euerie thing, they ranne to them with a crie. They dwelt in the deserts of torrents, and in caues of the earth, or vpon grauel. Who reioysed among these kind of things, and counted it delicacies to be vnder the briars. The children of foolish and base men, and in the earth not appearing at al. Now am I turned into their song, and become a prouerb with them. They abhorre me, and fly far from me, and are not afrayd to spit in my face. For he hath opened his quiuer, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth. At the right hand of me rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they haue ouerthrowen my feet, & as with waues haue oppressed with their paths. They haue dissipated my waies, they haue lyen in wayte against me, and they haue preuailed, and there was not that would helpe. As when a wal is broken, and the gate opened, they haue broken violently vpon me, and are come tumbling downe to my miseries. I brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperitie hath passed away as a cloud. And now my soule withereth in my self, and the daies of affliction possesse me. In the night my bone is pearsed with sorrowes: and they that eate me, sleep not. In the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they haue girded me about, as it were with the coller of a coate. I am compared to durt, and am resembled to imbers and ashes. I crie to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand, and thou doest not respect me. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardenesse of thy hand thou art against me. Thou didst lift me vp, and setting me as it were vpon the wind thou hast mightily dashed me. I know that thou wilt deliuer me to death, where a house is appointed for euery one that liueth. But yet not to my consumption doest thou send forth thy hand: and if they shal fal, thou wilt saue. I wept sometime vpon him that was afflicted, & my soul had compassion on the poore. I expected Rh