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Then caft him out like to a naked Afs,

For this is he for whom none faid alas.*

His fon he fuffered three months to reign,

Then from his throne he pluck'd^ him down again,

Whom with his mother he to Babel led.

And feven and'^ thirty years in prifon fed;

His Uncle he eftablifh'd in his place

(Who was lafl King of holy Davids race)

But he as perjur'd as '^ehojakim^

They loft more now"" then e're they loft by him.

Seven years he kept his faith, and fafe he dwells;

But in the eighth againft his Prince rebels:

The ninth came Nebuchadnezzar with power,

Befieg'd his city, temple, Zions tower.

And after eighteen months he took them all:

The Walls fo ftrong, that ftood fo long, now fall.

The curfed King by flight could no wife fl}^^

His well deferv'd and foretold mifery:

But being caught to Babels wrathfull King

With children, wives and Nobles all they bring,

Where to the fword all but himfelf were put,

And with that wofull fight his eyes clofe fhut.

Ah! haplefs man, whofe darkfome contemplation

Was nothing but fuch gaftly meditation.

In midft of Babel now till death he lyes;

Yet as was told ne're faw it with his eyes.

<■ puird. d And more then.

' ludak loft more. / free.


 * Jer. xxii. i8, 19.

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