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 204 Amie BradJireeVs Works.

His fumptuous buildings paffes all conceit,

Which wealth and ftrong ambition made fo great.

His Image yudahs Captives worfhip not,

Although the Furnace be feven times more hot.

Plis dreams wife Daniel doth expound full well.

And his unhapp}^ chang with grief foretell.

Strange melancholy humo^irs on him lay.

Which for feven years his reafon took away,

Which from no natural caufes did proceed.

But for his pride, fo had the heavens decreed.-^

The time expir'd, bruitifh remains''' no more,

But Goverment relumes as heretofore:

In fplendor, and iu Majefty he fits,

Contemplating thofe times he loft his witts.

And if by words we may ghefs at the heart, [88]

This king among the righteous had a part:

Fourty four years he reign'd, which being run.

He left his wealth and conquefts to his fon.

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TZ) ABEL'S great Monarch now laid in the duft, -^-^ His fon polTelTes wealth and rule as juft: And in the firft year of his Royalty Eafeth yehojakims Captivity:

K For bj the Heavens above it was decreed. '>■ remains a Beafl,

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