(4)
This line is dry
nonsense
or false grammar
and
will bear no jest.
13 no more No
mo_u_r. Pronounce
[rhyming
with pow’r.] this like my lady’s
woman.
14 deserts Des_a_rts.
Pronounce
[rhyming
with hearts.] this like my lady’s
housemaid.
XI. PSALM OF DAVID:
1 come on, Come
un. Pronounce
[rhyming
with shun.] this like a
chambermaid.
The
force of his argument
lies
here: he does
3 For if the Power, in which they trust, not
fear his enemies,
Should fail, how helpless are the just! because
if God’s power
should
fail he has no
help.
6 And on their impious heads will pour (1)
A shower of snares
Of snares (1) and flames
a dismal shower; on a man’s head would
And this their bitter cup must be
do wonderful execution.
(2) To drink to all
eternity: However, I grant it is a
scurvy
thing enough to
swallow
them.
(2)
To taste the doctor’s
poetry.
XII. PSALM OF DAVID:
1 O Lord, some help for me provide, He
can confide in but
For in but few I can
confide, few because all are.
All men are so perfidious grown;
perfidious. Smoke
that!
2 True mutual kindness they pretend, Did
ever any man
pretend
mutual
kindness
to another?
3 But God those flatterers will confound, Qu:
whether flatterers
That with abusive lies
abound, usually abound with
And proudly boast their vicious
ways, abusive lies?
4 That say, with our deceitful tongues If
they say thus they
are
silly flatterers.
6 And since He thus was pleased to say, That
comparison is
Like gold refined from
base alloy, well applied.
His promise never can deceive; (3)
(3)
Deceive. Pronounce
this
like a beau.
7 And therefore will their cause assert, Examine
well the grammar
Who thus are pure and
true of heart, and sense and the
And save them from the enemy;
elegance of this
stanza.