The Hiftory of Qg~en E S T ER. Het rnaky fleece. Thus, ,thus in ahappy peace -.. Me rules, to ma:ke our.happinefs increafe, 'I Direets with love, commanas with Princely awe, .And in his Q(eaft lie bears .aliving Law : Defend us thou and 1\ca.vens thee defend, ._. ' And let pr~d Haman ~ave proud Ham~ii's end• . ··· t :-.· ~. THE ARGUMENT. . The Jews a»fl Mordecai lament, · . )lndwail the height !1{ their diftreJJ'e$; _: 1 Jat Mor~ecai t/1i: J§&-een poffeff'cs, · ( With ,ruel Haman' sfout mtent. 1 , .. .. sea. 9· ·.· . .• .n "( . N Ow when as 'Fame ( the daughter of the earti~ · Newly dif-hurthen1dofher plum~d birth) · · from offher Turrets. did her wings difpla.y, · And pcatcht in the fad cars of Mordecai ; He rem hi~;garmenr, wearing in their fl;~ad . , . , DHl:refied ·sackcloth ; on his fainting head "' Be firowed Duft, ~nd from his 1howriHg eye~ Ran floods of farrow, ~dwith bitter cries His gricfialut~d heaven ; his groans did borrow No Art to dr..tw the true pourtr_aa offorrow; Nor yet within his tr~ublcd breafi: alone, ( Teo fmall a fb.ge fer grief to trample on J DidTyrant farrow ad: her ~ively Scene, ., . But did inlargc ( fuch grief admirs po mean ) ;· The lawlefs l-imits of·hcr Thearer · . ·' Fch' hcarr.sef all the Jewi1h Nation, where {With nodifiembled acrion) fhe cxpreft !·'· _ l'.h~ liv~ly PafijQn of a-l'enuvc breft9 f,
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