14S 'lhe Hiflory ~f ~een E s.T_ ER~ , As warfting to the Je"tPl-, to-n1ake provifioll . -- -----,.,.,.; _. To entertain fo great an oppofition. : -,..,.~f~~ So Morde-cai ( <ii,burth'ned of nis grief~' Which now found hopeful tokens of relief) Depart~ the prefence of theKing, addreft In Royal Rt>b9, and oh his loftyCreft He bore a Crown of gold, his body .fpred ... · .. Witp Lawn, and Purple deeply coloured : Fill'd were the jews with tr!um~hs, and.Witn rtoif~i:. ~ ··-- ., ( The common Herald~ to procla1m true Joys. )" Like as aPris'ner muffied at the tree, 1 Whofe 'life~s remov'd fromdeath fcarce o~e- degree; His la.£\: pray'r faid, and .he;r.rts coafeffion m~de) · · (His eyes potfeffing deat~'s eternal fhade). . At Iaft unlook'.d for; comes a fiowReprieve, . Ana makes him ( even·ss dead ) once more tq live ; · Amaz'd, he rends deaths muffler from his eyes, And ( over-joy'd) knews not he lives, or dies .; So joy'd the Jews, whofe lives this newDecre.e Fl ad quit from death and danger, and fet free . Their ~afping fouls, and (like ablating light) Difperft the darknefs of the appr.9aahing-night.; . So joy'd the Jews : and with their folemn fea{b " They' cha!.'d dull farrow from their penft've breatls : :JVi :an while the people .f ftartled at the news ) . Some griev'd, fome envi'dSome (for fear)-turn'd Jews• . ·" ' . '• { ' ,7,1edita. ·I'· ' J ) ) • 1 ~- ~AMong the I)obl.e Greets1t was J}o..fhat11e ' . To lo~ .a [word ; lt but deferv~d ~he name Of W!li'S difaRrous formne ;but te yeeld .., . The right and fafe P.offeffion of the fbi~Jd, ~ ~ '\;Vas foul rcpr&ch, 'and mwJefH~war.Qi'?c, . r u WQriC tlun death t·o him that (,Qrn'd to rrize _, ) ~ I
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