Tlit:: ARGll MtfNT.. " . l The bloody :?rlaff~tcre: the Jews:· Prevail ; their fatal jword fubduu , Awrnldofmen., -A.nd in th.tt {ttJy't Haman's teruurfed fons they {laj. \ .... N 0 W when :is time had rip"ned the Decree;1 ; .( Whofe winter fruir, unfhakeri from the tree: Full ready was to fall) and btought tha~ day~ · Wherein pretended mlf~hiet wa\sto play · lder tragickScene upOJI\ the Jewifh State,. And fpit the ven6m of her bloody rage ·· l1pon the .face of that difperfcd Nation; · And in aminut~ breath their defolatiein ;: Upon rhat day ( as patients in the fight'} , Their fcatter'd force t)le Jews did re...unite; And to a 4ead their ftragUng ftrength re8uc'd,' And with their fatal hanii ( their hand difus'4. · To bathe in_ blood) they maae fo long' ~ec9il~ \. ~. \,1 ( i!.. :· ' "'h·~t withapurple ftrcam the thirfty foil O'rflow'd; and on the pavement ( drown'd w'itb blood) Wherenever was before thev rais'd a flood : There lies aheadlefs body, there a lim . New1ydif~joynte<i from the trunkofhim That there lies groaning ; aere, a ~fping head Cropt from his neighbour' 1houlders ; there; half d~ad Full h~aps o,f bodies, whereof fame curfe fare; Others blafpheme thenameof heav,n, and rate · Their utdifpofed ftars; withbitter cites, ' ()rr~ piti~s his poor widow~wife) and dies) Anoth~
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