156 Th~ Hi'fl,ry of ~een E S T E R. 'Yirh ftreams of blood; nor thee ( 0 cruel kind) Toquench the tire of awomans mind, With flowing rivers of thy fubjea:s blood; rrom bad beginnings God creates a good, 4nd happy end : Wha_c I cannot ~onceive, ;p.d, let my foul admue, and beheve. THE ARGUMENT. The Feafl of Pu'lim jonfecrated: T/1 occafton wh/"tw:u cetebrated: Letters "'J>'Pere w1·it by Mordecai, . :to teep the mem'ry ofthat day. sea; 19. 'SO MerdochtAU throughout all the Land · .· Difpers'd his Letters, with~ ftriet command To celebrate thefe two days memory With fea{\:s; aH.d gifts, and yearly jollity, That after-ages may record that day, And keep it fro~ the ruft of time, that they. Which fh~ll fucceed, may ground their holy mirth Upon the Joys, tl'lofc happy days brought forth, Which chang~d th~ir faiinefs, and blacknights of farrow : · Into the bt,~hmefs cf a gladfommorrow : Whereto the Jews ( to whom thcicLetters came) (;ave~ueobfervance, and did foon proclaim Their faered Fcftivals, in memory t;:>f that days joy, and joyful vifrory : And fmce th<) Lots ( tht.t Hat~~an did abufc, ttPo kn('.'W the d·i.fi11al day which to the Jews ~ Mi~ht faltmoft fatal, and to nis :ment ~ Lcaft unprop;rious ;;were in ~h'. ev~ot. ) Croft
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