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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06869	The holie historie of King Dauid wherein is chieflye learned these godly and whosome lessons, that is: to haue sure patience in persecution, due obedience to our prince without rebellion: and also the true and most faithfull dealings of friendes. Drawne into English meetre for the youth to reade; by Iohn Marbeck.	Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585.	1579 (1579)	STC 17302; ESTC S120587	57,181	74

Samuel To whom he had declared all the case as it befell From Rama then to Naioth with Samuel he went Remayning there although that Saul his messengers had sent For they with other Prophets mo gan now to prophecie So that they had no mind to séeke for Dauid earnestlie But when as Saul himselfe was come to Naioth where he was He then for feare departed thence and fled to Ionathas Complayning thus O Ionathas what cause giue I of strife That still thy father and my lord so séeketh for my life Now God forbid quod Ionathas he deale so cruelly Expell all feare pull vp thine heart trust me thou shalt not dye For well I know my father will no one thing take in hand But or he doth attempt the same I shall it vnderstand And will he now hide this from me he is not so vnkinde To worke thy death so secretly and show me not his minde Oh Ionathas thy father knowes and playnly this doth sée What faithfull loue and tender heart thou bearest vnto me Therfore perhaps he will it hide as though it were not so To stay thy heart from pensiuenes and filling it with wo But truly as the Lord doth liue and thou dost liue with breath One step there is and scarcely that betwéene me and my death What wilt thou haue me do quod he declare to me thy minde For both in wealth and bitter wo thou shalt me faithfull finde Behold quod he to morow next the king doth hold the feast Where I should sit at boord with him my roome to fill at least But let me go into the fields and kéepe me out of sight Till all the feast be done and past the third day towards night If Saul thy father speake of me demaunding to and fro Say then I craued leaue of thée to Bethleem to go Where once a yere a solemne feast is holden there within For all the stocke and progenie of me and all my kinne If he be pleased there withall thy seruant shall haue peace But if he do intend me hurt his malice will not cease Then shall thy mercy do me good and with thy bond accord Which to thy seruant thou didst make promise in the Lord For if in me there can be found offence in all the land Then let me neuer farther go but kill me with thy hand God thée defend quod Ionathas for if I did it know That any harme were toward thee of truth I would it show Then Dauid sayd how shal I learne what Saul doth say to thée Or who shall tell me if my lorde do answere cruelly Come let vs go into the field and so they tooke their way Where Ionathas brast out in words and gan to Dauid s●●● O Lord the God of Israel when I haue gropen out My fathers minde or that all these thrée dayes be gone about If all things touching thée be well word shal be brought to thée And if I kéepe not touch therin the Lord then punish mée And also if my father Saul do séeke thy blood to shed I will my selfe be thy defence till thou away be fled And so the Lord kéepe and defend thée where so ere thou goes And be with thée as he hath bene with Saul agaynst his foes Now this request of thée I craue which graūt thou wilt I trust That I may liue my dayes in peace to make thy couenant iust And when I haue ronne out my course thē for my sake to mine Thou wilt not cut thy mercy off when that the sword is thine No not euen when the Lord aboue thy foes hath all confounde And left thée not an enemie aliue vpon the ground So Ionathas renued his bond and to the Lord he spoke That Dauids foes might it reuenge if that the same were broke And further sware to kepe the bond that was betwene thē sowne For Dauids body life and soule he loued as his owne Then Ionathas to Dauid sayd to morow doth begin The feast whereas the king will spye thy place no man therin Therfore go hide thée out of sight till thrée dayes passe no more Make haste get thée to that place where thou was put before Euen when the matter was in hand and there remayne and ly By Ezel stone which doth direct the way for passers by And I will come shoote thrée shafts and they shall light beside As though my marke were therabout where thou thy selfe dost hide Then will I say vnto my boy go hence tary not Séeke out with spéede gather vp the shafts that I haue shot And if I call and say to him they be on this side thée Then all is well be not afrayde to shew thy selfe to me But if I say they are beyonde why standest thou so still The Lord hath sent thée then away and saued thée from ill As touching this and all that we haue spoken of before Betwéene vs two the Lord shall be a witnesse euermore So Dauid hid him selfe abrode when Saul the feast began Where all the lords saue he alone were placed eury man. 〈◊〉 Saul did note full wel and marke yet nothing did he say But thought some one or other let did kéepe him then away But on the next day when he saw his place was voyde agayne Of Ionathas he did demaund the cause of his refrayne Where is the sonne of Isai What is the cause I say He doth absent him from the feast both now and yesterday Then Ionathas made his excuse and sayd that he was gone To Bethleem towne askt him leaue for that it stoode him on For all his kinred there did méete an offering to present Unto the Lord and therfore had his brother for him sent This is the cause that doth him let to come and kéepe his place Among the péeres that present be at table with your grace Then Saul fell out with Ionathas at boord before them all The sonne of his rebellious wife he did him name and call I know that thou and Dauid both are ioyned in one frame Which will be thy confusion and eke thy mothers shame For be thou sure so long as he doth liue vpon the earth The kingdome thou shalt not possesse whilst thou hast any breath Wherfore go séeke and fet him out where euer he be now By force or any other meane for sure his death I vow What hath he done quod Ionathas with eyther hand or breath Agaynst your royall Maiestie that you haue sworne his death That said he shooke his speare at him with discontented brayne Which was a signe to Ionathas that Dauid should be slayne Whose hart did bléede his friends estate and danger to cōceiue No meate could downe and therupon he rose tooke his leaue So on the morow which was now his iust appoynted day He made his walke into the field and place where Dauid lay And while he tried his shafts to shoot he bad his page make hast and runne marke