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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

bene hanged vp on hye That day that Saul did loath his life and willing was to dye And so the seuen that hanged were and eke the bones of Saul With those of Ionathas his sonne he did conuay them all Into the lande of Beniamin and put them in a pit Where Cis the father of king Saul lay buried in it When this was done as Dauid did commaund giue a charge The Lord withdrew the plague of derth plenty sent at large Now after this God gaue to him alway the vpper hande Of all his foes the Philistines which warred in his lande He bet them downe in battels foure slue the Giantes stoute Which to his prayse and honour great was noysed all about Then Dauid for the victories which in his latter dayes God gaue to him he thus began to giue him laude and prayse O Lord thou art my rocke and fort that doest me well defende My onely safe deliuerer from those that ill pretende God is my strength in him I will put all my hope and trust For I do finde him vnto me both mercifull and iust He is my shield the horne of health my tower that is so strong My refuge and my sauiour from taking any wrong I will on him call day and night who worthy is of prayse Not doubting then but that I shall preserued be alwayes The pangs of death gat me about and griped me full sore The flowing floods of wicked men did fray me more and more The sorrowes of the hell or graue me compassed about The snares were set to trappe me in that I should not get out Then in my trouble did I call vnto the Lord on hye Who from out of his holy place gaue eare vnto my cry God béeing wroth he made the earth to tremble and to quake And all the bottome of the mount to totter and to shake A smoke out of his nosethrils came whē he to wrath was bent Consuming fyre with kindled coles out of his mouth he sent He bowed heauen as he came down mine enemies to confound The misty cloudes beneath his féete made darknes on the groūd He rode vpon the Cherub and the Cherubin also And on the wings of all the winds his flight was to and fro He framed darknes as a tent him round about to be With waters gathered into clouds that no man might him sée But when he list his presence shew and to appeare in sight Then with the haile flashing fire the clouds he maketh bright God with his sundry thunder claps and fyrie dartes sent out With soden lightnings maketh them to feare him all about O Lord the sea vncouered was whose surges rise and fall At thy rebuke and at a blast thy foes were drowned all The Lord hath frō the heauen aboue his help to me sent downe And drawen me out of waters great which came on me to drowne He by his might deliuerd me frō all my foes ech one When I was weake and not of power to cope with thē alone They went about me to preuent in my most heauinesse But yet the Lord so wrought therin they could me not oppresse He brought me foorth in open place to haue my scope at will And of his fauour and his loue preserued me from ill And as I was a giltlesse man and voyde of all offence So to the cleannesse of my hands I gaue no recompence For that I kept the wayes of God and walked in the same Nor did not speake agaynst my Lord nor yet his holy name But had an eye vnto his lawes to kéepe them in my hart His statutes did I not cast off nor from them once depart An vpright life the eyes of God delighteth much in it From wickednes I did refrayne and would it not commit Therfore the Lord requited all my doings done aright According to my righteousnes appearing in his sight The Lord with him that godly is will godly be also And with the man that is vpright vprightly will he go With those that are elect and pure he will with them so be And with the froward he will deale with them as frowardly The méeke and simple man of heart thou wilt not sée confound As for the proude and lofty man thou pullest to the ground Thou art O Lord my light guyde to walke in all thy wayes Thou wilt my darknes make to shine as clere as the noone daies For by thy helpe an hoast of men I shall them make to fall And through my God shall batter downe the hard stony wall The wayes of God are vncorrupt his worde must triall haue and to the stedfast faythfull man he is a shield to saue For who is God except the Lord which made both heauē earth There is none other God but he that giveth life and breath He is the God that girdeth me with strength to go to warre And maketh playne the way and path that I may sée a farre My féete he maketh like the hindes in swiftnes for to go And setteth me vpon my place as pleaseth him also My hands he teacheth for to fight mine armes he makth strong To draw and breake a bow of stéele in compasse short or long By thy good sure protection and by thy sauing health And by thine ayde and mightie strength I do increase in wealth Thou hast enlarged all my steps in stretching them awide And eke my treadings made so playne my foote it can not slide My foes I fiercely did pursue and turned not agayne Untill I had put all to flight and many of them slayne I bet and wounded so my foes that in no maner wise Once vnder foote they could agayne be able to arise Thou didst me girde about with strength in battell for to fight And hast dispersed all my foes abrode out of my sight The neckes of mine ilwillers Lord thou didst bow downe and bend That I on them might worke my will and pleasure in the end They looked round about for helpe but no man did appeare To God they cried in their distresse yet would he not thē heare I bet them still as small as dust that winde doth blow away And trode on them as men do treade vpon the myre and clay O Lord thou hast deliuerd me from all seditious bandes And made me to be gouernour and head of diuers landes A people straunge and eke vnknowen will humbly me obay Where as mine owne will ouerthwart and stubbornly say nay Now blessed be the liuing God and praysed be his name The God of my saluation that worthy is of fame It is the Lord that gaue me power reuenged for to be And brought the people all into subiection vnder me He saued me from all my foes and set me vp aloft Aboue the wicked cruell men that rose agaynst me oft I will therfore prayse thée O Lord among the Gentiles all And sing vnto thy holy name and thereon dayly call Thou hast for thine anoynted king such mercies