| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Stanzas from “Newes out of Powle’s Churchyard” | | LIX. Edward Hake |
| | | O ENDLESSE powre! O welspring, whence | |
| All wisdom wisely flowes; | |
| O God, whose grace doth guide the good, | |
| In whome all bounty growes: | |
| Thou knowst the hearts and seest the raynes, | 5 |
| Yea th’ inwarde thoughts of men | |
| Doe open lye before thy face: | |
| Thou knowst how, where, and when | |
| Ech thing hath, is, or shall be done, | |
| Or else committed: thou | 10 |
| Hast perfite, newe, and insight good, | |
| Which way man’s heart doth bow. | |
| Thou, thou, I say, sole God of might, | |
| Beholdst the harts of men, | |
| What they pretend, what yll they worke: | 15 |
| So iustly iudge me then, | |
| And shut thy mercy from my soule, | |
| If slandrously my lypps | |
| Doe ope at all; or if my tongue, | |
| Of vaine presumtion, skypps | 20 |
| From this to that, or rashly run | |
| More than the truth doth vrge; | |
| Or more then that through extreame rage | |
| And force of sinfull surge. * * * * * * * | | | | |
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