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Qui habitat.
TO him the Highest keepes | |
| In closet of his care; | |
| Who in th’ Allmightie’s shadow sleepes, | |
| For one affirme I dare: | |
| Jehova is my fort, | 5 |
| My place of safe repaire; | |
| My God, in whom of my support | |
| All hopes reposed are. | |
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| From snare the fowler laies, | |
| He shall thee sure unty: | 10 |
| The noisome blast that plaguing straies | |
| Untoucht shall passe thee by. | |
| Soft hiv’d with wing and plume | |
| Thou in his shrowd shalt ly, | |
| And on his truth noe lesse presume, | 15 |
| Then most in shield affy. | |
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| Not mov’d with frightfull night, | |
| Nor arrow shott by day: | |
| Though plague, I say, in darknesse fight, | |
| And wast at noontide slay. | 20 |
| Nay, allbe thousands here, | |
| Ten thousands there decay; | |
| That ruine to approach thee nere | |
| Shall finde no force nor way. | |
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| But thou shalt live to see, | 25 |
| And seeing to relate, | |
| What recompences shared be | |
| To ev’ry godlesse mate. | |
| When once thou mak’st the Lord | |
| Protector of thy state, | 30 |
| And with the Highest canst accord | |
| To dwell within his gate: | |
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| Then ill, nay, cause of ill, | |
| Shall farr excluded goe: | |
| Nought thee to hurt, much lesse to kill, | 35 |
| Shall nere thy lodging grow. | |
| For angells shall attend | |
| By him commanded soe, | |
| And thee in all such waies defend | |
| As his directions show. | 40 |
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| To beare thee with regard | |
| Their hands shall both be spred; | |
| Thy foote shall never dash too hard | |
| Against the stone misled. | |
| Soe thou on lions goe, | 45 |
| Soe on the aspick’s head; | |
| On lionet shall hurtlesse soe | |
| And on the dragon tread. | |
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| Loe, me, saith God, he loves, | |
| I therefore will him free: | 50 |
| My name with knowledge he approves, | |
| That shall his honor be. | |
| He asks when paines are rife, | |
| And streight receiv’d doth see | |
| Help, glory, and his fill of life, | 55 |
| With endlesse health from me. | |
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