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| OLD 1 Iaacob, and his sons also, | |
| Were pinch’d with penurie, | |
| Wherefore hee charged them to goe | |
| And food in Egypt buy. | |
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| They went with griefe, and bought in feare, | 5 |
| Not dreaming of their brother; | |
| Nor did he countenance them beare | |
| More kind then any other: | |
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| Till when they came to him againe, | |
| Affection was so great, | 10 |
| He could no longer it containe | |
| Within his breast for heate. | |
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| With weeping eye and joyfull tongue | |
| Hee then did plainely tell | |
| Hee was their brother Ioseph, whom | 15 |
| To Egypt they did sell. | |
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| The joy of either was so much | |
| That neither now could beare it; | |
| Their sobbing passion was such | |
| That Pharaoh’s house did heare it; | 20 |
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| Who, understanding what they were, | |
| Commanded presently, | |
| With charets, horse, and furniture, | |
| For Iaacob they should hie. | |
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| So hee, with all his family, | 25 |
| Came thither out of hand, | |
| And, welcomed most louingly, | |
| Were plac’d in Goshen land. | |
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| In Goshen land did Iaacob see | |
| The fulnesse of his dayes, | 30 |
| And in his Sonne’s prosperitie | |
| His fill of earthly ioyes: | |
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| But solemnly before his death | |
| Hee blest his sonnes each one; | |
| And Ioseph eke gaue vp the breath | 35 |
| Ere many yeeres were gone. | |
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| Now when these fathers both were dead, | |
| And still their seed did grow, | |
| There rose a Pharaoh in his stead, | |
| That did not Ioseph know. | 40 |
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| Hee, tyrant-like, with heavy hand | |
| Of bondage prest them downe, | |
| And gaue the midwiues strait command | |
| The males to kill or drowne. | |
