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The Lamentations of Ieremy
for the most part according
to Tremelius
Chapter. 1
1 How sitts this Citty late most populous [34]
Thus solitary and like a widdow thus
Amplest of nations, Queene of provences
Shee was who now thus solitary is
2 Still in the night shee weepes, and her teares fall
Downe by her cheekes along, and none of all
Her louers comfort her, Perfidiously
Her frinds haue delt, and now are enemy
3 Vnto greate bondage and afflictions
Iuda is Captiue lead, those Nations
With whome shee dwells no place of rest affoord
In straights shee meetes her persecutors sword
4 Empty are the Gates of Syon, and her wayes
Mourne because none come to her solemne dayes
Her Priests doe grone, her maydes are comfortlesse
And shee is to her selfe a bitternesse
5 Her foes ar growne her head, and liue at peace
Because when her trangressions did encrease
The Lord strooke her with sadnesse, Th' Enemy
Doth driue the children to capitiuity
6 ffrom Syons daughter is all bewty gon.
Like th'Harts wch. seeke for pasture and find none
Hir Princes are; and now before the foe
Wch. still pursues them, without strength they goe

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