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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Stanzas from “Sir Martin Mar-people”

LVII. John Davies

THEN let vs leaue this wretched world,

And cleaue vnto the Lord,

And turne from all our wicked waies,

In thought, in deed, and word:

That God from vs may turne his plagues,

Which we deserued haue;

That when our liues giue place to death,

Then death may swallowed be

Of life again, in heauen to dwell

With God in persons three,

In endlesse glory there to rest:

And that it so befall,

My heart, my mind, my tongue, and lips,

Doo pray: Amen, say all.