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Raphael. Transfiguration. c.1520. Vatican Museums.
  
			Two Bookes of Ayres: 
The First Booke
  
            XV. 
             
      
	  		
    Sing a song of ioy 
        Prayse our God with
mirth : 
His flocke who can destroy? 
Is hee not Lord of heau'n and earth? 
             
    Sing wee then secure, 
        Tuning well our strings
            : 
With voyce, as Eccho pure, 
Let vs renowne the King of Kings. 
             
    First who taught the day 
        From the East to rise?                                               
10 
Whom doth the Sunne obey 
When in the Seas his glory dyes? 
             
    Hee the Starres directs 
        That in order stand : 
Who heau'n and earth protects 
But hee that fram'd them with his hand? 
             
    Angels round attend, 
        Wayting on his will ; 
Arm'd millions hee doth send 
To ayde the good or plague the ill.                              
20 
             
    All that dread his Name, 
        And his Hests obserue, 
His arme will shield from shame : 
Their steps from truth shall neuer swerue. 
             
    Let us then reioyce, 
        Sounding loud his
prayse : 
So will hee heare our voyce 
And blesse on earth our peacefull dayes.
 
  
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 124-125. 
             
            
            
  
	  
  
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