Before  their  face  that  thei  mai  trace
His  fote  both  day  and  night

No  darknes  can  troble  them  than
No  cloude  shal  douske  their  sight
Thei  shal  not  straye  out  of  the  way
Be  cause  their  gide  is  bright^

O  ioyful  thinge  god  grant  oure  kinge
Grace  to  se  vs  hys  flocke
Led  on  this  short  for  our  conforte
By  gydes  of  Dauids  stocke

Then  shall  we  singe  praise  to  our  kinge
And  glorie  to  the  Lorde
Of  Israel  with  whose  Gospel
Our  lyfe  should  then  accord.
It  foloweth  next  nowe  in  the  lexe  (sic)

Greate  erthquacke  shal  be  sene

Which  shal  cast  doune  both  tower.  [_q.  and  toune]


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In  our  dayes  any  toune


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Castel  or  touer  that  through  the  powr
Of  the  erthquake  is  downe.
But  y'  we  might  therin  iudg  righ
The  causes  muste  be  knowen
That  do  so  make  the  erth  to  quake
That  tounes  are  ouerthrowen.
In  thys  we  must  their  iudgment  trust
That  haue  writ  of  the  same
Sith  theyr  writtinge  teachth  nothing
That  is  worthi  of  blame.
Ai  such  men  as  consent  vnto
Thys  thynge  puttynge  no  doubt
But  vapurs  make  y'  erth  to  shak
When  they  seke  a  waye  out.
In  caues  hollowe  thes  vapurs  growe
To  such  a  multitude
That  at  the  last  thei  wil  out  brast
No  strength  can  then  enclude


(Ninth  page.)
No  maner  wight  may  weld  their  migh
Nor  loke  for  any  grace.
What  saye  we  than  if  that  in  man
Thes  vapurs  maye  be  founde
Sholde  we  lok  for  then  any  more
The  shaking  of  the  grounde  ?

N   N


274  FRAGMENTS.
No  that  wer  vaine  for  then  certaine
We  myght  loke  for  a  beast
Lycke  to  a  beare  which  shold  appere
After  saint  Johns  beheast.
