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Lam ["How sitts this citie, late most populous,"]


7. Butt heretofore purer her Nazarite
Was then the snow, And Milke was not so white
As Carbuncles did their pure boddies shine
And all their polishdnes was Sapherine

8. They are darker now, then blackenes; None can knowe
Them by their face, as through the Street they goe
For now their skin doth cleave vnto the bone,
And withered, is like to drie wood growne.

9. Better by sword then famine tis to die
And better, through peirced then by penurie.
10. Women by Nature, pittifully, haue eate
Their children, drest with their owne hand, for meate.

11. Iehouah heer fully accomplishd hath
His Indignation, and powrd forth his wrath.
Kindled A fire in Sion which hath power
To eate, and her foundations to deuoure

12. Nor would the kings of the Earth, nor all which liue
In the Inhabitable world beleeve,
That any Adversarie, any Foe
Into Ierusalem should enter so.

13. For the Priests sinnes, and Prophetts, which haue shed
Blood in the streets, and the iust Murthered
14. Which when those Men, which they made blinde, did stray
Through the Streetes defiled by the way [CW: with] 		p.195 [196]