The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin

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Title: The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin
Publication: [Imprinted at London :: By William Baldwin, seruaunt with Edwarde Whitchurche],; M. D. XLIX [1549]
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English -- Early works to 1800.
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WE haue a sister young and small,
Whome J dyd leaue behynde.
Within the place where ye dyd call
Me from my mother blynde.

She is so young in Christes truthe
That yet she hath no teates:

She wanteth brestes to feede her youth. With sounde and perfect meates.

To our sister therfore so weake,
What shall we doe, saye you:
Whan we to her the wurdes shall speake
Of Christes gospell true?

J in my harte desyer ryght sore
My sister rude to teache:
What must we doe to her therfore,
Whan we begyn to preache?