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

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The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin
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[Imprinted at London :: By William Baldwin, seruaunt with Edwarde Whitchurche],
M. D. XLIX [1549]
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15987.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2025.

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¶Christe to his perfect Spouse. xxix.
LOe, thou art fayer, loe thou art fayer my Loue, Doues iyes thou hast, in iudgement simplenes: Besydes thy paste that standes thyne iyes aboue, Thy goodly attyre of fayth and humblenes.
Thy heares also, thy truthes moste principal Are lyke a flocke of Goates moste quicke and pure, Whiche rounded are from of mount ❀ Gileal,

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The Byble boke, an heape of witnes sure.
Thy teath also, thyne argumentes most strong With whiche thou doest all heresies deuour, Are lyke the flocke whiche shorne cum vp along The washyng place, Gods wurd that doeth them scour.
Of whiche eche one in it two twinnes doeth bear, Gods wurd, and truth, and not so muche as one Js voyde therof: with these teeth thou doest tear Abuses byg, that thynke to rule alone.
Thy lyppes, thy speche is lyke the skarlet red, Whiche for the elect, thy sauiour Christ doest preache, Afflicte in fleshe, with bloud his crosse bebled, To faythfull folke a swete and pleasaunt speache.
Thy Chekes thy wurkes are louely, fayre and good Lyke to a broken piece of Pomegranade Whiche spring of faythe by merit of my blood, Besides thy tyre, my wurkes that wyll not fade.
Thy necke thy faythe, is lyke to Dauids tower, Whiche buylded is with bulwarkes, whereupon A thousand shyldes of truthe, whiche men of power Jn faythe, haue borne, doe hang to fraye thy foen.
Thy brestes, thy helpe to succour all that nede Alwayes at wurke, are lyke two litle twinnes, The whiche among the faythfull Lillies seede Tyll shadowes passe, and tyll the daye begynnes.
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