ALL 1 English hearts, rejoyce and sing, | |
| That feares the Lord, and loues our Queene; | |
| Yeeld thanks to God our heauenly King, | |
| Who hytherto hir guide hath been. | |
| With faithfull hartes, O God! we raue, | 5 |
| Long life on earth her grace may haue! | |
| We laud and prayse | |
| His name allwayes, | |
| Who doth our Queene defend; | |
| And still we pray | 10 |
| God night and day, | |
| To keep her to the end. | |
| Thou, Fame, flye out, | |
| Send all about, | |
| How that with hart and voice, | 15 |
| In spite of those | |
| That bee her foes, | |
| This day we doe rejoyce. | |
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| As Dauid may, her grace may say— | |
| If open foes an oath had sworne, | 20 |
| To seeke her life with bloodie knife, | |
| It might the better haue been borne: | |
| But those to whom she bare good will, | |
| With spite did seeke her blood to spill. | |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | 25 |
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| A Judith just shee still hath beene; | |
| A louing prince to subjects all; | |
| She is our good and gracious queene: | |
| Lord, bless her that shee neuer fall | |
| In any danger of hir foes; | 30 |
| But safely keepe her, Lord, from those. | |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | |
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| Confound them all that wickedlie | |
| Pretend her hurt in any part; | |
| O Lord, make known their villanie, | 35 |
| That they may haue their due desart: | |
| That all the worlde may knowe and see | |
| That thou dost hate their treacherie. | |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | |
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| Devide, O Lorde! and make a spoyle | 40 |
| Of them and all they have possesst; | |
| As thou hast giuen some the foyle, | |
| Like guerdon graunt to all the rest, | |
| That wish or will to worke her woe— | |
| Thy anger, Lorde, upon them shoe. | 45 |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | |
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| If on our side God had not beene, | |
| When traitours sought much blood to spill, | |
| This day of joy we had not seene, | |
| But had been subject to their will. | 50 |
| But God doth aye all those defend, | |
| That on him doe only depend. | |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | |
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| Let belles ring out; let joy abounde; | |
| Let earth and ayre bee fild with noyse; | 55 |
| Let drommes strike vp, let trumpets sound, | |
| Let musicke sweete shew foorth our joys: | |
| And let vs all with one accord, | |
| To see this day, joy in the Lord. | |
| We laude and prayse, etc. | 60 |
