MOSES SANCTUS. Never shall this thing depart from my remembrance. Laud be for ever to thee, most merciful Lord, Which never withdrawest from man thy heavenly comfort, But from age to age thy benefits doth record, What thy goodness is, and hath been to his sort. As we find thy grace, so ought we to report. And doubtless it is to us most bounteous, Yea, for all our sins most ripe and plenteous. Abraham our father found the benevolence. So did good Isaac in his distress among. To Jacob thou wert a guide most gracious, Joseph thou savedst from dangerous deadly wrong. Melchisedec and Job felt thy great goodness strong, So did good Sarah, Rebeccah, and fair Rachel, With Zipporah my wife, the daughter of Revel, To praise thee, sweet lord, my faith doth me compel, For thy covenants' sake, wherein rest our salvation, The seed of promise all other seeds excel, For therein remaineth our full justification. From Adam and Noah, in Abraham's generation, That seed procureth God's mighty grace and power, For the same seed's sake, I will sing now this hour. _Clara tunc voce Antiphonam incipit_, O Emmanuel, _quam chorus (ut prius) prosequetur cum organis_. _Vel Anglicè canat_: O high King Emmanuel, and our liege lord! the long expectation of Gentiles, and the mighty saviour of their multitude, the health and consolation of sinners, come now for to save us as our Lord and our Redeemer. _Finit Actus quartus_. INCIPIT ACTUS QUINTUS. PATER COELESTIS. For all the favour I have showed Israel, Delivering her from Pharaoh's tyranny, And giving the land _fluentem lac & mel_, Yet will she not leave her old idolatry, Nor know me for God. I ahhor her misery: Vexed her I have with battles and decays, And must I plague her, I see no other ways. DAVID REX PIUS. Remember yet, lord, thy worthy servant Moses, Walking in thy sight, without rebuke of thee. Both Aaron, Jethro, Eleazar, and Phineas, Evermore feared to offend thy majesty, Much thou acceptedst thy servant Josua. Caleb and Othniel sought thee with all their heart, Aioth and Shangar for thy folk did their part. Gideon and Tola thy enemies put to smart, Jair and Jephtha gave praises to thy name. These to leave idols thy people did court Samson the strongest for his part did the same. Samuel and Nathan thy messages did proclaim. What though fierce Pharaoh wrought mischief in thy sight: He was a Pagan, lay not that in our light. I wot the Benjaminites abused the ways of right, So did Eli's sons, and the sons of Samuel. Saul in his office was slothful day and night, Wicked was Shimei, so was Ahithophel. Measure not by them the faults of Israel, Whom thou hast loved of long time so entirely, But of thy great grace remit her wicked folly. PATER COELESTIS. I cannot abide the vice of idolatry, Though I should suffer all other villany. When Joshua was dead, that sort from me did fall To the worshipping of Ashteroth and Baal, Full unclean idols, and monsters bestial.