The force of his argument lies here: he does 3 For if the Power, in which they trust, not fear his enemies, Should fail, how helpless are the just! because if God's power should fail he has no help. 6 And on their impious heads will pour (1) A shower of snares Of snares (1) and flames a dismal shower; on a man's head would And this their bitter cup must be do wonderful execution. (2) To drink to all eternity: However, I grant it is a scurvy thing enough to swallow them. (2) To taste the doctor's poetry. XII. PSALM OF DAVID: 1 O Lord, some help for me provide, He can confide in but For in but few I can confide, few because all are. All men are so perfidious grown; perfidious. Smoke that! 2 True mutual kindness they pretend, Did ever any man pretend mutual kindness to another? 3 But God those flatterers will confound, Qu: whether flatterers That with abusive lies abound, usually abound with And proudly boast their vicious ways, abusive lies? 4 That say, with our deceitful tongues If they say thus they are silly flatterers. 6 And since He thus was pleased to say, That comparison is Like gold refined from base alloy, well applied. His promise never can deceive; (3) (3) Deceive. Pronounce this like a beau. 7 And therefore will their cause assert, Examine well the grammar Who thus are pure and true of heart, and sense and the And save them from the enemy; elegance of this stanza. 8 For, when th' ungodly meet success, Here the author separates The wicked more and more increase,(1) the wicked from And proudly all their foes defy. the ungodly. (1) Incr_ess_. XIII. PSALM OF DAVID: 1 How long wilt Thou neglect, A civil question that! O Lord, to hear me pray! 3 Attend, and hear my cries, Mind me, Sir! Some comfort now disclose, E'er grief has shut my weeping eyes Which would be nonsense, In death's obscure repose: put in prose.