4 Lest my proud enemy, If now my trust should fail, And those that persecute me cry; See, thus we still prevail: A pretty speech that! XIV. PSALM OF DAVID: 1 Hence virtue in the world declines, Without question virtue And all men vicious grow. declines with a vengeance when all men grow vicious. 2 And see who would His being own, What other way is And Him, as God, adore: there of adoring? 3 (2) But they were all perverted grown, (2) But they were all Polluted all with blood, perverted grown, And other impious crimes; not one In spite of Dr. Gibbs Was either just (3) or good. his blood: Of all his impious rhimes not one Was either just or good. (3) For a man (it seems) may be good and not just. 4 Are they so stupid (4) then, said (5) God, (4) The fault was not_ Who thus My (6) saints devour! that they devoured__ These (7) crimes have they not understood, saints,_ but that they Nor thought upon My power! were stupid. Qu: Whether stupidity makes men devour saints, or devouring saints makes a man stupid? I believe the latter, because they may be apt to lie heavy in one's stomach. (5) Clod. (6) Strains. (7) Rhimes. 7 (1) O, that His aid we now might have (1) And O that every From Sion's holy hill, parish clerk, That God the captive just would save, Who hums what Brady cribs And glad all Israel. From Hopkins, would read this work, And glad the heart with Gibbs. XV. PSALM OF DAVID: _Representing the character of a good man_. And a bad poet. 2 Sincere, and just, who never lie;_ 3 And so their neighbour ne'er deceive, How _so_?