Versos English Elkanah Settle Finis.

English poem

Finis.

by (1648–1724)

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ERRATA.

The Reader is desired to Correct these following Mistakes.

Page 1. line 12. for Hold, read Held. [Hold but their Crowns at his Almighty Will.] p. 4. l. 22. r. Ships; [Dan from her Ship, and Asher on the Shore.] ibid. l. 26. for Kindl'd r. Bank'd; [Kindl'd their embattel'd Fires for Deborah's Wars,] ibid. l. 32. r. the Mighty; [The Mighty Deborah's, God's, and Israel's Foes.] ibid. l. 37 for they r. thus; [Thus sung, they conquer'd Deborah; thus fell] p. 7. l. 18. for poor, r. weak; [Preach to poor Female half-Soul'd Proselytes.] p. 9. l. 3. & 4. for his r. a; [What Knees, what Necks to mount him to his Throne; What Gems, what Stars to sparkle in his Crown?] l. 6. for the, r. ye; [But oh the Pow'rs, by treacherous snakes beguil'd,] ibid. l. 20. r. Walls; the Billows pour; [Down crack the Chrystal Walls the Billows pow'r,] p. 12. l. 11. r. lov'd Israel; [That still in its Lord Israel takes delight,] p. 19. l. 27. for loo r. race [illegible, possibly "rate"] [To loo the Bloodhounds off to save the Plot.] p. 22. l. 10. r. Excluding. [Th'encluding Sanedrims Resolves once shake;]

[Additional errors and anomalies noted by transcriber:

(Title, after dedication) Absalom Senior catchword on previous page has "Abso-" Whilst th'universal Drones buz to his Hives. apostrophe missing If this last Masterpiece requires a Soul. "f" ("If") invisible The Uppermost, indisputably Best. text reads "indsputably" This final Resolution made, at last line printed after break, but not indented But t'Heavens Vice-gerents, Soul, Sense, Reason, all, the word "vice-gerent" occurs twice Why did not th'Oaths of his once-great Colleagues, apostrophe missing Th'Embroiderd Mantle from his Neck he threw. apostrophe missing By profane Crowds in dirt his Prophets spurn'd, apostrophe invisible ]

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