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| | The wishes of the wise, |
| Which longe to be at rest; |
| To God with lifted iyes |
| Thei call to be redreste. |
WHEN shal this time of trauail cease, | |
| Which we with wo sustayne? | |
| When shal the daies of rest and peace | |
| Returne to vs agayne? | |
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| When shall the minde be moued right | 5 |
| To leaue hys lustyng life? | |
| When shall our mocions and delight | |
| Be free from wrath and strife? | |
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| When shall the tyme of wofull teares | |
| Be moued vnto myrth? | 10 |
| When shall the aged with gray heares | |
| Reioyce at children’s byrth? | |
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| When shall Hierusalem reioyce | |
| In him that is their Kyng, | |
| And Sion hill with cherefull voyce | 15 |
| Synge psalmes with triumphyng? | |
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| When shall the walles erected bee, | |
| That foes with furie fraye? | |
| When shall that perfect oliue-tree | |
| Geue odour like the haye? | 20 |
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| When shall the vineyard be restorde | |
| That beastlye bores deuour? | |
| When shall the people, late abhorde, | |
| Receuye a quiet houre? | |
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| When shal the spirit more feruent be | 25 |
| In vs that want good wyll? | |
| When shall thy mercies set vs free | |
| From wickednesse and yll? | |
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| When shall the serpentes, that surmise | |
| To poyson thine electe, | 30 |
| Be bounde to better exercise, | |
| Or vtterly reiecte? | |
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| When shall the bloude reuenged be | |
| Which on the earth is shed? | |
| When shall synne and iniquitie | 35 |
| Be caste into the ded? | |
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| When shall that man of synne appeare | |
| To bee euen as he is? | |
| When shal thy babes and children dere | |
| Receyue eternall blisse? | 40 |
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| When shall that painted hore of Rome | |
| Be cast vnto the grounde? | |
| When shal her children haue their dome, | |
| Which vertue would confounde? | |
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| When shall thy spouse and turtle-doue | 45 |
| Be free from bitter blaste? | |
| When shal thy grace our sinnes remoue | |
| With pardon at the laste? | |
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| When shal this lyfe translated bee | |
| From fortune’s fickell fall? | 50 |
| When shall true faith and equitie | |
| Remaine in generall? | |
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| When shall contention and debate | |
| For euer slake and cease? | |
| When shall the daies of euill date | 55 |
| Be tourned vnto peace? | |
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| When shall trew dealing rule the roste | |
| With those that bye and sell, | |
| And single minde in euery coaste | |
| Among vs bide and dwell? | 60 |
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| When shall our mindes wholly conuert | |
| From wealth and worldlye gayne? | |
| When shall the monynges of our harte | |
| From wickednes refrayne? | |
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| When shall this flesh retourne to duste, | 65 |
| From whence the same did spryng? | |
| When shal the triall of our trust | |
| Appeare with triumphyng? | |
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| When shal the trumpe blow out his blast, | |
| And thy dere babes reuiue? | 70 |
| When shal the hoare be headlong cast, | |
| That sought vs to depryue? | |
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| When shall thy Christ our Kyng appeare | |
| With power and renowne? | |
| When shall thy sainctes that suffer here | 75 |
| Receyue their promest crowne? | |
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| When shall the faithfull firmely stande | |
| Before thy face to dwell? | |
| When shall thy foes at thy lyfte hand | |
| Be caste into the hell? | 80 |
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