And Church thats Catholick.”
Hopkins,[79] who was a schoolmaster of Suffolk, and the more immediate associate of Sternhold, thus expostulates with the Deity:—
“Why doost withdraw thy hand aback
And hide it in thy lappe?
Oh, plucke it out, and be not slacke
To give thy foes a rap!”
As something worthier from these old psalmists’ versing, I give this of Sternhold’s:—
“The earth did shake, for feare did quake,
The hills their bases shook