8 For light alike is loathed of them and you,
of > by
9 And all that lewdness love, do hate the light to see.
lewdness > wickedness, evil behaviour; ignorance
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For day discouers all dishonest wayes,
2 And sheweth each thing, as it is indeed:
The prayses of high God he faire displayes,
4 And his large bountie rightly doth areed.
+Dayes dearest children+ be the blessed seed,
6 Which darknesse shall subdew, and heauen win:
Truth is his daughter; he her first did breed,
8 Most sacred virgin, without spot of sin.
Our life is day, but death with darknesse doth begin.
5 Dayes dearest children > The children of day 1590
1 "For Day discovers all dishonest ways, 2 And shows each thing as it is indeed: 3 The praises of high God he fair displays,
fair > becomingly; well, expertly displays > makes manifest; expounds
4 And His large bounty rightly does aread.