He vaunts the bait; but be thou sure, a trap he lays.
His proffered sugarcandy poison will conceal.
His seeming kindly offices are treachery’s veil.
Should God ordain thy fall, thy sight will blinded be;
’Twixt friend and foe the difference thou’lt fail to see.310
Since thus it is, betimes betake thyself to prayer;
Fast, supplicate, entreat thee gracious God to spare.
Thus pray: “O Thou, to whom all secrets well are known,
Crush not Thy trusting servant ’neath sore trial’s stone.
If doglike acts I’ve acted, Thou who lions formest,