With the commencement of the next verse, some few brave, but quavering voices joined him.
“What things I either did or spake
they wrest them at their wil,
And al the councel that they take
is how to work me il.”
But before the third verse ended, all were singing, judges and soldiers, and the sweet voices of the women and the shrill notes of the little children.
“They al consent themselves to hide
close watch for me to lay:
They spie my paths and snares have layd