3 Kinge. That forfeiture of Noon to Night shall pay150
All the idolatrous thefts done by this Night of Day;
And the great Penitent presse his own pale lipps
With an elaborate loue-eclipse:
To which the low World's lawes
Shall lend no cause,155
Chorus. Saue those domestick which He borrowes
From our sins and His Own sorrowes.
1 Kinge. Three sad hours' sackcloth then shall show to vs
His penance, as our fault, conspicuous:
2 Kinge. And He more needfully and nobly proue160
The Nations' terror now then erst their loue.
3 Kinge. Their hated loues changd into wholsom feares:
Chorus. The shutting of His eye shall open their's.
1 Kinge. As by a fair-ey'd fallacy of Day
Miss-ledde, before, they lost their way;165
So shall they, by the seasonable fright
Of an vnseasonable Night,
Loosing it once again, stumble on true Light:
2 Kinge. And as before His too-bright eye
Was their more blind idolatry;170
So his officious blindnes now shall be
Their black, but faithfull perspectiue of Thee:
3 Kinge. His new prodigious Night,
Their new and admirable light,
The supernaturall dawn of Thy pure Day;175
While wondring they
(The happy conuerts now of Him
Whom they compell'd before to be their sin)
Shall henceforth see
To kisse him only as their rod,180
Whom they so long courted as God.
Chorus. And their best vse of him they worship't, be
To learn of him at last, to worship Thee.