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The Bishops' Bible (1568)
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The Acts of Thomas
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[1]By the waters of Babylon we sat downe there: also we wept when we remembred Sion [No book]
[2]We hanged our harpes on the Salon trees: in the mydst of it [No book]
[3]For there they that led vs away captiue required of vs some matter of a song: and [for] our waylynges myrth, [saying] sing vs one of the songes of Sion [No book]
[4][He aunswered] howe can we sing one of the songes of God: in another lande besides our owne [No book]
[5]If I forget thee O Hierusalem: let my right hande forget [her cunning. [No book]
[6]Let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth, if I do not remember thee: yea if I preferre not thee O Hierusalem aboue my most myrth [No book]
[7]Remember the chyldren of Edom in the day of Hierusalem: they sayde, downe with it, downe with it, euen to the grounde [No book]
[8]O daughter of Babylon who must lye wasted: happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast serued vs [No book]
[9]Blessed shall he be: that taketh & throweth thy litle children against the stone [No book]
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