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this Esdras went up from Babylon as a scribe

& they feasted with instruments of music & of gladness

& roasted the Passover with fire as appertaineth

& such a Passover was not kept in Israel since

the time of the prophet Samuel; as for the house

of the Lord they burnt it, & brake down the walls of Jerusalem

& set fire upon her towers, now if this city

& the walls thereof be re-made they will also rebel

against kings for ye have defiled your hands with blood

the evil is sown but the destruction is not yet come

& we are not better than they that there did die

they that dwell upon the earth may understand nothing

& as for the truth it endureth as is always strong

for the world has lost his youth & the times wax old