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King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389
er were,
Herede god with loude bere,
And cride him mercy,
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627
Of ?e wondres ?at he dude
?o in ?at ilke holy stude,
ffor loue of allexi. 630
? By-seche we ?anne, ?erne & ofte,
Crist self ?at vs dere bo?te,
?at his grace vs sende, 633
?at we mote him seruy,
And for ?e loue of allexi,
To his blesse wende. Amen.
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King Solomon's Book of Wisdom,
A BOOK OF MORAL
PRECEPTS
AND PRACTICAL ADVICE (lines 1-105),
Taken from the Laud MS.
622's headless rymed Bible Story, and followd by the end of that Story, an account of
1 King SOLOMON'S love of Lechery, p. 85, l. 107-111. (For his Coronation, his Judgment on the Child claimd by 2 Mothers, and his Wisdom, &c., see p. 96-8);
2 of his son REHOBOAM, l. 113-131; and the separation of the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel, 132-146; p. 85-86;
3 legends of the prophet ELIJAH, 150; his raising the prophet Jonah*. [That Jonah was the son of the widow of Zarephath is in the Midrash Yalqut (a legendary Commentary on the Old Testament, called Yalqut) to the book Jonah, quoted from the Talmud of Jerusalem.--A. Neubauer.] (the widow of Zarephath's son, 1 Kings xvii. 17) to life, 156-65; going to Horeb, 166-73; his choosing Elisha, 174-7; burning up king Ahaziah's messengers (2 Kings i. 10-12), 178-199; and going to heaven in a fiery horse and cart (2 Kings ii. 11), 200-213; p.