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Dear Heav'nly Muse, I pray thee, sing thy
Heart to me of one of the Prophets most
Knowne to all, Moses. ‘Ere he who hadst written
Of Genesis, of Exodus, of Leviticus,
Of Numbers, and of Deuteronomy, 5
Moses was borne in the nativitie
Of Lower Egypt, but yet an Israelite.
What paradoxe the Book of Exodus
Hadst done in its writings layde up for the
Remembrance, I canst betoken. Through the 10
Middle darkness of the Pharaoh of Egypt,
I hadst sang of the sorrow of the tragicall
Slavery that hadst, the heart of Moses,
Broken into the salt of his iniurious
Tears. But thank Heav'n, he hast escap'd and 15
Thus surviv'd of that malitious Egyptian
Of the Underworld. On the top of Oreb
Whence the burning bush hadst summon'd thee, Yahweh,
Thou didst hast foreseen Moses, betoken'd him
To regresse to Egypt and demand the 20
Pharoah shall set free the Israelites. Marry,
Yea Moses didst attempt'd but yet the Pharoah
Still didst replie'd with nay. Hence, Moses cannot
Stand high-lone and, thus, I shall sing to Yahweh
In the night sky and the dark clouds that encave 25
The Sun. With this, the death of the first-born,
The last of thy Ten Plagues, anon the Exodus
Along with the Israelites shall follow
After Moses of that hell-hated Egypt
To the top of Sinai through the Light of 30
Yahweh. Thither at Sinai, Moses shouldst
Deserue the Ten Commandments creat'd of Tablets of Stone.

Description
Dear Heav'nly Muse, I pray thee, sing thy
Heart to me of one of the Prophets most
Knowne to all, Moses. ‘Ere he who hadst written
Of Genesis, of Exodus, of Leviticus,
Of Numbers, and of Deuteronomy, 5
Moses was borne in the nativitie
Of Lower Egypt, but yet an Israelite.
What paradoxe the Book of Exodus
Hadst done in its writings layde up for the
Remembrance, I canst betoken. Through the 10
Middle darkness of the Pharaoh of Egypt,
I hadst sang of the sorrow of the tragicall
Slavery that hadst, the heart of Moses,
Broken into the salt of his iniurious
Tears. But thank Heav'n, he hast escap'd and 15
Thus surviv'd of that malitious Egyptian
Of the Underworld. On the top of Oreb
Whence the burning bush hadst summon'd thee, Yahweh,
Thou didst hast foreseen Moses, betoken'd him
To regresse to Egypt and demand the 20
Pharoah shall set free the Israelites. Marry,
Yea Moses didst attempt'd but yet the Pharoah
Still didst replie'd with nay. Hence, Moses cannot
Stand high-lone and, thus, I shall sing to Yahweh
In the night sky and the dark clouds that encave 25
The Sun. With this, the death of the first-born,
The last of thy Ten Plagues, anon the Exodus
Along with the Israelites shall follow
After Moses of that hell-hated Egypt
To the top of Sinai through the Light of 30
Yahweh. Thither at Sinai, Moses shouldst
Deserue the Ten Commandments creat'd of Tablets of Stone.