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3 That clad this earth with herbe, with trées, and sundrie The earth. 
fruites, 
With beast, with bird, both wild and tame, of strange and 
sundrie suites : 
That intermixt the same with mines like veines of Ore, 
Of siluer, golde, of precious stones, and treasures many 
more. 
4 That ioyned brookes to dales, to hilles fresh water springs, iG ES 
With riuers swéete along the méedes, to profit many things : snowe. 
That made the hoarie frosts, the flakie snowes so trim, 
The honie deawes, the blustering windes, to serue as 
pleaseth him. 
5 That made the surging seas, in course to ebbe and flo, The seas. 
That skilfull man with sailing ship, mought trauell to 
and fro: 
And stored so the same, for mans vnthankfull sake, 
That euery nation vnder heauen mought thereby profit take. 
6 That gaue to man a soule, with reason how to liue, The soul 
That doth to him and all things else, his blessing dailie giue: fae 
That is not séene, yet séeth how man doth runne his race, 
Whose dailie workes both good and bad, stand knowne 
before his face. 
7 That sendeth thundring claps, like terrours out of hell, — Thunder 
That man may know a God there is, that in the heauens peat 
doth dwel: 
That sendeth threatning plagues, to kéepe our liues in awe, 
His benefites if we forget, or do contemne his lawe. 
8 That dailie hateth sinne, and loueth vertue well, Bull ok 
And is the God of Abraham, Isac, and Israell, 
That doth displeasure take, when we his lawes offend, 
And yet amids his heauie wrath, his mercie doth extend. 
