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then I hope the Reader will be fatisfied, that it is
pot fueh a bold, ignorant and confident Aflertion,
but a great Truth, to affirm. That the P[aims of
David were not originally written in Rhime. .
1 (hall obferve this method, for the Englilh
Reader's better Satisfadion :
1. Set dowjQ the Hebrew Words in Hebrew
Charaflers.
2. The Hebrew Words In Englilh Charaders.
3. The matter of them in EngliOi Words
and Englifh Gharaflers, that it may be made obvious
to all.
I fhali begin with hisfirflEx'ample, Pfal. 8. 5.
but the words are in vcr, 4.
Mahetjojh ki-tizkeremn ?
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Vhen adam^ ki tiphkedenm P
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What is ptan^ that thou art mindful ofhi/fr /*
u4/24 the fqn of man^ that thou vifiteft him i
Here it's manifefl:, ifl. That thefe arc unequal
Feet, one having tight Syllables, and the other
nine. idly. That the Englilh, although it be
Profe, and intended for no other j
yet it's as
good Rhime as the Hebrew, and as good metre
for the grft line is ten, and the fecond is eleven