Jewkes,
to sing a psalm; but her spirits not permitting, she declined it: But
after Mrs. Jewkes was gone down, she says, she recollected, that the
cxxxviith psalm was applicable to her own case; Mrs. Jewkes having often,
on other days, in vain, besought her to sing a song: That thereupon she
turned it more to her own supposed case; and believing Mrs. Jewkes had a
design against her honour, and looking upon her as her gaoler, she thus
gives her version of this psalm. But pray, Mr. Williams, do you read one
verse of the common translation, and I will read one of Pamela's. Then
Mr. Williams, pulling out his little pocket Common-Prayer-Book, read the
first two stanzas:
I.
When we did sit in Babylon,
The rivers round about;
Then in remembrance of Sion,
The tears for grief burst out.
II.
We hang'd our harps and instruments
The willow trees upon:
For in that place, men, for that use,
Had planted many a one.
My master then read:
I.
When sad I sat in B----n-hall,
All guarded round about,
And thought of ev'ry absent friend,
The tears for grief burst out.
II.
My joys and hopes all overthrown,
My heart-strings almost broke,
Unfit my mind for melody,
Much more to bear a joke.
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