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Later pages include the following texts from the Old Testament and Paradise Lost:

And all King Solomon's drinking vessels were of Gold, and all the vessels of the House of the forest of Lebanon were of pure Gold ; none were of silver : it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

For the King had at sea a Navy of Tharshish with the Navy of Hiram :

Once in three years came the Navy of Tharshish, bringing Gold, and Silver, Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks.

So King Solomon exceeded all the Kings of the Earth for Eiches and for Wisdom.

And all the Earth sought to Solomon, to hear his Wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

And they brought every man his Present, Vessels of Silver, and Vessels of Gold, and Garments, and Armour, and Spices, Horses, and Mules, a rate year by year.

And Solomon gathered together Chariots and Horsemen : and he had a thousand and four hundred Chariots, and twelve thousand Horsemen, whom he bestowed in the Cities for Chariots, and with the King at Jerusalem.

And the King made Silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and Cedars made he to be as the Sycomore trees that are in the Vale, for abundance.

But King Solomon loved many strange Women (together with the Daughter of Pharaoh), women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites; of the Nations concerning which the Loed

said unto the Children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you : for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods :

Solomon clave unto these in love. And he had seven hundred Wives, Princesses, and three hundred Concubines : and his Wives turned away his heart.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his Wives turned away his

heart after other gods : and his heart was not perfect with the Lord

his God, as was the heart of David his father. For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after

Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after

the Lord, as did David his father.                   1 Kings x. 21-27 ; xi. 1-6.

For those the Race of Israel oft forsook
Their living strength, and unfrequented left
His righteous Altar, bowing lowly down
To bestial Gods ; for which their heads as low
Bow'd down in Battel, sunk before the Spear
Of despicable foes. With these in troop
Came Astoreth, whom the Phoenicians call'd
Astarte, Queen of Heav'n, with crescent Horns ;
To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon
Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs,
In Sion also not unsung, where stood
Her Temple on th' offensive Mountain, built
By that uxorious King, whose heart though large,
Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses, fell
To Idols foul."                              Paradise Lost, Ed. 1667, bk. i. 11. 432-446.

The crested Cock whose clarion sounds
The silent hours, and th' other whose gay Traine
Adorns him, colour'd with the Florid hue
Of Eainbows and Starrie Eyes."
                             Paradise Lost, Ed. 1667, bk. vii. 11. 443-446. 24

Bibliography

_____. Bible Beasts and Birds: A New Edition of Illustrations of Scripture by an Animal Painter. London: Kegan Paul, 1886. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the Getty Institute. Web. 11 January 2021.

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