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17 And Dauid mourned with this lamentation ouer Saul and ouer Ionathan his sonne, 18 (Also he bad them teache the children of Iuda the vse of the bowe: And beholde, it is written in the booke of the righteous:) 19 O noble Israel, he is slaine vpon thy hie places: howe are the mightie ouerthrowen? 20 Tell it not in Gath, nor publishe it in the streates of Askalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce, and lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph. 21 Ye mountaynes of Gilboa, vpon you be neither deawe nor raine, nor fieldes of offeringes: For there the shield of the mightie is cast downe, the shielde of Saul, as though he had not ben annoynted with oyle. 22 The bowe of Ionathan neuer turned backe, neither did the sword of Saul returne emptie fro the blood of the slayne, and from the fat of the mightie. 23 Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasaunt in their lyues, and in their deathes they were not deuided: They were swyfter then Egles, and stronger then Lions. 24 Ye daughters of Israel weepe ouer Saul, which clothed you in scarlet with pleasures, and hanged ornamentes of golde vpon your apparell. 25 Howe were the mightie slayne in the middest of the battel? O Ionathan thou wast slayne in thyne hye places. 26 Wo is me for thee my brother Ionathan, very kinde hast thou ben vnto me: Thy loue to me was wonderful, passing the loue of women. 27 O how are the mightie ouerthrowen, and the weapons of warre destroyed? 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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