4 We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.

5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.

6 Aforetime we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, and nowe to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough.

Lamentations 5:4-6, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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