abacke

Updated: July 12, 2026

"Why doost withdraw thy hand abacke and hide it in thy lappe? O pluck it out and bee not slacke to give thy foes a rap." "Rap" may have meant a heavier, a mightier blow then than it does now-a-days. Here is another curious verse from the seventieth psalm, "Confounde them that apply and seeke to make my shame And at my harme doe laugh & crye So So there goeth the game."

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England