TSK · Ecclesiastes 2:8

I am this day foure score yeres olde: & can I deserue betweene good or euyll? Hath thy seruaunt any taste in that he eateth or drinketh? Can he heare any more the voyce of syngyng men and women? wherfore the should thy seruaunt be yet a burthen vnto my lord the king?

And they came to Ophir, and set from thence foure hundred and twentie talentes of golde, and brought it to king Solomon.

The waight of golde that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred theescore and sixe talentes of golde,

And he had seuen hundred queenes, and three hundred concubines: and his wyues turned away his heart.

In whose steade king Rehoboam made brasen shieldes, and committed them vnto the handes of the keping of the captaynes of the garde, which wayted at the doore of the kinges house.

All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement.

And king Solomon made two hundred tarkets of beaten golde: and sixe hundred sicles of beaten golde were spet vpon one target.

They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce.

All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie.

Therfore when all the folke heard the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, and al instrumentes of musicke, then all the people, nations, and languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp.

They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid.