I goe Whiles my foe oppresseth me O send out in brightnesse For my soules uprightnesse And to guide me in the way Thy lights beames reflecting And thy truth directing That my steps go not astray To thy holy hill And supernall palace Lord conduct me still By thy truth and grace To thy Temple so God of ioy and solace Thy Courts will I go Even thy holy place On the harpe with glee I 'le give thankes to thee Thou O God my God most deere Why art thou so vext O my soule perplext In so sad and heavie cheere O in God most holy Put thy trust then wholly Vnto him will I give praise That in favour ever Doth to me persever God my hope and helpe alwaies PSALME 47. ALl people clap your hands Sing laud unto the Lord Advance your notes with merry noise And telling tune with ioyfull voice His wonders all abroad For why above all lands The Lord is high and great A terrible and mighty King Angell quires his praises sing In heaven his glorious seat The people under us be subdu'd Vnder our feet the nations rude So the Heathen all He did make and shall Vnder our feet to fall For his owne sake alone And he himselfe an heritage The flowring worship of that age For us now to whose Race his lore he showes And Iacobs glory chose His welbeloved one God he is out of the earth Ascended up on hie Gone in triumphs merry noise And with trumpets royall voice Vp to the starrie skie Sing to our God with mirth Sing praises to our King For God is King of all the earth Sing to him with greatest mirth With understanding sing God doth o're the Heathen raigne God that will his cause maintaine God that sits alone On his holy Throne And is other none Doth heaven and earth behold And how the princes all abroad Are to the people of Abrahams God Ioyn'd who they intend As with a shield defends All th' earth and to that end High only to be extol'd PSALME 63. GReat is the Lord on hie And great his praises still To be advanc't and spread abroad Within the City of our God Vpon his holy hill Mount Sion North doth lie And is a pleasant place Whence ioy of all the lands doth spring The City of the mighty King Doth so this mountaine grace In whose pallaces is showne God for a refuge surely knowne For lo the King each one Gathered and to get her gone Were astonied as thereon They gaze with wondring muse Suddenly driven backe they were Feare came upon them and sorrow there As on a woman in Travell and destroyed they bin Like the ships of Tharsis when With East windes thou wilt them bruise As we have heard it said So have we seen of old Within the City of the Lord Of hosts the City of our God That ever he will uphold O Lord we wait for aid Amid'st thy holy place According to thy Name thy praise Vnto the worlds end do raise Thy loving kindnesse and grace Thy right hand thy Saints confesse Lord is full of righteousnesse Hence Mount Sions voice And the daughters noise Of Iuda glad reioyce Cause of thy iudgements pure Compasse Sion compasse her walls Tell well her towers and bulwarkes all Marke well her towers that ye May tell posterity God 's our God and e're will be Our guide till death most sure PSALME 52. WHy dost thou boast thy selfe abroad thou tyrant that thou canst do ill The loving kindnesse of our God seene daily it continueth still Deceit and fraud do in thy bosome lurke and as thy lewd heart doth devise Thy tongue is making of despitefull worke like rasor sharpe it cuts with lies Thou euill more than good approu'st more than truth to speake lies and guile All words that may destroy thou lov'st O thou deceitfull tongue and vile Therefore shall God destroy thee plucke and take and root thee quite out of thy tent From the land of the living thee to make go in t ' eternall banishment The righteous shall see this and feare and laugh at him and say behold What is become of this man here that on his riches was so bold Lo he that tooke not God his fortitude but in his malice put his strength And in his riches and their multitude he fell and perisht thus at length But as for me I shall be seene in Gods house alwaies to persever Like to an Olive tree so greene my trust was in his mercies ever So I will alwaies praise thy holy Name for that O Lord thou hast done this I will hope in thy Name because the same before thy Saints so ioyfull is PSALME 57. HAve mercie O my God have mercie strait My soule doth trust in thee and on thee wait In shadow of thy wings my hope is plac't Vntill this tyrannie be over-past I 'le call unto the most high God even he God that performes his promise towards me For he will send from his high heaven save me From their reproofe would swallow deprave me God will send out his mercy and his truth My soule 'mong lions is I lie in ruth 'Mong mens sons that are set on fire their words Their teeth are speares shafts their tongues sharp swords Exalt thy self above the heavens O God Thy glorie aye on all the earth abroad Nets laid they in my way my soule t' oppresse Pits too but fell in their owne wickednesse My heart O God prepared is alwaies My heart 's prepar'd I will sing and give praise Awake my glory Lute and Harpe I 'le take And I my selfe right early will awake I will praise thee O Lord among the nations I 'le sing to thee among all generations Thy mercy great unto the heaven doth reach Thy truth exceeds and to the clouds doth streach Exalt thy selfe above the heavens O God Thy glorie aye o're all the earth abroad Awake my Violl Lute and Harpe awake To praise the Lord sweet musicke let us make PSALME 60. O God thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cast us out of yore And scattred 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 angry with us fore O turne againe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou hast made The land to tremble and with feare to fade O heale he breache for it fore doth shake The breache thereof that thy hands did make Thou shewest the people heavie things in fine Thou mad'st us drinke a draught of deadly wine But now thou hast advanc't an ensigne knowne A token given to them that are thine owne To them that feare thee and In cause of truth by them to be displaied That thy beloved may be fully freed Helpe with thy right hand heare me at my need God in his holinesse spake reioyce I shall Sechem divide and mete out Succoth vale Gilead is mine Manasses mine shal be Strength of my head is Ephraim Iuda he My Law-giver Moab my wash-pot nam'd I will cast out my shooc o're Edom fam'd So will I triumph and in this designe Shew thy selfe ioyfull for me Palestine Who will leade
and said Of sacred Sion so That in her is the most Hic There is he borne Is of Sion reported And famous men of yore Many that to the most Holy resorted And he will stablish her store Shew then he shall That the chiefest of all Had his beginning there When he doth his folke descry And all pleasant things My fountaines and springs Quire singers are in thee here O thou Citie of God most hic PSALME 93. THe Lord as King aloft doth reigne all clad and girt with power And maiestie in heaven so hic his seat and sacred bower Whereas no eie the Deitie c're saw save tending on her Those Angels faine and Cherub traineâ— with glory cloth'd and honour The world thou hast so surely plac't unmou'd it doth persever Thy throne much more secur'd of yore the heaven of heavens for ever Before the Chime of ruinous time this world's frame set or wrought on And aye her state beyond all date of time that can be thought on The flouds O Lord the flouds record thy praise and with their voices The flouds do rave lift up their waves and rage with horrid noises Though flouds with noise lift up their waves and seas enraged swelling With waves so hie would kisse the skie yet thou art higher dwelling Most mightie Lord true is thy word thy promise failing never And holinesse thy Saints professe becomes thy house for ever PSALME 97. THe Lord alone aloft doth raigne let peoples maz'd assemble He sits between the Cherubims though th' earth be mov'd and tremble The Lord is great in Sions seat and high above all nations Yea they shall fame thy fearfull Name throughout all generations 'T is holy sure and the Kings power iudgement prepares and loves it That iustice be and equitie in Iacob he approves it Exalt with praise my God alwaies upon the Lords Name calling 'T is holy knowne lo then bow downe before his footstoole falling Moses among the Priestly throng and Aaron who beleeved With Samuel one who call'd upon his Name and were relieved Out of the smoakie pillar spake he unto them while he drave them Like pastured sheep his lawes they keep and statutes that he gave them Heard them thou hast O Lord and wast so favourable to them How didst thou take for their deeds sake the vengeance due unto them Make Gods praise knowne lo falling downe before his holy mountaine For high in blisse and holy he is love grace and mercies fountaine PSALME 99. THe Lord in heaven aloft doth raigne and there triumphant sitting Let the earth reioyce with mirthfull noise and numerous Isles as fitting Blacke pitchy clouds and darknesse shrowds his throne on iudgement founded Fierce fires that trace before his face licke up his foes confounded His lightnings round shone on the ground th' earth saw it and was affrighted Mountaines like waxe did melt like flaxe were at his presence lighted His presence this whole world that is great Lord and mightie owner Heavens shew his glory and iustice story all Nations see his honour Where all that carved Idols served and glory in them confounded This Sion had heard and was glad through Salem mirth resounded So Iuda's voice and daughters noise thy hests and mercies on her O Lord most hie 'bove earth and skie all ye gods give him honour Who love the Lord hate vice abhor'd his Saints soules he preserveth From wicked and ungodly's hand who serve him he conserveth Sprung for th' upright in heart is light and for the godly sowne Are ioy and wealth and saving health and all good blessings knowne Reioyce O then ye righteous men this your memoriall raises To th' holy Lord with one accord sing everlasting praises PSALME 101. MErcy I will and iudgement sing to thee O Lord most holy And unto thee O Lord will bring my song and praier wholly Wisely I shall in perfect way untill thou come in brightnesse Do right and in my house alway walke in my hearts uprightnesse No wicked thing mine eies shall see deeds hate I of back-sliders A froward heart shall part from me and slanderous lewd deriders A priuie whisperer I 'le not brooke 'gainst neighbour to annoy him The proud heart high and haughty looke I cannot but destroy him Vnto the meeke mine eies are bent who in the land are faithfull Shall serve and dwell within my tent who 's profit not deceitfull The lyar shall my eie not pitie I 'le spoile the wicked wholly And cut off sinners from the Citie of God the Lord most holy PSALME 108. O God my heart prepared is so is my tongue and voice I will sing and give praise in this my glorie shall reioice Wake be not mute Harpe Violl Lute and I my selfe right early will awake Thy praise I 'le sing and Name O King 'mong Heathen knowne Nations will I make 'Bove heavens high thy mercie 's great thy truth reach't to the clouds Exalt thy selfe 'bove heavens seat all th' earth thy glorie shrowd That so set free thy beloved be help with thy right hand O God heare my voice In holinesse now hath God we know thus spoken I will triumph and reioyce For trophees Sichem I 'le divide and mete out Succoth vale Gilead is mine Manasses side unto my share shall fall Strength of my head is Ephraim stead of Law-giver is Iuda a wash-pot to me Is Moab I 'le threw â—'re Edom my â—â—oe o're Palestine â—'lâ— triumph and â—â—â—fall be who 'll leade me to the Citie strong me into Edom bring Wilt not thou who hast left us long againe O God and King Forth with us go our armies so 'gainst troubles t' aid's else help of man 's but vaine Through God shall we do valiantly who shall tread down our enemies cruell traine PSALME 110. THe Lord unto my Lord did say Sit thou at my right hand for ay Till at thy feet so humbly laid Thy foes I have thy footstoole made The Lord then out of Sion bright Shall send the scepter of thy might Thou shalt be ruler with thy rod Yea how commander thou shalt be Amidst thine enemies all shall see And in that day in which thy raigne They shall behold and power plaine The people free-will offerings shall And holy armie offer all Who presents shall to thee O King In beauty of holy worship bring For lo the dew of thy birth shewes Like wombe of youth and mornings dewes Like mornings dew dew of thy birth To far enrich and fresh the earth The Lord hath sworne and never may Repent thou art a Priest for ay After Melchisedechs order blest Of the most high God Saint and Priest The Lord at thy right hand that stownd Stately Kings in his wrath shall wound The heathen brought and Nations all Before his iudgement seat he shall Filling their places with their dead O're mightie Kingdomes smite th' head And drinking of the Brooke in 's way Lift up his royall head that day PSALME 114. WHen that Israel was bent out of
Egypt land And the house of Iacob went from that Barbarian strand Iuda was his Sanctuary and his holy bower Israel did see his glory dominion might and power So the sea that fled amaz'd saw it and admired Iordans floud that stood still and gaz'd turning backe retired Mountaines skipped like to rams and did quake for feare Little hils like trembling lambes silly ones they appeare O thou sea what didst thou aile that thou fled'st amazed Iordans floud that thou didst quaile turned'st backe and gazed Mountains that you skipt like rams and did trembling shake Little hils that like to lambes you did feare and quake Th' earth did tremble before the face of the Lord so victorious Of thy mighty and puissant grace Iacobs God most glorious Sea and land little hils and mountaines the Lord God do feare From the flint that maketh the fountaines rockes to gush rivers cleere PSALME 117. ALl Nations with mirth praise ye the Lord alwaies And all the kinreds of the earth set forth his noble praise For great is his grace his loving kindnesse ay Towards them that seeke his face and will no time decay The truth of the Lord endures for evermore Ye Nations all with one accord praise ye the Lord therefore All praise and honour be to Father glorious most God three in one and one in three with Son and Holy Ghost As since the worlds prime hath e're bin heretofore And is now at this present time and shal be evermore PSALME 121. I Lift mine eies Vp to the mountaines and the skies Fixing eye on sacred Sion Where my hope and helpe relies My helpe alone Comes from the Lord his glorious throne Heaven that made and earth that laid His footstoole that we stand upon It is he that helpeth thee Suffering not thy foot to slide He that keepeth thee not sleepeth No not slumbreth any tide For behold who Israel keeps Never slumbers once nor sleeps O he that keepeth Israel Never slumber him befell The Lord is hee That evermore preserveth thee He doth stand at thy right hand His shadow thy defence to be The Lord alway shall keep thee That the Sun by day Or Moone by night shall thee not smite Or harme with light or piercing ray It is he defendeth thee The Lord thy keeper and thy guide That doth still from all ill Save thy soule as at this tide He thy going out did blesse And thy comming in no lesse And who preserved thee heretofore Henceforth will and evermore PSALME 122. I Did in heart reioyce to heare the people say So lovingly with one accord Into the house of God the Lord We will goe up and pray Right ioyfull was the voice and gracious speech of them Our feet shall stand within thy gates O City thou of glorious state The faire Ierusalem Ierusalem is builded so neate Like to a City at unitie a seate Whereunto the Tribes resort Even the Tribes of the Lord To testifie with one accord His name unto Israel And so for to set forth the praise Of his holy Name alwaies And for this respect There were the thrones erect Of iudgement to direct And governe thy people well There were the thrones erect Of Davids house for ay Now therefore for the peace Of Ierusalem's encrease Let us for ever pray Let them all that do respect And love thee prosper still Ioy he within thy wals and peace And plentie in thy pallaces And on thy holy hill For my faithfull brethrens sake And companions I will make Praiers to God on hye For thee wishing thy Plentie and prosperity For ever to endure And because of the house we see Of the Lord our God in thee I will evermore Seeke thy welfare and store And to do thee good therefore In what I may procure PSALME 123. Vp to thee I lift mine eies thou that dwellest in the skies As the eies of servants bend on their masters hand to tend Or a maiden meeke applies to her mistresse hand her eies So O Lord our God do strait all our eies upon thee wait Till that thou looke downe upon us and O Lord have mercy on us Lord haue mercy on us then and forgive us sinfull men Save our soules that for thy sake much contempt upon us take Suffering fore rebuke and shame and ev'n filled with the same Whiles the rich and worldly wise with the proud do us despise Though their mocking stockes they make vs save yet O Lord and take us Vp to thee I lift mine eies thou that dwellest in the skies PSALME 124. IF the Lord him selfe had not been on our side may Israel now say but he is our guide If the Lord had not been on our side when men rose so furious against us they had swallowed us then They had swallowed us up quick in wrathfull displeasure their anger was kindled so hot above measure The waters had drown'd us then without controule the deep streame had gone even over our soule The fierce swelling waters of envie and pride had gone over soule with such a strong tide But prais'd be the Lord that hath not given us o're for a prey to their teeth that our souls would have tore Our soule is escap't like a bird with good speed from the snare of the Fouler that broken we freed Our helpe's in the Name of the Lord alwaies that hath made heaven and earth to his Name be the praise PSALME 126. WHen as the gracious and mercifull Lord Meant the delivery of his captived Sion And had againe in his mercy restor'd Their heavie losses his promise that relye on Then O then got from extreame Slavery and vilenesse We were like to them that dreame Freed from all servilenesse And with glee how did wee Triumph over sad annoy Being our mouth filled now with Laughter and our tongue with ioy So were the Heathen and Nations soone Forced to say and confesse before our faces What mighty things for them all he had done Praising his heavenly goodnesse and his graces Then O then how much more we Bound to magnifie him Having much more cause to be Glad and glorifie him For no lesse we confesse And recount with merry noise How great things To passe he brings For us whereat we do reioyce PSALME 130. OVt of the deeps in great distresse where doubts and dangers me oppresse I call to thee Lord heare my voice consider well my great annoyes And let thine eare receive my moanes my sighes my teares my plaints and groanes If thou shouldst be extreame O Lord to marke in thought in deed and word What 's done amisse O who shall stand under thy strict all-searching hand Or when in truth thine eies have tride it and iudgement Lord who may abide it But there is mercy Lord with thee mercy that feared thou maist bee And we will love and feare the same and waite upon thy holy Name I looked Lord and patiently my soule waits on the Lord most hye My trust is in his holy word my
mercy did guide And keep my feet that as long as I breath From the way they should never of godlinesse slide Nights Blacke terror fore did affright me Yet on thy rod and thy staffe did I stay 〈◊〉 blâ—â—ke errors 〈◊〉 did despite me 〈◊〉 by thy shepheard hooke chased away 〈…〉 face my 〈◊〉 with thy graces PSALME 108. MY heart and my tongue is prepared in song O my God my glory alwaies Awake Lute and Harpe I my selfe will awake right early to sing and give praise I will praise thee O Lord and thy mercies record I will sing unto thee among Nations And raise up alwaies thy great glory and praise among people and generations For thy mercy is great above heavens seat and thy truth unto the clouds reaching Exalt thy selfe hye O God above skye and thy glory o're all the earth streaching Thy beloved that we delivered may see send helpe from thy holy place O stand with us and aide us with thy right hand and heare us of thy good grace Out of his holy hill God hath spoken I will reioyce and Sichem divide I will mete out the vale of Succoth withall and Gilead he is on my side Manasses with me and Ephraim he is the strength of my head and stay And never to leave her shall Iuda persever Law-giver for ever and ay Men Moab shall see my washpot to be over Edom my shooe will I throw Triumphing in fine over Palestine I to the strong City will goe Who will leade me along into the same strong City of the Philistines their seat Who is he that will be a conductor to me to bring me to Edom the great O God why hast thou forsaken us now why wilt thou not helpe us O God Or why no more as thou used'st of yore went'st thou forth with our armies abroad Gainst troubles relieve us saving health give us vaine else is the helpe of man knowne So shall we through thee do right valiantly being thou tread'st our enemies downe PSALME 130. OVt of the lowest deepes depressed Doubts and dangers great distressed On thy mercy most relying Vnto thee O Lord with crying Sore with misery enthralled And with sighes and teares I called O heare heare O heare bow downe Thine eare attend and heare My sighes my cries my praier If thou straitly O most Highest What is done amisse descryest Who O Lord can stand before thee But for mercy we adore thee Mercy is with thee declared Mercy that thou maist be feared O heare heare O heare bow downe Thine eare attend and heare My voice my noise my praier I have waited Lord upon thee Yea my soule hath waited on thee I have trusted in thy word And my soule waits on the Lord Early ere the watch returning Morning watch the dawning morning O heare heare O heare bow downe Thine eare attend and heare My moanes my groanes my praier Israel wait on the Lord For with him is mercy stor'd And with his best excellences Great redemption from offences All his sins that Israel saveth And shall ever who so craveth O heare heare O heare 'twixt hopes And feares with sobs and teares My sighes my cries my praier PSALME 150. O Praise the Lord in holinesse You Saints of his his praise professe Within his Temple faire and trim And firmament of power praise him Praise him in all his noble acts His mightinesse and famous facts according to his excellence Of greatnesse and magnificence Praise him in sound of Trumpets noise Praise him with Lute and Harpes sweet voice Praise him with Cimbals and the like With Tabret Dances Strings and Pipe Praise him in Musiques sweetest ground On the well tuned Cimbals sound Praise him with pleasant Madrigals Loud Cimbals and sweet Virginals Let every thing doth life afford Breath out the praises of the Lord. A Table of the severall Psalmes with the tunes they are set too in this Booke Tune Psalme Page 1. The man of life vpright or a Lancashire tune or H. Pipe Thrice blest Ps. 1. pa. 1. 2. Q. Dido or Ia. Shore Thine ire Lord. ps 6. p. 2. 3. Goe from my window O L. our God ps 8. p. 3.  In the Lord. ps 11. p. 4. 4. Walsingham When that Israel ps 114 pag. 31. 5. I sigh as sure How long wi lt ps 13. p. 5  Lord within thy ps 15. pag. 6. 6. Dulcina Save me and. ps 16. p. 7. 7. Barow Faustus dreame L. the heavens ps 19. p. 8. 8. The Hunters Careere My shepheard ps 23. p. 9 9. The borders of Scotland Like th' Hart that ps 42. pag. 10. 10. Callaice or Crimson Velvet Iudge my cause psa 43. pag. 12. 11. All in a Garden greene All people ps 47. p. 13.  Great is the. ps 48. p. 15. 12. In the Towne or Susan I did in hart ps 122. p. 34.  Why dost psa 52. p. 16. 13. The Marigold that opens or Fortune Have mercy ps 57. p. 17.  O God thou ps 60. p. 18. 14. Palmas or Complaine my Lute Regard O L. ps 61. p. 19.  O God all ps 65. p. 21. 15. Faire Angell of England or Sweete Robin O Lo. do not ps 6. p. 45.  Thou O God ps 63. p. 20  If the Lord ps 124. p. 36. 16. Phillis Hilas or the fairest Nymphe the vallies O Lord how ps 84. p. 22. 17. New So Ho. Firmly for ev ps 87. p. 24 18. Queene of Love or Vnderneath the shadie The L. a king ps 93. p. 25  The Lo. alone ps 97. p. 26  The Lord in ps 99 p. 37. 19. Abram awake Mercy I wil. ps 101. p. 28. 20. Yellow ribbon or will you be gone O God my heart ps 108 pagâ—9 â—9 21. Iane Shore or Come sorrow The Lord unto ps â—â—0 pag. â—0 22. The same tune or Q. Dido Out of the deeps ps 130. pag. â—â— 23. Rich Merchant man or the tune of the 25. Psalme All nations ps â—19 p. â— Â Gloria patri  All praise c. ibid. 24. Moll Sims or Dulce Maria by Coperario I lift my eyes psa 12â— pag. â—â— 25. withers tune or Puichrior si sit Vp to thee I lift ps 123. pag. 35. 26. what if a day When as the. ps 136. p. 36 27. The Kings tune or who can blame my woe As we in Babylon ps 137 pag. 38. And the same in Greeke and Latine 28. To the tune of the 148. Psalme Praise ye the Lord. psal 150. pag. 39.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beatus vir psal 1. pag. 42. 29. Tune of the ordinary Psalmes or Rogero or Ladies fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beatus O. psal 128. pag. 43 44. 30. Daphne My shepheard ps 23. p. 46 31. Earle of Essex funerall Elegy or O Hone. Out of the lowest deeps psal 130. pag. 48. 32. Barbara or Starrie Diana My heart and my c. psal 108. pag. 47. 33. Iane Shore Aeneas or The like before c. O praise the Lord in psal 150. pag. 49. POSTSCRIPT HOwsoever these plaine tunes are thus fitted to these Psalmes for the benefit and use of the lesse skilfull it shall I hope be no prejudice to the excellent Musicians of this age but that at their pleasure they may fit them to more curious and delightfull tunes and aires whether now or anciently devised Errata PAge 3. Line 6. moane reade moanes Page 4. Li. 8. bow reade bowes and line 14. foundation reade foundations Page 10. line 14. that reade yet Page 13. line 15. thou reade then Page 15. line 17. King each reade Kings each one and line 18. to get her reade together Page 18. line 24. after and reade as in their aide Page 20. line 6. praise reade praises and line 8. daily pay reade duly pay Page 22. line 29. yeomen reade that men Page 26. line 3. waves reade voice Pag. 27. li. 7. lo reade low Page 29. line 2. for profit reade perfit and line 19. shroud reade shrouds Pa. 3â— line 14. after might reade that o're thine enemies all O God Page 32. line 14. towards reade Is towards Page 35. line 30. save yet reade save us yet Page 36. line 10. over soule reade over our soule Page 37. after line 9. supply this Verse following Turne then O Lord our bondage againe Like to the rivers out of the South descending That with their plenty do cover the plaine And water the vallies which way soever wending Then O then we here shall find They that low in sadnesse Leaving teares and griefe behind Reape in ioy and gladnesse Who indeed with precious seed Went out weeping on the way Turn'd againe not in vaine Bringing home his sheaves with ioy FINIS