not onely by Triades of verse but also by thys Triade included in mystery thoughe not expressely So determinyng the chiefe and laste woorke that thys blessed man so described in all the course of hys lyfe should meditate which acte in the next lyfe he shall most perfectly do and performe Therfore the Chaunter is not vntymely broughte in for fresher remembraunce to proclayme once agayne hys ioyfull Alleluya to ende therin to the glorye of God in Trinitie the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghoct to whome be all honour glory and praise euerlastingly Amen ¶ For the Coniunction of Psalmes and tunes FIrst ye ought to conioyne a sad tune or song with a sad Psalme And a ioyfull tune and songe wyth a ioyfull Psalme And an indifferent tune and song with a Psalm which goeth indifferently Psalmes of ioy be such as be constitute in the third and fift place of Athanasius table which be Psalmes consolatory and of thankesgeuyng with theyr Coniugates Sad Psalmes be such as be set in the fourth common place as Deprecatory and Interpellatory Indifferent be suche as be in the first and second place as Propheticall or such as do teach and exhort and such also as be mixte containyng diuers of the sayd fiue places For a difference of tunes fonges in this triple nature and diuersitie be vsed the thre charectes of the thre common accentes as the sharp accent to ioyfull songes and tunes The graue accent to sad The circumflect accent to indifferent Not yet by this meanyng to prescribe a rule to preiudice any mans peculiar spirit or eare for as there be diuersities of tastes in mens palaces So bee there in mens spirites and so also in theyr eares For what Psalme or songe one mans spirite shall iudge graue and sad some other shall thinke it pleasaunt And what one mans eare shall thinke pleasaunt another shall iudge it sower and seuere And therefore in this diuersitie I leaue it to euery mans spirite as God shall moue hym and to euery mans eare as nature shall frame hym I set thys onely in example for that it so agreed to my vnderstandyng inwardly and to myne eare outwardlye But such copulations would there be in Psalmes and songes who can attayne to that grace Omne tulit punctum c. which Dauid expressed and obserued who was a Christian deuine in sprite a perfecte Poete in hys Merre and an expert musiciō in ordering of his instruments and setting of his tunes agreably ¶ Fiue bookes of Psalmes according to the Hebrues The .1 from the .1 psalme vnto the 41. And they haue in the end eyther Fiat Fiat or els Amen Alleluya The .2 from .42 vnto .72 And they haue in the end eyther Fiat Fiat or els Amen Alleluya The .3 from .73 vnto .89 And they haue in the end eyther Fiat Fiat or els Amen Alleluya The .4 from .90 vnto .106 And they haue in the end eyther Fiat Fiat or els Amen Alleluya The .5 from .107 vnto .150 And they haue in the end eyther Fiat Fiat or els Amen Alleluya The nature of the eyght tunes ̄ 1 The first is méeke deuout to sée \ 2 The second sad in maiesty \ 3 The third doth rage and roughly brayth 4 The fourth doth fawne and flattry playth 5 The fyfth delight and laugheth the more \ 6 The sixt bewayleth it wéepeth full sore \ 7 The seuenth tredeth stoute in froward race ̄ 8 The eyghte goeth milde in modest pace ☞ The Tenor of these partes be for the people when they will syng alone the other parts put for greater queers or to suche as will syng or play them priuatelye ̄ The Meane MAn blest no dout who walkth not out in wicked mēs affayres And standth no day in sinners way nor sitth in scorners chayres But hath his will in Gods law still this law to loue aright And will him vse on it to muse to kepe it day and night The Contra tenor MAn blest no dout who walkth not out in wycked mens affayres And standth no day in sinners way nor sitth in scorners chayres But hath his will in Gods law still this law to loue aright And will him vse on it to muse to kepe it day and night Psalme 1. The first Tune Tenor. MAn blest no dout who walkth not out in wicked mens affayres And standth no day in sinners way nor sitth in scorners chayres But hath hys will in Gods law still this law to loue aryght And will him vse on it to muse to keepe it day and night Base MAn blest no dout who walkth not out in wicked mens affayres And standth no day in synners way nor sitth in scorners chayres But hath hys wyll in Gods law styll thys law to loue aryght And will him vse on it to muse to keepe it day and night \ Psalme 68. The second Tune Meane LEt God aryse in maiestie and scatred be his foes Yea flee they all hys sight in face to hym which hatefull goes As smoke is driuen and comth to nought repulse theyr tyranny At face of fire as waxe doth melt gods face the bad mought fly Contra tenor LEt God aryse in maiestie and scattred be hys foes Yea flee they all his sight in face to him which hatefull goes As smoke is driuen and comth to nought repulse theyr tyranny At face of fire as waxe doth melt gods face the bad mought fly Psalme 68. The second Tune Tenor. LEt God aryse in maiestie and scattred be hys foes Yea flee they all hys syght in face to hym which hatefull goes As smoke is driuen and comth to nought repulse theyr tyranny At face of fyre as waxe doth melt gods face the bad mought fly Base LEt God aryse in maiestie and scattred be his foes Yea flee they all his sight in face to hym which hatefull goes As smoke is driuen and comth to nought repulse their tyranny At face of fire as waxe doth melt gods face the bad mought fly \ Psalme 2. The third Tune Meane WHy fumeth in sight the Gentils spyght in fury ragyng stout why takth in hand the people fond vayne thinges to bryng about The kyngs arise the lordes deuise in counsayles met therto Agaynst the Lord wyth false accord agaynst hys Christ they go Contra tenor WHy fumeth in syght the Gentils spyght in fury raging stout why takth in hand the people fond vayne thinges to bryng about The kyngs aryse the Lordes deuyse in counsayles met therto Agaynst the Lord wyth false accord agaynst hys Christ they go The third Tune Tenor. WHy fumeth in syght the Gentils spyght in fury ragyng stout why takth in hand the people fond vayne thinges to bryng about The kynges aryse the Lordes deuyse in counsayles met therto Agaynst the Lord wyth false accord agaynst hys Christ they go Base WHy fumeth in sight the Gentils spight in fury raging stout why takth in hand the people fond vayne thyngs to bryng about The kyngs aryse the Lordes
Through c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XII This Psalme declarth for truth so falne to ground The poore mans care for truth so falne to ground When pride bearth sayle But God will it confound No truth preuayle But God will it confound 1 HElpe Lord so hye this case for why not one good man is more The faythfull gone scant any one theyr children mynished sore 2 They talke so frée of vanitie one neyghbour neyghbour to In tong they glose it double gose their hartes dissemble so 3 All lips so vayne God will them strayne and plucke them vp by roote Oh that he wrung the boasting tunge to treade it vnderfoote 4 For thus they rayle we wyll preuayle our tonges must matters breake For who dare thus be Lord to vs our tonges must onely speake 5 For thys the stresse of comfortlesse for sighes that poore men make Now ryse wyll I sayth God most hye and helpe theyr part to take 6 Gods worde is sure it is as pure from earth as siluer quit Though tryde be golde in fire seuen folde his worde yet passeth it 7 O Lord so graue thou vs shalt saue and euermore preserue From all thys route that be so stoute for euer thée to serue 8 These walke most wyde in wycked pryde all cruelty they frame Whyle they so far exalted are poore men be put to shame ¶ The Collecte HAue mercy of our frailtie most louing father and graunte that we may keepe thy holy wordes with pure chaste hartes to escape the manifold deceites of mad and vayne talkers in errour Through c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XIII For patience In trouble Dauid crieth For Gods desence In trouble Dauid crieth Lest deadly might Good hope in God he spieth Should blynd his sight Good hope in God he spieth 1 HOw long wilt thou forget me now for euer Lord my guyde How long wylt thou not me alow how long thy face wylt hyde 2 How long shall I thus heauely in soule séeke counsayle so How long my hart shall féele this smart to be thus vext wyth foe 3 O Lord my God represse thy rod heare now consider mée Myne eyes wyth lyght O cleare thou bryght dead sléepe lest they do sée 4 Lest that to hye myne enemye myght boast of hys preuayle If downe I were thys baratter would ioye to sée me quayle 5 But all my trust lyeth fully iust in thy good mercy still My hart thy helth shall ioy it selfe Gods goodnes laude I will The Collecte TOurne not thy face awaye from vs O God of all might and consolation lest our enemies preuayle against vs and so endue the hartes of vs thy seruantes with the reioysing spirite of thy saluation that we escape the dreadfull sleepe of second death Through Christ. c. The Argument Psalme XIIII This Psalme set out of sinners obstinate The carelesse route of sinners obstinate How far is syde which hold with God debate They wander wyde which hold with God debate 1 THe foole hath sayd in hart astrayd that God there is euen none In workes they are corrupt so far not one doth good not one 2 The Lord casth eye from heauen to spye the trade of Adams broode If that as there some wyse man were which God would séeke so good 3 But all astray haue take theyr way abominable made There is not one to do well none they all from truth decayd 4 For throtes they haue lyke open graue theyr tonges haue vsed deceyt And vnderslips theyr poyson lips of Aspes the venome beyt 5 Theyr mouthes do swim wyth cursings brim all bitternes to fyll Theyr féete make spede mans bloud to shede they force not whom they spyll 6 Destruction confusion in all theyr wayes do ryse Of peace no day they know the way Gods feare sée not theyr eyes 7 Haue they no mynd in hart so blynd in myschiefe how they go Who lyke as meate my people eate and God they call not to 8 But they shall there be once in feare where nought they feard in déede For God is spide most strong to bide wyth iust mans righteous séede 6 Where vaynly now ye mocke and mow at poore mans purpose iust When he is bent wyth fast entent in God to put his trust 7 Who els can spéede poore Iacobs séede wyth helpe from Zyon hill When God shall call hys people thrall reioyce all Iury will ¶ The Collecte VOuchsaue O Lorde to looke from thy holye heauens vpon the children of men and graunte vs to knowe the way of peace that we auoydyng the bondage of synne may haue the fruition of thy habitatiō in heauenly Ierusalem Through Christ. c. ¶ The Argument Psalme XV. Here Dauid craueth whom God alowth in sight And answer haueth whom God alowth in sight The sprite so sayth to worke by loue aright Who hath a fayth to worke by loue aright 1 WHo Lord shall byde by thy swéete syde In tabernacle sure Or who shall styll hold fast thy hyll which holy doth endure 2 Who walkth in state immaculate who blameles lyfe ensueth And rightwise déede fulfilth in spéede who speakth from hart the truth 3 Whose tonge in spyte doth not backebyte ne doth hys neyghbour euill Who cannot beare wyth quyet eare hys neyghbour slanderd still 4 And he whose eyes the bad despise and lawdth Gods fearefull men Who swearth also hys neyghbour to and chaungth not it ageyn 5 Who will not plie to vsurie hys coyne for lucres loue Who bribeth nothyng the iust to wryng oh he shall neuer moue ¶ The Collecte GRaunt we besech thee O bountiful lord god immaculate that we may walke in thy church without spot withdrawn wholy from the harmful workes of this wretched worlde so that while we labour to obserue the preceptes in earth we may at last attayne to thy heauenly habitation where thou raignest eternally one God the father the sonne and the holy spirite to whome be all honour and glory worlde wythout ende Amen ¶ The Argument Psalme XVI That Christ did pray and when himselfe did sue For his alway and when himselfe did sue His buriall the Prophet told full true His rise withall the Prophet told full true 1 O God of trust preserue me iust In soule and body to For why to thée my hope doth slée to none els will I go 2 O soule in sprite thou saydst aright to God who thée so wrought My God thou art of faythfull hart my goodes can vayle thée nought 3 All my delyght to sayntes full bryght is set which trauell here In vertues all celestiall they do excell so clere 4 Who multiplie theyr Idols hie and after them do gad Their sacrifice I whole despise I hate theyr names so mad 5 The Lord alone is porcion of myne inheritaunce My cup he is my crosse to blisse my lot he wyll aduaunce 6 My lot ful brode by lyne and rod so fayre did fall to mée That I reioyce the goodly choyce
of all our health in power most glorious 20 He is our God euen God I say all health and wealth to shape Yea death is ruld by God the lord whose dint by him we scape qwel 21 This God shal wound his enmies heds he shal their worthies Their heary scalpes to pare full nie that still in sinne wil dwel 22 God sayd I will restore as once from Basan myne I dyd I will returne all myne as once from seas most depe I ryd 23 That dipt thy féete in all their bloud may reade appeare aâ—eye That dogs myght licke their enmies bloud so read to be therby 24 Who lyst did sée O puissaunt God thy great procedings hie The goings iust of thée my God my king in sanctuary 25 WheÌ„ thanks were song first fingers went theÌ„ minstrels mouth theyr féete In myds were set the damsel maides who playd with timbrels swéete 26 When they in one were ioyntly met thus god they praysed wel From hart the ground they blest the Lord who sprang of Israel 27 Small Beniamin there ruler went so Iudas tribe theyr stone So went the Pieres of Zebulon and Neptaly came on 28 Thus god hath bid all streÌ„gth power for thée ful nye to be With strength O God coÌ„firme this worke that yâ— hast wrought so frée 29 FroÌ„ thy swéete house Ierusalem make this thy strength procede Then kings shal bryng theyr offerings to thée to praise thy dede once tamde 30 The launce mens routes once scatred wyde the peoples calueâ— When they shal stoupe and presentes bring and warring folâ—â— once shamde 31 Then shal the Pieres of Egipt land for this come meke in sigâ—â— Then Ethiops ful soone shal yeld to God their hands and might 32 O all ye realmes of all the earth sing ye to God of blis Sing psalmes and hymnes to testify how worthy prayse he is 33 To him that rydeth on heauen of heuens as he hath done of 〈◊〉 Lo he his voyce hath vttred forth a voyce most strong and bold 34 Ascribe to God all strength and myght to Israel so showed On whom hâ—s power no lesse is wrought then is on heauen bâ—â—stowe 35 O God thou art full terrible from out thy sanctuary This Iacobs God hys people aydth O blest be God therby ¶ The Collecte O Lord and gouernour whiche refreshest thy electe flocke with spirituall nourishment of all dilectation graunte vnto all thy congregation so to vnderstand thy victorious deth that we may alway confesse thy worthy victory against sinne death and hell and to honour thy maiesty now syttyng on the right hand of thy father to whome with thee and the holy ghost be all honor and glory for euer Amen ¶ The Argument Psalme LXIX A sute of man in trouble bounde that hath his hart opprest To Christ and his it nye doth sounde as Paule somewhere exprest 1 SAue me O Lord in heauines by woes depressed downe The ragyng waues of all distres be falne my soule to drowne 2 In myre so déepe I sticke full fast all bottomeles to sée In waters déepe downe am I cast the flouds haue whelmed mée 3 In crying still I wery go my throate is horse and dry Myne eyes be dimme and fainty so whyle God I wyshe to spy 4 My foes excéede my heares of head at me they causeles looke My foes preuayle that wyshe me dead I payd I neuer tooke 5 Thou know O God my folishnes if ought amisse I dyd My crymes of lyfe my simplenes from thée be neuer hyd 6 Who wayte on thée féele they no hostes of shame for my desert O God the Lord of Iacobs hostes let them féele neuer smart 7 Forsooth for thée susteyned I both shame and vyle reproofe My face is hyd for infamy so felt for thy behoofe 8 I was repute as stranger fremd to all my brethren bad As aliant so me condemnd my mothers children had 9 For why the zeale of thy swéete house hath me vp eaten quite On me fell dedes opprobrious of them that thée did spyte 10 I wept and fast my soule to chast my body low to bryng Thus when I dyd they did it cast to my disabelyng 11 When sackecloth course I put me on to mourne my griefe the more Theyr laughyng stocke and iestyng stone they made me then therfore 12 The Iudges eke which sate in gate on me they babled euill So dyd on me wyne bibbers prate yea songes they made theyr fill 13 Yet I O Lord prayd whole to thée in tyme acceptably For thy great ruthe and veritie wyth helpe heare thou my cry 14 O plucke me out of myre and sand before I sinke to stéepe Let me escape my haters hand to ryse from waters déepe 15 Let me no tyme by floudes and sea all ouerflowne to bée Nor let the déepe vp swalow me ne pit shit mouth on mée 16 This graunt to mée O God this day thy grace is liberall Turne thy respect to me I pray regard thy mercies all 17 Hyde not thy face and cherefull sight from me thy seruant poore For greuous woes on me be lyght make hast and heare therfore 18 Draw nye my soule to chalenge it redeme and saue it well For these my foes so haut they sit saue me from them so sell. 19 Thou knowst what spite what shame I beare what vyle rebukes I féele Myne enemies all that me do deare be known to thée full well 20 The shame hath pearst and rent my hart I féele all hartes disease I lookt if man would ease my smart but none was me to ease 21 In stede of meat for my repast they gaue me bitter gall In my great thyrst they esill cast to quenche my thirst wythall 22 Theyr table be to them a snare theyr swéete meates tournd to sowre And that for ioy they dyd prepare let theare but sorrow lowre 23 Theyr eyes be darke to sée no lyght and wyt be far fro them And make theyr loynes to réele vpright be they lyke drunken men 24 Poure out thy wrath these frekes to strike who walke so stubburnely And let thyne ire and wrath a lyke take hold of them full nye 25 Theyr dwellyngs fyne be they supprest that they theyr country lose In all theyr tents let no man rest theyr stocke no man to chose 26 For whom thou smitest they scourge in sport as though thou wouldst them so Of thyne afflict and wounded sort they talke wyth pleasure to 27 O let them fall from sinne to sinne as thou dydst plague the blynde And suffer not that they go in thy iustice it to fynde 28 Be they cast out of booke of lyfe who thus impugne Gods grace No where in booke memoratiue wyth iust men haue they place 29 As now for me for that I mourne in paynes and dolours lye Thy health to me O God returne to rayse vp me on hye 30 Gods name I wyll wyth prayse aduaunce in song full déepe in hart I will in hymnes hys laudes enhaunce hys grace
that man can do Most vayne to trust it is euen so 13 In God we shall all strong endure By hym to do â—duentures sure And he our foes shall sone debell To treade them down though hie they swell ¶ The Collecte PRepare our harts O Lord ready vnto thee to confesse the power of thy name and wheras we know how thou early as conquerour didst ryse to raygne in kingdome euerlasting so we may in life alway ryse from our earthly conuersation to be pertaker of thy heauenly resurrection to whom with the father and the holy ghost art one God worlde without ende Amen The Argument Psalme CIX Here Dauid vext by tyrannye hath Doegs spite bewrayed Whose successour we Iudas spye who falsly Christ betrayed 1 O God my ioy and all my prayse in whome I glory most Hold not thy peace thy vertue rayse destroy my haters bost 2 For wycked mouthes and mouthes of gile at me be open set Wyth lying lippes they me reuile wyth tonges most false they ief 3 Wyth hateful wordes they compasse me such gall in hart they haue They fight at my sinceritie they causeles me depraue 4 For loue I had to them in hart they séeke my hurt and bloud Yet dyd I pray to ease my smart wherin I wysht them good 5 For good they euil agayne requite to malice so they bend And so for loue I shewd in sight whote hate they do repend 6 Some wycked man O constitute â–ª on hym to breake hys band Let Satan stand and execute hys power agaynst hys hand 7 When iudged he be for any déede let hym as gilty come Hys prayers whole ill mought they spéede to sinne turnd all in some 8 And let his dayes abriged be in yeares but fewe to go His office eke withall his fee Some other take hym fro 9 Let all his séede and issue sprong full sone be fatherles And let his wife be widow young and curst with barennesse 10 As wandrels make his childrens stray to beg séeke their bread Depryued so their houses gay abroade to desert led 11 Yea let his goodes the vsurer all wholy catch in net And let also the forriner by spoyle his labours set 12 Let no man be in any place to pitye hys distresse And no man helpe with any grace his children fatherles 13 To wast be led his progenye to ioy in no degrée Their name be blot from memory no second age to sée 14 His fathers crymes be they reuiued in mynde before the Lord His mothers sinne to her deryued and styll of God abhord 15 Yea let them hange in open sight before the Lord for aye Dryue he their fame all whole quyte from all the earth away 16 Because no loue he had in brest to any nedy wight But did pursue poore man opprest to kill the hart contryfe 17 He curse ensued he ioyed therin it came hym home the more He blesse eschued none would he wynne it shal hym flee therfore â–ª 18 To cursednes he whole was set as clad for all the nonce As water yet his bowels wet as oyle it pearst his bones 19 Let it therfore â–ª as cloke to be hymselfe to wrape therin With gyrdell gyrt so like be he alway euen next the skyn 20 This mede from God to them befall which me resist in hate To them euen all in generall agaynst my soule that prate 21 But do thou Lord my Lord with me as it becommeth thy name For swéete is thy benignitye O ryd me far fro shame 22 For sore afflict and poore I wepe I am all destitute My hart within is wounded déepe in death nye constitute 23 As shadow fast I passe away as day doth low declyne As grashopper remouing aye from place I am so dryuen 24 My knées do reale all fatigate in fasting long from meate My flesh is dryed for lacke of fat or oyle to make it sweate 25 A foule rebuke to them I séemde on me they strangly gase As laughing stocke they me estéemd shoke their heads apace 26 O helpe me Lord my God withsaue to thée alone I clyue Preserue me sure thy grace I craue and shortly me reuyue 27 And let them knowe in this thy ayde that this is whole thy hand That thou thy selfe my state hast layd so strong by thée to stand 28 And let them curse so thou do blesse O Lord of all most drad Yea let them rise but foule to misse to make thy seruaunt glad â—9 Let all my foes with shame be broke as clad therwith echone Let them be wrapt as with 〈◊〉 cloke in their confusion â—0 And I with mouth will celebrate the Lord with thankes on hye Whom people most be congregate I wyll his laâ—des applye â—1 For that he stode in poore mans nede at his right hand so strong To saue his soule froÌ„ iudges drede who might him stroy by wroÌ„g ¶ The Collecte O Most pitifull Lorde and intreatable God whiche didst vouchsaue to be cast vnder the malediction of the law so bearyng the wrath of thy father to the ende that thou would discharge vs from all curse and malediction we beseche thee so to deale with vs mercifully that we may escape from the tyranny of synne that doth haunte vs and also to bee defended by the power of thy name from all cursed detractions of euill men so that we may fully ioy to be in thy fauour in the enmitie of the world to whom wyth thy father and holy sprite be all honour and glory for euer Amen ¶ The Argument Psalme CX Though Dauids raigne be somewhat ment Yet Christ is chiefe here prophecied Who was both kyng in regiment And priest in death then after stied To heanen to sit as priest and king His frendes to saue his foes to wring Wyth death the sting Ì„Ì„ 1 THe Lord most hye the father thus Dyd say to Christ my Lord his sonne Set thou in power most glorious On my ryght hand aboue the sunne Untill I make thy foes euen all Thy low footestoole to thée to fall As subiectes thrall 2 The Lord shall send from Zion place Of thy great power imperiall The royall rod and princely mace Whence grace shall spring originall Yea God shall say thou God vp ryse To raigne amids thyne enemies In princely wyse 3 The people glad â–ª in hartes delight Shall offer giftes in worship frée As conquest day of thy great might In shinyng shew of sanctitie For why the dew of thy swete birth As morne new sprong dropth ioyfull mirth So séene on earth 4 The Lord did sweare and fast decréed He will hys worde no tyme repent Which sayd thou art a priest in déed A kingly priest aye permanent Of order namde Melchisedeck Whom peace and right â–ª doth ioyntly decke As Gods elect 5 The Lord as shield kepth right thy hand To make thy raigne inuincible He shall subdue by sea and land All power aduerse most forcible He shall great kyngs and Cesars wound In day of
fame For euer prayse and magnifie His blessed holy name Rectors O Angels hie of God The Lord your ornament Ye heauens so clere waters eke Aboue the firmament Quire * Prayse ye the kyng of kynges Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnifie Hys blessed holy name Rectors O all ye powers of God Ye sunne and moone also Ye starres of heauens ye showres dewes The Lordes rough wyndes that blow Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kynges Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse â–ª and magnifie Hys blessed holy name Rectors O fyre and partching heate Ye winters Sommers all Ye dewes and frostes ye frostes and cold Ye snowes and Yse that fal Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kynges Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnifie Hys blessed holy name Rectors O nights and dayes so bright Ye lights and darkenes dimme Ye lightnings cloudes and earth so round Extoll and laude ye him Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kynges Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnifie His blessed holy name Rectors O hils and mountaynes great Grene thyngs on earth that growe Ye wels and springs ye Seas and flouds And Whales in deepes by low Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kynges Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnifie Hys blessed holy name Rectors O all ye fethred foules Ye beasts and herds abroade O ye the sonnes of mortall men O Israell prayse the Lord. Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kings Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnify his blessed holy name Rectors O priests of God aboue And seruants true of hys Ye sprites and soules of righteous men Extoll the Lord of blisse Quiere * Prayse ye the kyng of kings Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnify His blessed holy name Rectors O men of hart so meeke And holy soules in mynde O Anani and Azari And Miâ—aell so kynde Quiere * Prayse ye the king of kings Blesse ye the Lord of fame For euer prayse and magnify His blessed holy name Benedictus O Blest be God of Israell The Lorde guide we know full well He visited hys people all He them by grace redéemd from thrall And raisde he hath saluation Most mighty now for vs eche one Of Dauids stocke so vertuous His seruauntes line and noble house As he dyd speake in tymes of olde By holy Prophetes mouthes so tolde Which were his will to vtter than And haue bene since the world began That we should be in fréedome quite And saued be from enmies spite To scape the handes and cruell state Of all the men that vs do hate The mercy plight to fathers sage To them performe from age to age And eke recount hys noble acte To call to minde hys sacred pacte His othe to kepe so sworne and plight To Abraham our fathers right Which he in tyme so bounteous Would iust performe and geue to vs. That we so rid from enmies handes From cruell yoke of combrous bandes Myght serue hym styll in ioyfull cheare Without all griefe all care and feare In holines and righteousnes So hym to serue in stablenes Before hym thus all voyde of strife To passe all dayes of this our life And thou good child shalt haue the name Of Prophet great most chiefe in fame For thou shalt go before Gods face To shew before hys wayes of grace To geue vnto his people sone To knowledge healthes â–ª saluation This health to shew the grace of his For all theyr faultes and sinnes remisse Through mercy great and tender loue Of God the Lord that raignes aboue Wherby the day that spring from hie Us visited so ioyfully Them lyght to geue that placed bée In darkenes great and miserie And eke in shade of death no lesse And guide our féete in wâ—yâ—s of peace ¶ Magnificat MY soule the Lord doth magnifie Who shewth his power so mightely Thus hath he done â–ª by his gret might Of onely grace that he hath plight Also my sprite both day and hower Reioyceth in God my sauiour Not me my selfe but thée O Lord I do extoll in hartes accord For he hath thus regarded mée His handmayd true of low degrée Whose poore estate and simple house He doth accept so bounteous And now behold the kyndreds all Shall me henceforth right blessed call So thou hast sayd by thy good worde As aungels voyce doth well recorde For he that is most mighty tride Hath me set vp and magnified By his good grace he doth the same For holy is his worthy name And mercy great that he doth beare Is shewd to all that do hym feare On kinredes all by him alone He helpes vs now and hearth our mone Wyth hys good arme he strength hath shewd And scattred cleane the proud and lewd In their conceiptes â–ª and fansies vayne This is our God that still doth raigne The mighty downe from seat he threw And humble hartes exalted due Thus God hath done by power so hie The worldly riche full low do lie The hungry soule he filde in all Wyth eche good thyng so liberall The riche in wealth wyth all their ray With empty handes he sent away Remembring still hys grace that fell Hys seruaunt holye good Israell Which promisd was our fathers gray And Abraham hys séede for aye Nunc dimittis LOrd now thou lettest thy seruant go To peacefull rest thou good art so Thy loue to me thou doost aforde Accordth thereto thy holy word For these my eyes saw happely Health long desird so ernestly Thy sauing health thou geuest alone My eyes haue seene saluation Which thou hast thus preparde aright Before thy flock and peoples sight Theyr eyes do sée thy loues entent And goodnes great which thou hast sent To be a light to Gentels all To lighten them that lye in thrall That thy good flock in ioy may dwell To glory great of Israell Grace before meate MOst louing Lord to thee we cry All vs to blesse our borde be nye Thy giftes to vse in this repast No spoyle to make hereof in waste And that our want while we do â—yll Our hart and tong expresse none euell Grace after meate PReserue vs Lord which all hast wrought As thou of loue vs all hast bought Refresh our soules with godly feare For these good giftes kind hart to beare Our tyme to spend ech day by day At our liues ende reioyce we may Quicunque vult WHo saued will be before all thinges He must true fayth fast hold in all which safe sound who kepth it not Without all doubt he perish shall This is the fayth calde Catholike Euen through the world full out so famde To serue one god in Trinitie In Trinitie but one so namde Confounding not theyr persons three Their substance sundred cannot be The father sonne and holy goste Be diuers yet in persons three The godhed yet of them all one Of father sonne and
holy Sprite Theyr glory lyke their maiesty All one eternall is aright The father such the sonne is such The holy gost is such a lyke The father hie the sonne euen so The holy gost vncreat eke The father god the sonne the sprite Incomprehensible they be all â–ª Eternall god eternall sonne The holy goste eterne we call Yet they not three eternals be But one they stande eternally Not three distinct in power or tyme But one all whole in vnitie The father houge of power he is The sonne the holy ghost euen so Not thrée almighties so be sayde But one almighty knowne no mo The father God the sonne is God The holy ghost euen so is God Not yet three Gods but one is God In all the world so long and broade The Father Lord the Son is Lord The holly Ghost is truely Lorde Not yet thrée Lords but one is Lord We say and singe in true accord As we ech person God and Lord Be bid by Christian truth to name Forbidden so we be by fayth thrée gods or els thrée lords to frame The Father made of none nor born Of none begotten well we know The sonne of God alone not made Nor created begotten thoughe The sprite is iust of God and so Of Christ not got proceding yet One Father so one son one sprite Not thrise in name these persons set In Trinity â–ª not one beforne Nor yet behynde more great or lesse These persons thrée all equall be Eterne a like we must confesse So that in all this vnity In trinity I say agayne The trinity in vnity We must adore as one full playne Who saued will be most rightly iuge The Trinity forsooth euen thus And helth eke aske to think the Christe Incarnate was made flesh for vs. For this is fayth both right sounde That we beleue and iust confesse That Iesus Christ the sonne of God Is God and man our Lorde no lesse Of God his substaunce God begot Before the worlde was made in sight And man he is of Maryes flesh His mother him in world so dight He perfect God and perfect man Of soule with reason most indued Of humayne flesh subsistyng is By whome our nature was renued Christ equall is in Deity To God so great his father iust Yet greater he and Christ the lesse For birth in manhoode so discust Who though he be both God man One Christ he is in déede not two To â—lesh his godhed did not chaunge But taking flesh on godhed so Of substance whole he is vnmixte By person yet he is but one As soule wyth wit and flesh one man One Christ is so both God and man Who suffred death for all our health And downe he went in sprite to Hel He did yet ryse from death agayne The thyrd day iust as scripture telth To Heuen he â—â—ied and there he sitth On gods right hand which mighty is from whence he shall return to iudge The quick and deade all right I wis And when he comth all men shal ryse In bodies dead reuiued agayne And geue they shall accompt full due of al their thoughts works so plain And they that haue done good I saye Shall enter sure to life eterne And they that haue done euill to fyre To darknes cast that is externe This is the fayth most Catholike Which any man if it mistake And faythfully doth not beleue No wight him saued once can make Veni creator COme holy Ghost eternall God Which doost from God procéede The father fyrst and eke the sonne One God as we do reade Oh visite thou our minds and harts Thy heauenly grace inspire That we in truth and godlinesse May set our whole desire Thou art O sprite the comforter In woe and hard distresse The heauenly gift of God so highe Which tongue cannot expresse Thou fountayne art and liuely spring Of ioy celestiall The fyre so bright the loue so cleare and vnction spirituall For thou in gifts art manifold Whereby Christs church doth stand And wrightst thy loue in faythfull hartes The power of God hys hand And like as thou hast promise made Thou geuest the speach of grace That through thy helpe the prayse of God May sound in euery place O holy Ghost to moue our wits Sende downe thyne heauenly light Inflame our harts our God to serue With loue both day and night Our weaknes strength confyrme vs Lord Both féeble faynt and frayle That nether flesh the world ne deuill In vs do once preuayle Put backe from vs our enemies And graunt that wée obtayne Swéete peace of hart with God and man From grudge and proude disdayne And graunt O Lord O leader sure That we by thée as guide May safe eschue the snares of sinne From thée no tyme to slyde And plenty Lord of thy good grace Graunt vs we humble pray Be thou our ioy and comforter To scape that dreadfull day Of stryfe and foule dissention O Lord dissolue the bands And knit the knot of peace and loue Through out all Christen lands Graunt vs O Lord through thée to know The Father most of might That we of his beloued sonne May sure obtayne the sight And that with perfect stable fayth We mought acknowledge thée The sprite of them â–ª of both I say One God and persons thrée Be laude to God the father hye And God his sonne prayse ye Be prayse to God the holy sprite One God in Trinity Pray we that Christ the sauiour Uouchsafe his sprite to send To all which true professe his name Till all the world doth ende THe 150. beyng the last Psalme is a serious and earnest inuitation to the prayses of God and so most agreably placed as last to knit vp the ende of all that is treated in the fiue seueral bookes of Psalmes so deuided by the Hebrues In whiche fiue bookes bee insparsed abroad matter of Prophecy of Christ and hys church of History of Doctrine of Instruction of Inuitation of Exhortation of Reformation of Insultation of Consolation of Gloriation of Inuocation of Obsecration of Meditation of Patience and such lyke So that all breath voyce and sound of worde sunge sayd or thoughte should tende wholy in the ende to prayse the Lorde whych is the first the mydst and finall worke and sacrifice wherunto all should be referred Furthermore because in rhe thyrd fourth and fifth verses onelye musicall instrumentes be recyted lest they should be but bare instrumentes wythout distinction or signification of sound in them be added for supplement the three appropriates ascribed to God in Trinitie as Power and Authoritie whereby all thynges were created and wrought Wysdome and Prouidence wherby all thynges be iustly gouerned and ruled Goodnes and Bountie wherby all thinges be preserued from whence procede all graces and giftes both bodely and ghostly Thus this Psalme whych is the last beyng conformable to that whych is the first which is also tracted by certayne Triades describyng the felicitye of man doth resemble the same
styld none haue release Suppresse me not 8 Full weake I lye deiect in stresse I roard on hye In carefulnes My hart ye spye remedylesse Oppresse me not 9 O Lord thou spiest what would I fayne And thou aduisest my gronyng payne Yet me denyest to helpe agayne Represse me not 10 My hart doth pant ah wofull wight My strength is scant and all my might Myne eyes do want their sence and light Bewound me not 11 My louyng frendes from me they flée Wyth careles myndes my griefes they sée My kinne them wyndes full far fro me Confound me not 12 My foes which sought my lyfe to spill Close snares they wrought to catch me euil They talkt of nought to trap me still Beshame me not 13 I yet kept me as deafe I were As dumme to sée in tong and eare Theyr scornes at eye I dyd them beare Defame me not 14 As one I say wythout an eare My mouth all day I dyd not stere No checkes I lay to all thys geare Deface me not 15 For Lord in thée I had my trust My God most frée thou art so iust And thou for mée still aunswer must Disgrace me not 16 As thée my guide I prayd in voyce That they to wyde should not reioyce To sée me slide to fall in choyce Abase me not 17 For sinnefull det such plages to beare In dolour great it made me feare My hart is fret to féele them neare Detrude me not 18 I wyll confesse my wyckednes My sinnes excesse in heauines O Lord my stresse the more redresse Exclude me not 19 My foes be strong they lyue at ease They hate me wrong they do not cease By heapes in throng on me they prease Detect me not 20 Who dyd requyte my good wyth euill They dyd me spyte they would me spill For that the ryght I did fulfill Deiect me not 21 Thou séest my state forsake me not To theyr great hate betake me not Lord God to late awake thou not Forsake me not 22 My Lord of wealth oh tary not From thée thy selfe oh vary not That I in health miscary not My Lord my God O tary not Oh tary not ¶ The Collecte SEnd out Lord thy sauing health vpon our infirmities eueÌ„ thou that art moste louing Phisition to all our woundes and sores and graunt that we may bewayle to thee all our sorrow and heauines in true repentaunt hartes and that we may bee able to subdue all the assaultes of sinne Through Christ. ¶ The Argument Psalme XXXIX Whan Dauid sawe the world so bad Gods men for â—â—ruth to scorne To God in hart complaynt he had â–ª his â—onge in sileâ—â—e borne 1 I Full decreed my wayes to wayte least I in tong myght erre To stop my mouth with mosell strayt nye me while sinners were 2 By silence long euen dom I was from truth I helde my peace It fret me sore good thinges to passe my griefes so dyd not cease 3 My hart within was set on heate thus musing fire it tooke My tong brake out some thyng to treate then silence I forsooke 4 Tell me myne ende O Lord I sayd what number haue my dayes That I may know how long dismayd I here shal lyue in frayes 5 My dayes lo thou at fyngers hast a span in brede they bee My life to thee as nought is cast lyues man whole vanitie 6 In shadow darke mans walke is set in broyle he â—â—yleth in vayne He heapth and heapth and knowth not yet who reape shall all hys payne 7 Now theÌ„ O Lord what loke I for while men thus earth do wrote My hope no dout thou art in store thou art my health and bote 8 To scape thy rod deliuer me from myne offences quite And make me not a scorne to be to men of folishe spite 9 Lord dom I layd in patience not once my mouth to ope For this thou dydst by prouidence to proue my fayth and hope 10 Remoue thy scourge from me to flye by sinne I know deserued Thy hand so smart hath spent me nye be I yet Lord preserued 11 For when for sinne thou scourgest man by plages down sent fro the As cloth by mothe hys soule doth wan all men then britle be 12 Heare Lord my sute and harke my cry not deafely heare my teares For Pilgrim strange with thee I lye as were my fathers yeares 13 O spare me then that I my strength recouer may therfore Before I go from hence at length and after seene no more ¶ The Collecte KEepe thou our way O heauenly father that we offende not in our tonge so that we may be kindled wyth the ghostly flames of vertuous meditations that we heape vp such treasures in thys mortal lyfe to reape the glory of lyfe immortall in the perfect fruition of thy glorious maiestie through Christ. The Argument Psalme XXXIX King Dauid prayed as dumme to go before his cruell fo To scape from his wo of sinne to be quyte And fayth that man is vanitie right Euen mere vayne vanitie light Vayne vanitie light 1 I Haue decréed to wayte my wayes lest tong should faute by strayes My mouth will I kepe with bridle to tye While that I know my foe to be bye While he in vanitie lygheth In vanitie lygheth 2 I held my tong A nothyng sayd In silence domme I layde So lothe to reply although to my payne Great griefe I felt â–ª good worde to restrayne In world such vanitie raignth Such vanitie raignth 3 But musing thus I was in heat My hart did sore me freat For fire the payne prouoked me much At last I spake wyth murmuryng grutch I saw the vanitie such The vanitie such 4 Lord let me know myne ende of dayes the number how it layes So truely to touche the certeintie yet How long shall nature respite her det To wayle my vanitie great My vanitie great 5 As span thou metst the dayes of myne And nought they be to thyne In breuitie set all wrapped in feare Good hap so far great magre so neare Man is but vanitie here But vanitie here 6 In shadow darke man toylth wyth payne and vexth himselfe in vayne So gather he deare goods carefully kept He knowth not yet by whome to be rept So déepe in vanitie stept In vanitie stept 7 And now O Lord what is my hope where men thus blyndly grope Thou truly my scope art onely to sée For man we know but shadow to bée Whole set in vanitie he In vanitie he 8 O ryd me Lord that am so thrall from myne offences all That neuer I fall as mocke and a scorne Of wycked men wyth téeth to be torne Who be in vanitie borne In vanitie borne 9 And doâ—â—ne I went in all my payne In mouth I dyd not playne I mynded agayne thy doyng among Thou wylt the iust to suffer a wrong Of man in vanitie strong In vanitie strong 10 This plage for sinne yet take away O Lord to thée I pray For wasted I lay
the father c. ¶ The Argument Psalme C. All men of breath but temporall Which Pilgrimes walke this earthly Ball To ioy be bid here seuerall To God in dayes most festiuall 1 O Ioy all men terrestriall Reioyce in God celestiall I byd not Iewes especiall But Iewes and Gréekes in generall 2 Serue ye thys Lord heroicall Wyth ioy of hart effectuall Seke ye hys sight potentiall Wyth hymnes of myrth most musicall 3 Know ye thys Lord imperiall As God vs made originall Not we our selues he vs doth call Hys folke as flocke kept pastorall 4 Hys gates and courtes tread vsuall Wyth laudes and hymnes poeticall Geue thankes to hym continuall And blesse his name most liberall 5 For why this Lord so principall Is swéete hys grace perpetuall Hys truth of word stand euer shall With hundreth thankes thus ende we all ¶ The Collecte O Lord and father of all honor glory shew vs thy mercy and graunt thy grace that we may spiritually reioyce in the laude of thy name and so in spryte to serue thee that we maye feele in our hartes the delectable comfortes of thy true promises made to vs the poore flocke of thy pasture so to ioyne to thee our louyng pastor to come at the last to thy heauenly folde where thou raignest with the father and holy ghost one God c. ¶ The ende of the second Quinquagene ¶ The third and last Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter translated into Englishe Metre The Argument Psalme CI. When Dauid long was kept from raigne This Psalme he sang to ease his payne â–ª How kinges should rule here see you playne â–ª As he would fayne Ì„Ì„ 1 BOth mercy méeke iudgement right In Metres song I wyll endight To thée I will Lord sing in sight With hartes delyte 2 I wyll my lyfe beare strayt in way If thou from me goest not astray In all my house cleane hart shall lay Without denay â–ª 3 To wycked déede none eye shall stand And hate I wyll all rebels band To ioyne wyth me I wyll wythstand wyth hart and hand 4 A froward hart and wilfull 〈◊〉 From my whole sight shall flée full out To me shall clout no wycked rout Wythout all doâ—t 5 Hys neyghbour who â–ª styâ—â—th priuily â–ª Hym will Astrâ—y 〈◊〉 vtterly â–ª I will not 〈◊〉 proud 〈…〉 Wyth pleasure hye 6 True men in earth I wyll me get Most nye to eye wyth me to seâ— Who walketh more strayt shall serue me bet Wythout all let 7 From far my house they shal be sent Who guiles can forge or lyes inuent None eye on them shall firme be bent Wyth myne assent 8 Yea soone by day I will deface Proud men in earth of wycked trace To dryue all shrewes from Gods good place Wythout all grace ¶ The Collecte ALmightye God which art God of power incomprehensible which shewest to thy seruants ioyntly both mercy and iudgement Graunte we beseche thee so that we may faithfully loue thee truly to follow thee in all godlines through Christ c. ¶ The Argument Psalme CII Here man in eare most pituously Wishth Syon built defast in shame He moâ—eth hys longâ— captiuitie Christes heauenly church wishe we the same \ \ 1 O Lord to thée I cry and call My prayer heare O louinglye Thou art my Lord most liberall Receyue my sute admyt my cry 2 While thus I mourne hide not thy face From my distresse so wrathfully Enclyne thyne eares and heare my case But soone in hast O aunswer make 3 My dayes lyke smoke slyde fast apace Consume they do no rest they take As fier brandes my bones are brent Theyr liuely powers my sprites forsake 4 My wounded hart lyeth impotent As witherd hay cut downe by sithe To eate my bread from me it went On me so sore this trouble lyeth 5 For gronyng lowde in thys distresse My wofull hart oh panth and sith That scant to skin cleaneth any flesh My bones be sene thus wast I lay 6 Lyke Pellicane in wildernesse I am which sing but we le away As Owle that fléeth all birdes in sight In desert darke which loueth to stray 7 Full watch I kepe both day and night Myne eyes no slepe can take for mone To Sparow like that leaueth her flight â–ª In houses eues which lowerth alone 8 All day my foes do me reuyle Wyth tauntes they sport when I do grone These boasters mad at me so vyle Agaynst my soule all sworne they bée 9 My bread that I eate all this whyle Was ashes lyke in taste to sée My drinke with teares with weping menkct So many griefes afflicted mée 10 My soule with cares was full besprenct To note thy wrath and heauy frowne Thou liftst me vp as I were strengâ—hd But sone most weake thou threwst me down 11 My dayes draw low â–ª as shadow falth When darke comthâ—â— in field and towne I wyther like as blosome paâ—h My colour wanneth my moysture dryeth 12 But thou yet Lord as thée befalth Art permanent no man denieth Thy memory shall aye remayne Where fast to duâ—t my nature hyeth 13 I know thou wylt once ryse agayne To pitie Lord swete Syon mount To shew hys grace the tyme constraynth The tyme is come by iust account 14 Thy seruants lo desire in hart To sée her stones to building mount They pitie her to spie her smart To marke her thus in dust oppresâ— 15 The Gentils straunge wyl ioyne their part To feare Gods name of all the best Ye kings of power in earth all whole Shall prayse thy name for worthiest 16 When this the Lord shall hye extoll In buildinges fresh this Zyon place And her in booke of fame enroll When glory bryght shall her embrace 17 And when they sée how he is bent To poore mans sute in tender grace And will not be ought discontent To scorne theyr cryes both all and some 18 This thyng thus done â–ª as monument Shall written be for folke to come That countries whole which shall arise May laud thys Lord wyth hye renome 19 For God from hye hath cast his eyes Where holy is his sacrary Thys Lord from heauen in gentle wise Hath lookt to earth to heare the cry 20 To heare I say the wofull playntes Of men fast bound in misery To losen them from theyr constrayntes Which were at deathes dore very neare 21 That they might shew â–ª to all hys saintes In Zyon place Gods name so deare To tell all out Ierusalem His worthy laudes in open quere 22 When people whole shall mete in realme Of all estates which this shall know To serue this God so good to them All reignes to hym shall them bestow 23 Though God as yet my strength hath beate From captine state to iourney slow Though he my dayes hath short extreat I Zyon trust yet built to spy 24 I wyll hym thus wyth wordes intreat Ah God my God to wastefully Cut not my dayes by halfe away Where thy yeares last â–ª eternally
of hym to stand Which turnth moist soyle to wildernes dryeth vp springs to land 34 A fruitefull earth he makth as salt and barren ground The dwellers sinnes be cause therof where in their liues be found 35 So he the desert makth to flow wyth water springes And soyle most dry from barennes by runnyng brookes he bringes 36 And there he setth to dwell all hungry nedefull men To build themselfe a city strong as Forte therto to renne 37 And there the fieldes they sowe and vineyardes large they plant Swéete frutes to beare of yeres increase to féede their néede want 38 All them he blessth wyth store they then increase most hye And suffreth not theyr cattell once to droupe or yet to dye 39 But when they fall to sinne he them decayth agayne By cruell powers he bringth them low with cares opprest payne ¶ The Rectors 40 When thus afflict they feele decay By Princes great abuse Though out of way a tyme they stray At last he them reduce 41 For he the poore returnd by smart Doth rayse from misery His householdes yet he makth in part As flockes of sheepe to ligh ¶ The Quiere God graunt that they would prayse hartely then The Lorde for hys grace so to sing in their quiere The wonders he doth for the chylder of men Whose mercy so neare to them did appeare 42 That tymely they may this ponder aryght As righteous man in his duety so glad Is prest to reioyce wyth a godly delyte Where mouth of the bad shall dumly be sad The conclusion Mans hart that is wise these things wil aduise Pure thankes to procure â–ª to hys God for his cure And thus hys deuise may he iustly comprise Ryght oft is hys vre by loue to allure Kynde mercy so sure in hym doth endure Extoll hym I say both by night and by day Ren neuer astray from his mercifull way ¶ The Collecte WE do acknowledge O Lord thy manifolde mercies which thou doost daily bestow vppon our miserable necessities beseching thee as thou sittest in heauen on the ryght hand of thy father in throne of equall glory with him that we may worthely coÌ„ceiue and vnderstand this great mystery of thy inestimable mercies duely to laude the same to the glorye of thy name who with the father and the holy gost art worthy all prayse Amen ¶ Certayne verses of the sayd Psalme otherwise translated 6 When thus they cryed to God thus set in woes excesse Ryght soone he dyd deliuer them from all theyr hard distresse 7 For he led them the way both ryght and prosperous Wherby they did a citie fynde to dwell commodious 8 O that men would then prayse the Lordes benignitie To tell what actes ful strange he doth to mans posteritie 9 For that he doth refresh the soule in thyrst so dry And filleth the soule that hungry is wyth goodnes largely 13 When thus they cryed to God thus set in woes excesse Ryght soone he dyd deliuer them from all theyr hard distresse 14 For he then brought them forth from darke and dedly shade He brake theyr bondes and fetters strong to fréedom sure to wade 15 O that men would then prayse the Lordes benignitie To tell what actes ful strange he doth to mans posteritie 16 For he the gates of brasse hath all to shiuers broke And burst the barres a sunder quite in yron forgd by stroke 19 When thus they cryed to God thus set in woes excesse Ryght soone he dyd deliuer them from all theyr hard distresse 20 For he then sent hys worde he them restord by might Wherby they scapte destruction from peryll saued quite 21 O that men would then prayse the Lordes benignitie To tell what actes ful strange he doth to mans posteritie 22 That they would offer hym of thankes the sacrifice And full tell out hys workes so great in glad and thankfull wyfe 28 When thus they cryed to God thus set in woes excesse Ryght soone he dyd deliuer them from all theyr hard distresse 29 For he dryueth down the stormes and makth them soone to cease So that the waues be still agayne wherby they winne release 30 Then are they glad at hart because at rest they bée He bringth them thus to that theyr hauen which they so glad wold sée 31 O that men would then prayse the Lordes benignitie To tell what actes ful strange he doth to mans posteritie 32 That they would hym exalt when people most be met And prayse hym due where Elders bée together ioyntly set 40 Though he doth beare a whyle that tyrantes them oppresse And suffer them to go astray in wandryng wyldernesse 41 Yet he doth helpe the poore from hys great misery Hys householdes yet he makth in part as flockes of shepe to lye 42 The righteous man wyll this expend and eke reioyce Where that the mouth of wickednes shall whole be stopt in voyce 43 Who that is wyse I say will ponder all these thynges They shall so know what mercies frée the Lord in sorow bringes ¶ The Argument Psalme CVIII When Dauid kept Odollan caue Where Saule he scapte for all hys raue Thus thankes in song he dyd extende To God who did hys lyfe defende 1 MY hart to God is ready found Thy worthy laudes deuout to sound For sing I will and Psalmes recorde With glory due in tong and worde 2 Lyft vp thy selfe thou Psaltrye swéete Thou harpe euen so with tunes most méete For I my selfe will early ryse Newe songes to sing I wyll deuise 3 I thée wyll prayse O Lord in songe In peoples sight euen them among Yea Psalmes to thée I wyll arrect Among all folke of euery sect 4 For farre aboue the heauen we sée Standth firmly thy benignytie Thy fayth and truth as proufe doth teache Most nye the cloudes doth wholy reach 5 Be thou exalt O God on hye Aboue the heauens in maiestye Aboue all earth thy glory set That men may know thy power so great 6 That thy beloued from wretchednes Whole rydde may be in stablenesse Let thy right hand than vs preserue O aunswere me my turne to serue 7 God spake his word in holynes Wherein I ioy and shall no lesse All Sychem iust in partes I set And Sucoth vale I also met 8 All myne no doubt is Gilead And so is myne Manasses had And Ephraim my reigne the strength And Iuda is my guyde at length 9 Land Moab is my water pot And Idumye my conquerd lot Wheron my sho extend I wyll On Philistyne ioy shall I still 10 Who hath me brought to be so nye â–ª That cytye great â–ª so walled hye Who led me forth so iust to come To Idâ—mye to wynne renome 11 Was it not thou I say O God Which vs forsokst cast wyde abroade Which didst not walke as God with vs With our mayne hostes victorious 12 O geue vs helpe and that at hand Of all our griefe of troubles band For weake the helpe