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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.

"Consydrynge well, most godly Kyng

"The zeale and perfecte love

"Your Grace doth beare to eche good thyng

"That geven is from above." &c.

The text, with music for four voices, Meane, Tenour, Countertenor, Bassus :

1.

"In the former Treatyse to thee

"Dere frend The o phi lus

"I have written the verite

"Of the Lord Christ Jesus.

2.

"Whiche he to do and eke to teache

"Began until the daye

"In whiche the Sprite up hym did feache
"To dwell above for aye."

The concluding stanza (of chapter xivth and last) is thus:
"Howe he the doore of fayth untyde

"The Gentyls in to call

"And there longe tyme they dyd abyde
"With the disciples all."

Imprynted at London by Nycolas Hyll for Wyllyam Seres. "Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum." The volume contains only the first fourteen chapters; it is printed in black letter. Signatures A―N. in eights.

N. B. In the Public Library at Cambridge there is a copy which differs from the above. It has no date: its colophon is, "Imprinted at London, in Poules Churchyarde at the signe of the "Hedgehogge, by Wyllyam Seres. Cum privilegio &c." It is printed in black letter; its pages are unnumbered. Signatures in eights, A-H viii. A full page contains six stanzas, 24 lines. The running titles are in Roman; the contents of each chapter, in small Itatics.

TRANSLATIONS OF THE PSALMS.

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APPENDIX E.

TRANSLATIONS OF THE PSALMS.

1.—The Psalter, from M. Bucer. 1530. 24°.

Psalm xix.

The hevens declare the maieste of God: and ye firmament sheweth what are his workes.

On daye succeding a nother whetteth continually owre thoughtis & on nyghte folowing a nother encresethe owre knowledge.

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Theis creatures have nether speche nor wordes: nether is their voices eny where harde.

And yet their poyntyng and shewyng hath taught all the worlde: & their dumme speche hath gone forth into all ye costes of ye worlde.

He hath fastened in them a tabernacle for the sonne: this sonne cometh forth of his cloudes lyke a brydegrome, ye lyke a fresshe valiaunt knighte to make his course.

Frome ye farthest easte parte of ye hevens cometh he forthe: havynge his recourse unto the other extreme: nether is their eny mane that maye hyde hym frome his heate.

N. B. In Psalm iii the following explanation of the word Selah occurs in the shape of a note: "This worde Selah signifieth ye "sentence before to be pondred with a depe affecte, longe to be "rested upō and the voyce there to be exalted."

2.-The Psalter, by George Joye. 1534. 24°.

The hevens declare the almightye majestye off god, and the firmament sheweth forth the worke of his handis.

Every day precheth the same: every night layeth forth the same also unto our knowlege.

There is nether speche nor tōgue but amonge them are the voyces of these al herde.

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Into al the worlde goeth forth the speche of them, and their wordis unto the worldis ende.

He hath set in them a tabernacle for the sonne: whece he procedeth like a bridegrome out of his chabre, and like a geaunt he dresseth him selfe to peruse his coursse.

Frome the one syde of the hevens he goth forth myghtely to the tother: and there is noman that maye hyde him from his heat.

3.-Psalm xxii. by M. Coverdale.

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1. The Lord is my Shepherd: I shall lack 2. He feedeth me in a green pasture, and leadeth me to theb fresh

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3. He quickeneth my soul, and bringeth me forth in the way of righteousness for his name's sake.

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4. And though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, yet fear I no evil: for thou art with me: thy staff, thy sheep-hook do f comfort me.

5. Thou preparest a table before me against mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, and fillest my cup full.

6. Oh let thy lovingkindness and mercy follow me all the days of my life, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

N. B. The readings below are from the Bible of 1535.

4.-Goostly Psalms, by Myles Coverdale. (1539.) 4°.

Yee above all myrth and pastaunce
Hierusalem I preferre the
Lorde call to thy remembraunce

The sonnes of Edom ryght strately

In the daye of the destruccion

which at Hierusalem was done

for they sayd in theyr cruelnes

Downe with it, downe with it, destroye it all
Downe with it soone, that it may fall
Laye it to the grounde all that there is.

5.

O thou cite of Babilon

Thou thyselfe shalt be destroyed

Truly blessed shalbe that man

which even as thou hast deserved

Shall rewarde the with soch kyndnesse
As thou hast shewed to us gyltlesse
which never had offended the
Blessed shall he be that for the nones

Shall throwe thy chyldren agaynst the stones
To brynge the out of memorie.

5.-Psalm xiv. by Princess Elizabeth. 1548. 12o.
Fooles that true fayth, yet never hod,
Sayth in their hartes, There is no God.
Fylthy they are, in their practyse,
Of them not one, is godly wyse.

From heaven the lorde, on man ded loke,
The knowe what wayes, he undertoke,

All they were vayne. and went a straye,
Not one he founde, in the ryght waye,

In harte and tunge, have they deceyte,
Their lyppes throwe fourth, a poysened beyte.
Their myndes are mad, their mouthes are wode.
And swyft they be, in shedynge blode.

So blynde they are, no truth they knowe,
No feare of God, in them wyll growe.

How can that cruell sort be good?

Of Gods dere folcke, whych sucke the blood?
On hym ryghtly, shall they not call.
Dyspayre wyll so, their hartes appall.
At all tymes God. is with the iust
Bycause they put, in hym their trust.
Who shall therfor, from Syon geve,
That helthe whych hägeth, in our beleve?
Whan God shall take, frō hys the smart,
Than wyll Jacob, reioyce in hart.

Prayse to God.

6.-The Penitential Psalms, by Sir Thos. Wyatt. 1549. 12°.

Ps. li.

Rue on me Lord, for thy goodnes and grace

That of thy nature, arte so bountifull