The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

The third parte.

Euen Ioseph which had once ben solde to liue a slaue in woe: Whose feete they hurt in stocks, whose soule, the iron pearst also. Untill the tyme came when his cause, was knowne apparantly, The mighty word of God the Lord, his faultles truth did trye.

The king sent and deliuerd him, from prison where he was:

The ruler of the people then, did freely let hym pas: And ouer all hys house he made, him Lorde to beare the swey, and of his substance made him haue, the rule and all the stay,

That he might to his will instruct the princes of his land, And wisdomes lore his auncyent men, might teache to vnderstand. Then into the Egiptian land, came Israell also: And Iacob in the land of Ham, did liue a straunger thoo.

His people he excedingly, in number made to flowe: And ouer all their enemies, in strength he made them growe. whose hart he turnd, that they with hate his people did entreate: And did his seruantes wrongfully, Abuse with false deceite.

His faithfull seruant Moses then. and Aaron whom he chose, He did commaund to goe to them, his message to disclose. The wondrous message of his signes, among them they did shewe: And wonders in the land of Ham, then did they worke also.

Darknes he sent, and made it darke, in dede of brighter day, And vnto his commission they did not disobey. He turnd theyr waters into bloud, he did their fishes slay: Their land brought frogs, euē in y^t place where their king Pharao lay.

He spake and at his voyce there came, great swarmes of noysome flyes, And all the quarters of theyr land, were filld with crauling lyse. He gaue them colde and stony hayle, in stede of milder rayne: And firy flames within theyr land, he sent vnto theyr payne.

He smote their vines, and al theyr trees wheron their figges did growe, And all the trees within their coastes, downe did he ouerthrowe, He spake: then caterpillers did, and greshoppers abound, Which eate the grasse in all their land and frute of all their ground.