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.

And in the land of Ham for them. most wondrous works had done And by the red sea dredfull things performed long agone. Therfore for their so shewing them, forgetfull and vnkind, To bring destruction on them all he purposde in his minde.

Had not his chosen Moses stoode, before them in the breake: To turne his wrath, lest he on them, with slaughter should him wreke. They did despise the pleasant land, that he beheght to geue: Yea and the workes that he had spoke, they did no whit beleue:

But in their tents with grudging hart, they wickedly repined, Nor to the voyce of God the Lorde, they gaue a harkning mynde, Therfore against them lifted he, his strong reuenging hand, Them to destroy in wildernes, ere they should see the land.

And to destroy theyr sede among the nations with his rod, And through the contrees of the world to scatter them abrode. To Baal Peor then they did, adioyne themselues also,

And eate the offringes of the dead so they forsoke him tho.

Thus with theyr owne inuentions, his wrath they did prouoke, And in his so inkindled wrath, the plage vpon them broke. But Phineas stoode vp with zeale, the sinners vile to stay, And iudgement he did execute, and then the plage did stay,