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. iiii. parte.

It was imputed vnto him. for righteousnes that day, And from thenceforth so compted is from race to race foraye. At waters eke of Meribah, they did him angry make, Yea so far fourth that Moses was then punisht for theyr sake,

Because they vext his sprite so sore, that in impatient heate His lippes spake vnaduisedly, his feruor was so greate, Nor as the Lorde commaunded them. they slew the people thoe, But were among the heathen mixt, and learnde their workes also,

And did their idoles serue, whiche were their ruine and decay, To feends their sonnes & daughters they did offer vp and slay.

yea with vnkindly murdring knife, the giltles bloud they spilt, yea theyr owne sons & daughters bloud without all cause of gilt,

Whom they to Canaan idoles then, offerd with wicked hand, And so with blood of innocents, defyled was the land. Thus wer they stayned with the works of their owne filthy way, And with their owne inuentions, a whoring did they stray.

Therfore against his people was the Lordes wrath kind led sore, And euen his owne in heritance therfore he did abhorre. Into the handes of heathen men, he gaue them for a prey: And made theyr foes the lords whō they were forced to obey.