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.

¶ Lauda anima mea. Psalm. cxlvi. I. H

¶ Dauid shewing the great desire he had to prayse God, teacheth that none should put theyr trust in men, but in God alone: who is almigh¦tye and deliuereth thafflicted nourisheth the poore, setteth prisoners at lybertie, comforteth the fatherles, widowes, and the straungers, and raygneth kinge for euer.

My soule prayse thou the Lord alwayes, My God I will confes: * 1.1 Whyle death and lyfe prolong my dayes, my tonge no tyme shall cease. [verse 3] Trust not in worldly princes then, though they abound in wealth: Nor in the sonnes of mortall men, in whom there is no health.

[verse 4] For why theyr breath doth sone depart to earth anone they fall: And then the counsels of their hart, decay and pearysh all. [verse 5] O happy is that man, I say, whom Iacobs God doth ayde: And he whose hope doth not decay, but on the lorde is stayd.

[verse 6] Whiche made the earth & waters depe, the heauens hie with all: Which doth his word and promise kepe In truth and euer shall. [verse 7] With right alwayes doth he procede, for suche as suffer wrong: The poore and hungry he doth fede, and lose the fetters strong.

[verse 8] The lord doth send the blind their sight, the lame to limmes restore: The lorde, I saye, doth loue the ryght, and iust man euermore: [verse 9] He doth defend the fatherles, the strangers sad in hart. And quite the wydow from distres, and ill mens wayes subuert,

[verse 10] Thy lorde and God eternally, O Syon still shall rayne: In tyme of all posteritie, for euer to remayne.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sing thys as the. cxxxvii.