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 forthe parte.

[verse 31] The God that girded me with strēgth, is he that I doo meane: That all the wayes wherin I walke, did euermore kepe cleane. [verse 32] That made my feete lyke to the hartes, in swiftnes of my pace: And for my suertie brought me forth, into an open place

[verse 33] He did in order put my handes, to bataile and to fyght: To breake in sunder barres of bras, he gaue my armes the myght. [verse 34] Thou reachest me my sauing health, thy right hand is my tower: Thy loue and familiaritie, doeth styll encrease my power.

[verse 35] And vnder me thou makest playne, the waye where I should walke: So that my feete shall neuer stippe. nor stumble at a balke. [verse 36] And fiersely I pursue and take, my foes that me annoyed: And from the field doo not reforne, till they be all destroyde.

[verse 37] So I suppresse and wound my foes, that they can rise no more: For at my seate they fall downe flat, I strike them all so sore. [verse 38] For thou dost gird me with thy strength to warre in suche a wyse: That they be all scatred abroade, that vp against me ryse,

[verse 39] Lorde thou hast put into my handes my mortall enemies yoke: And all my foes thou dost deuide, in sonder with thy stroke. [verse 40] They calld for help but none gaue eare, to helpe them with reliefe:

Yea to the Lorde they callde for helpe, yet hearde he not their grief.