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.

Eructauit. Psalme. xlv. I. H.

¶ The maiestie of Salomon, hys honour strengthe beauty, riches, and power are praysed, and also hys maryage with the Egiptian being an Heathen woman to blessed, if that she can renounce her people and thē loue other contrey and geue her selfe wholy to her husbande, Under the whyche ••ygu••e the wonderfull maiestie▪ and the increase of the kingdome of Christe and the Churche hys spouse now taken of the genuies is described.

MY hart doth now, take in hande, * 1.1 Some godly songe to singe? Thy prayse I shall shew therin, perteyneth to the kynge. [verse 2] My tounge shalbe as quicke, his honor to endite: As is the pen of any scribe, that vseth faste to wryte.

[verse 3] O fayrest of all men, thy speache is pleasaunt pure: For God hathe blessed thee with giftes, for euer to endure. [verse 4] Aboute thee girde thy sworde O prince of might elect: With honour glory and renoume, thy person pure is dect.

[verse 5] Go forth with godly speede, in mekenes, truth and ryght: And thy ryght hand, shall thee instruct, in workes of dredfull might. [verse 6] Thyne arrowes sharpe and kene, theyr harts so sore shall stinge, That folke shall fall and knele to thee, yea all thy foes, O kynge.

[verse 7] Thy royall seate, O Lorde, for euer shall remayne: Because the scepter of thy realme, doth righteousnes maintaine. [verse 8] Because thou louest the ryghte, and dost the ill detest:

God euen thy God hath pointed thee, with ioy aboue the rest:

[verse 9] With mirth and sauours swete, thy clothes ar all be spreade: when thou dost from thy palace pas, wherin to make thee glad. [verse 10] Kinges doughters doo attend, in fine and riche araye: At thy right hand, the queene doth stand, in goulde and garments gaye.

¶ The second parte.

[verse 11] O doughter take good heede, enclyne and geue good eare: Thou must forget thy kindred all, and fathers house most dere. [verse 12] Then shall the king desire, Thy beuty fayer and trim: For why he is the Lorde thy God, and thou must worship hym.

[verse 13] The doughters then of Tire, with giftes full riche to see: And all the welthy of the lande, shall make theyr sute to thee. [verse 14] The daughter of the king, is glorious to beholde: within his closet she doth sitte, all dect in beaten goulde.

[verse 15] In robes well wrought with needle, with many a pleasaunt thyng: With virgins faier on her to waighte, she cometh to the king. [verse 16]

16 Thus are they brought with Ioy, and mirth on euery side: Into the palace of the king, and there doo they abide.

[verse 17] In stede of parents lefte, O quene the chaunge so standes. Thou shalt haue sōnes whō thou maist set as princes in all landes. [verse 18] Wherfore thy holy name, all ages shall recorde. The people shall geue thankes to thee, for euer more, O Lorde.

Notes

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  Sing this as the. xxv. psa