A heauenly harmonie of spirituall songes, and holy himnes, of godly men, patriarkes, and prophets
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- Title
- A heauenly harmonie of spirituall songes, and holy himnes, of godly men, patriarkes, and prophets
- Author
- Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
- Publication
- Imprinted at London :: [By Thomas Orwin, reissued probably by W. White],
- 1610.
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- Hymns, English.
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"A heauenly harmonie of spirituall songes, and holy himnes, of godly men, patriarkes, and prophets." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20822.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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To the curteous Reader.
GEntle Reader, my meaning is not with the varie∣tie of verse to feede any vaine humour, neither to trouble thee with deuises of mine owne inuention, as carieng an ouerweening of mine owne wit: but here I present thee with these Psalmes or Songes of praise, so exactly translated as the prose would permit, or sence would any way suffer me: which (if thou shalt be the same in hart thou art in name, I mean a Christian) I doubt not, but thou wilt take as great delight in these, as in any Poetical fiction. I speak not of Mars, the god of Wars, nor of Venus, the goddesse of loue, but of the Lord of Hostes, that made heauen and earth: Not of Toyes in Mount Ida, but of triumphes in Mount Sion: Not of Uanitie, but of Ueritie: not of Tales, but of Truethes.
Thus submitting my selfe vnto thy clemencie, and my labours vnto thy indifferencie, I wish thee as my selfe.
Thine, as his owne. M. D.