CANTVS.
The former Booke of the Musicke of M. William Damon, late one of her maiesties Musitions: conteining all the tunes of Dauids Psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the Church: most excellently by him composed into 4. parts. In which Sett the Tenor singeth the Church tune.
Published for the recreation of such as delight in Musicke: By W. Swayne Gent.
Printed by T. Este, the assigné of W. Byrd. 1591.
TO THE RIGHT HONOrable, Sir VVilliam Cecill Knight, Baron of Burghley, Lord high Treasorer of England. William Swayne wisheth long life, and the same to be most healthie and happie.
RIght Honorable my singuler good Lord, there came to my hands of late a booke conteyning all the tunes of the Psalmes, as they are ordinarilie soung in the Church, composed into foure parts by M. William Damon late one of hir Maiesties seruaunts, which booke being found not onely in my poore opinion, but in the riper iudgement of some speciall Musicions to be excellentlie sette, either to serue for voices or instruments: for the great vse that might come thereof, and partlie to preserue the labours of the Auctor, so worthie and skillfull a man in his profession: also to leaue his Religion and pietie herein witnessed, that so carefullie and speciallie laboured to aduaunce the vse of singing the Psalmes: I was earnestlie dealt with all not to deteyne that as a part of my priuate store in Musicke, that of it selfe conteyned matter so worthie publiquelie to enterteyne and to receiue enterteynment. Therefore with their perswasions and reasons, I was brought to publish them for the vse and comfort of all, especially of the godlie. And now right honorable my verie good Lord, calling to minde the dutie, honor, and seruice due by mee vnto your good Lordship, for the great loue and fauour which I haue alwaies receiued at your L. hands. (For I acknowledge my selfe to none more bound then to your honor:) I haue beene the more emboldened to present this simple worke to passe vnder your L. fauour and protection. Wishing that the same may chieflie serue to the glorie & praise of God. And then at your L. pleasure, at some times for the recreation of your minde, after your worthie and great trauayle from day to day taken in the most weightie affaires of this common wealth. And so I commend your good L. to the mercifull keping of thalmightie God.
To the Reader.
HEretofore gentle Reader, M. William Damon one of her Maiesties Musitions, being earnestly requested by a friend of his did at sundry times when he resorted to his friends house compose the tunes of Dauids Psalms as they are ordinarily soung in the Church note for note, intending thē for his friends priuate vse. These Psalmes so set, & made without labour or purpose to publish them, were notwithstanding published by the same friend of M. Damon; which not answering thexpectation that many had of the Auctors skill, gaue him occasion to take vppon him a new labour to recouer the wrong his friend did in pu [...]hing that that was so done, as might well please him▪ [...]ut was not purposed or framed for the learned eares of our times. Therefore at his best leisure & fittest times he composed the same tunes againe in so excellent a manner that by comparison of these and the former, the Reader may by triall see that the Auctor could not receiue in his Art such a note of disgrace by his friends ouersight before, but that now the same is taken away, and his worthie knowledge much more graced by this second trauaile. Now to acquaynt thee with the Auctors order in this second woorke, he hath for varietie gone through the Psalmes twice, which are now deuided into two Setts: whereof in the former the ordinarie singing part is caried in the Tenor: In the second set it is conueyed in the highest part. Herein ther is required of the Reader, if he be a louer of Musick, that he would accept of their labour that haue taken paines in publishing exactlie a worke of such singuler skill, and speciall vse for them, that after the serious labour of their calling are desirous rather to recreate them selues in singing of Psalmes, then in other exercises of lesse comfort, and euill marke.
Veni Creator.
[...] COme holy Ghost eternal God, proceeding from a- [...]boue, both from the Father and the Sonne, the God of [...]peace and loue, of peace and loue, visite our mindes and into vs, & into vs, [...]thy heauenly grace inspire, that in all truth and godlinesse, and godlinesse [...]we may haue true desire.
The humble sute of a sinner.
[...] O Lord of whom I do depend, behold my careful hart, & when thy [...]will & pleasure is, release me of my smart, thou seest my sorrowes what they are, my [...]griefe is knowen to thee, and there is none that can remoue or take the same from mee.
Te Deum.
[...] WE praise thee God, we knowledge [...]thee, we knowledge thee, the onely [...]Lord to be. And as eternall Father [...]all, the earth doth worship thee. To thee all Angells cry, the heauens & all the [...]powers therein: To thee Cherub and Seraphin, to cry they doe not linne. to [...]cry they do not linne. [...] [...] [...]
The song of the three Children.
[...] O All ye works of God the Lord, blesse ye the [...]Lord, prayse him and magnifie him for euer. [...]
Benedictus.
[...] THe onely Lord of Israell, be praised euer- more: [...]For through his vi- si- ta- ti- on and mercy kept in [...]store, his people now he hath redemd, that long hath beene in thrall, that long hath [...]bene in thrall, and spread abroad his sauing health, vpon his seruants all. vpon his [...]seruants all.
Magnificat.
[...] MY soule doth magnifie the Lord, my spirit eke [...]euermore, reioyceth in the Lord my God which [...]is my sauiour. And why because he did regard, and gaue respect vn- to, so [...]base estate of his handmayd, and let the mightie go. the mightie go. [...]
Nunc dimittis. This part folowing keeps the plain song of the church tune.
[...] O Lord because my harts desire, hath wished [...]long to see: My onelie Lord and Saui- our, thy [...]sonne before I die: The ioy and health of [Page 5] [...]all mankind de- sired long before, which now is come into the world, of [...]mercie bringing store. bringing store. [...]
Quicunque vult.
[...] WHat man soeuer he be that, soeuer he be that saluation [...]will attaine: The Catholike beliefe he must, beliefe he [...]must, before all things retaine. Which Faith vnlesse he holy keepe, and vnde- [...]filedly, and vndefiledly: Without all doubt eternally, without all doubt eternal- [...]ly, he shall be sure to dye.
The Lamentation of a sinner.
[...] O Lord turne not away thy face, frō him that lyeth pro- [...]strate: Lamenting sore his sinful life, before thy mercy gate, [...]before thy mercy gate, which gate thou openest wide to those, that do lament [...]their sinne, shut not that gate, shut not that gate, against me Lord, but let me [...]enter in. let me enter in, enter in.
The Lords praier.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art. Lord hallowed be thy [...]name. Thy kingdome come, Thy kingdome come thy will be [...]done in earth, euen as the same in heauen is. Giue vs O Lord, our dayly bread this [Page 7] [...]day, as we forgiue, as we forgiue our debters so, forgiue our debts we pray. Into temp- [...]tation lead vs not. From euill make vs free: for kingdome power and glory thine [...]both now and euer be, both now and euer be.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] HArke Israell, & what I say, harke Israell & what I say, giue [...]heed to vnderstand: giue heede to vnderstand, I am the [...]Lord, I am the Lord thy God that brought the out of Egipt land, Euen from the [...]house wherein thou didst in thraldom liue a slaue, liue a slaue. None other Gods at [...]all before, my presence shalt thou haue, shal thou haue, my presence shalt thou haue.
The complaint of a sinner. The Church tune.
[...] WHere righteousnesse doth say, Lord for my sinnefull [...]part, In wrath thou shouldst me pay, vengeance for my de- [...]sert, I can it not deny, but needs I must confesse, how that continually thy [...]lawes I do transgresse, thy lawes I do transgres.
Here beginneth the Psalmes.
Psal. 1.
[...] THe man is blest that hath not bent, to wicked rede [...]his eare, Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sate in scorners [...]chaire: in scorners chaire: But in the law of God: But in the law of God the [Page 9] [...]Lord, doth set his whole delight, doth set his whole deligh [...] ▪ [...]nd in that lawe [...]doth exercise himselfe, himselfe both day and night, himselfe both day and [...]night, both day and night.
Psal. 3.
[...] O Lord how are my foes increst, O Lord how [...]are my foes increast, which vex me, vex me more & [...]more? they kill my hart when as they say, God can him not restore, ij. But [...]thou O Lord art my de- fence, art my defence, whē I am hard [...]stead: my worship & [...]mine honor both, mine honor both, & thou holdst vp my head. ij.
Psalme. 6.
[...] LORD in thy wrath reproue me not, reproue me not [...]though I deserue thine ire: Ne yet correct mee in thy [...]rage, O Lord, I thee desire. For I am weake, for I am weake, therefore O Lord [...]of mercy me forbeare, and heale me Lord, & heale me Lord, for why? thou know'st, my [...]bones do quake for feare. my bones do quake for feare.
Psal. 14.
[...] THere is no God as foolish men, there is no God [...]as foolish men affirme affirme in their mad moode: [...]their driftes are all corupt and vaine, corupt and vaine, not one of them doth [Page 11] [...]good. The Lord beheld, the Lord beheld from heauen hye, the whole race of man- [...]kinde: And saw not one that sought in deede the liuing God to finde. [...]
Psal. 18.
[...] O God my strength and fortitude, & forti- [...]tude, O God my strength and fortitude, of force I [...]must loue thee: thou art my castle & defence in [...]my necessitie. My God my rocke in whome I rrust, My God my rocke in [...]whome I trust, in whome I trust, the worker of my wealth, of my wealth, My [...]refuge, buckler & my shield, my buckler & my shield the horne of all my health.
Psal. 21. The Church tune.
[...] O Lord how ioyful is the king, in thy strēgth [...]and thy power? How vehemently doth he reioyce, [...]in thee his Sauiour? For thou hast giuen vnto [...]him, his godly harts desire: To him nothing hast thou denide, of that he did require. [...]
Psal. 23.
[...] MY Sheapheard is the liuing Lord, nothing there- [...]fore I neede, therefore I neede: In pastures faire, in [...]pastures faire with waters calme, he set me for to feede. he set me for to feede.
Psal. 25.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, I lift mine hart to thee, mine [...]hart to thee, my God and guide most iust: Now [...]suffer me to take no shame, to take no shame for in thee doe I [...]trust. Let not my foes reioyce, nor make a scorne of me: a scorne of [...]mee: And let them not be ouerthrowne, that put theyr trust in thee. that [...]put their trust in thee. [...] [...] [...]
Psal. 25. The church tune. An other of the same.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, my God and guide most [...]iust: Now suffer me to take no shame, for in thee [...]do I trust, for in the do I trust. [...] [...]
Psal. 30.
[...] ALL laud and praise with hart and voyce, all laud [...]and praise with hart and voice, O Lord I guie to thee: [...]which didst not make my foes reioyce, but hast exalted me, O Lord my God to [Page 15] [...]thee I cride, to thee I cride in all my paine and griefe, thou gauest an eare thou [...]gauest an eare, and didst prouide to ease me with reliefe, to ease me with reliefe. [...]
Psal. 41.
[...] THe man is blest that carefull is, that carefull [...]is, the needy to con-sider, to consider. For in the [...]season peri- lous: the Lord will him deliuer. The Lord will make him safe and [...]sound, and happy in the land, and he will not deliuer him, deliuer him [...]into his enemies hand.
Psal. 44.
[...] OVr eares haue heard our fathers tell, & [...]reuerently record: the wondrous works that thou [...]hast done, the wondrous workes that thou [...]hast done in older time O Lord. How thou didst cast the Gentils out, the Gentils [...]out, and stroydst them with strong hand, planting our fathers in their place [...]and gauest to them their land.
Psal. 46.
[...] THe Lord is our defence and ayd, is our defence [...]and ayd, the strength whereby we stand, when [Page 17] [...]we with wo are much dismaid, are much dismaid, he is our helpe at hand. Though [...]thearth remoue we will not feare, though hils so high and steepe: Be thrust and [...]hurled heere and there, and there, within the Sea so deepe.
Psal 50.
[...] THe mightie God, theternall hath thus spoke theternall [...]hath thus spoke, and all the world he will call and pro- uoke, [...]euen from the East, and so foorth to the West, ij. From toward Sion [...]which place him liketh best, which place him liketh best, God will appeare in beauty [...]most excellent. Our God wil come, Our God will come before y e long time be spent.
Psal. 50. An other of the same.
[...] THe God of Gods the Lord hath cald the [...]earth by name: From where the Sunne doth rise, vn- [...]to the setting of the same. From Sion his faire place, his glorie, bright & cleare: [...]The perfect beautie of his grace, from thence it did appeare.
Psal. 51.
[...] O Lord consider my distresse, consider my distresse, [...]and now with speede some pitie take, My sinnes de- [...]face, my faults re- dresse, my faults redresse, good Lord for thy great mercie [...]sake, great mercies sake. Wash me (O Lord), Wash me O Lord and make me [Page 19] [...]cleane, from this vniust and sinfull act: & pu-rifie yet once againe, my hainous [...]crime and bloudy fact. my haynous crime and bloudy fact. [...]
Psal. 52. The Church tune.
[...] WHy doest thou tyrant boast abroad, thy wicked [...]works to praise? dost thou not know there is a God, whose [...]mercies last alwaies? Why doth thy minde yet still deuise, such wicked wiles to [...]warpe? Thy tounge vntrue in forging lies, is like a rasour sharpe.
Psal. 59.
[...] SEnd ayd & saue me from my foes, O Lord I pray to [...]thee: Defend & keep me, from all those, & keep me frō all [...]those that rise and striue with mee. O Lord, O Lord preserue me from those [...]men, preserue me from those men, whose doings are not good: And set me sure, & [...]safe from them, that still thirst after bloud. that still thirst after bloud.
Psal. 61.
[...] REgard (O Lord) for I complaine, and make my [...]sute to thee: my sute to thee: Let not my words returne in [...]vaine, Let not my words returne in vaine, but giue an eare to me. From of the [Page 21] [...]coastes & vtmost parts, of all the earth abroad: of all the earth abroad: In griefe & [...]anguish of my hart, and anguish of my hart, I cry to thee O God. to thee (O God.) [...]
Psal. 68.
[...] LEt God arise & then his foes, Let God arise & thē his [...]foes, will turne them selues to flight: His enmies then will [...]runne abroad, will runne abroad, and scatter out of sight. And as the fire doth [...]melt the wax, & winde blow smoke a- way: So in the presence of the Lord, of the [...]Lord, of the Lord, the wicked shall de- cay. shall decay.
Psal. 69. The Church tune.
[...] SAue mee O God and that with speede, the waters [...]flow full fast: so ny my soule do they proceed, that I am [...]sore agast. I stick ful deep in filth & clay, wheras I feele no ground, I fall into [...]such flouds I say, that I am like be drownd. be drownd. [...]
Psal. 72.
[...] LOrd giue thy iudgements to the King, Lord giue thy [...]iudgements to the king, therin instruct him well: And [...]with his sonne, that princely thing, Lord let thy iustice dwell. That he may gouerne [Page 23] [...]vprightly, gouerne vprightly, and rule thy folke aright: And so defend, And [...]so defend through equitie, the poore that haue no might, that haue no might. [...]
Psal. 77. The Church tune.
[...] I With my voice to God do cry, with hart & harty [...]cheare: My voyce to God. I lift on hie, and he my [...]sute doth heare. In time of griefe I sought to God, by night no rest I tooke: [...]But stretcht my hands to him abroad, my Soule comfort forsooke. com- [...]fort forsooke.
Psal. 78.
[...] ATtend my people to my lawe, and to my words in- [...]cline: My mouth shal speake straunge parables, straunge [...]para- bles, and sentences diuine. Which we our selues haue hard and learnd, euen of [...]our fathers old: and which for our instruction, instruction, our fathers haue vs [...]told. haue vs told.
Psal. 81. The Church tune.
[...] BE light and glad in God reioyce, which is our [...]strength and stay: be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce, to [...]I [...]cobs God I say. Prepare your instruments most meete, some ioyfull spalme to [Page 25] [...]sing▪ strike vp with harp and lute so sweete, on euerie pleasant string. [...] [...]
Psal. 88.
[...] LOrd God of health, the hope and stay, the hope and [...]stay, thou art alone to me: I call and cry, I call and [...]cry throughout the day, and all the night to thee. O let my prayers, O let my [...]prayers soone ascend, vnto thy sight on hye: Incline thine eare O Lord, entend O [...]Lord, entend and harken to my cry.
Psal. 100.
[...] ALL people that on earth do dwell, on earth do [...]dwell, sing to the Lord with cherefull voyce, with cherefull [...]voyce. Him serue with feare his praise forth tell, come ye before him and reioyce, [...]come ye before him and reioyce, and reioyce. [...]
Psal. 103.
[...] MY soule giue laud vnto the Lord, my soule giue laud [...]vnto the Lord, my sprite shall do the same: and all the [...]secrets of my hart, prayse ye his holy name. Giue thankes to God, for all his [Page 27] [...]gifts, shew not thy selfe vnkind, and suffer not, and suffer not his benefits, to [...]slip out of thy minde. to slip out of thy minde. [...]
Psal. 104.
[...] MY soule prayse the Lord, speake good of his name, O [...]Lord our great God how doest thou appeare, so passing in glorie, that great is [...]thy fame? Honor and maiesty in thee shine most cleare, with light as a robe [...]thou hast thee beclad, whereby all the earth thy greatnesse may see, the heauens [...]in such sort thou also hast spread, that it to a curtaine cōpared may be. cōpard may be.
Psal. 111.
[...] WIth hart I do accord, to praise & laude the Lord, the Lord, [...]to praise & laude y e Lord, in presence of y e iust. In presence [...]of the iust. For great his works are found, to search them such are bound, as do him [...]loue & trust. ij. His works are glorious, ij. also his righteousnes, ij. [...]his righteousnes, it doth endure for e- uer. His wōdrous works he wold, [...]we still remember should, his mercy faileth neuer. faileth neuer. his mercy faileth neuer.
Psal. 113.
[...] YE children which do serue the Lord, prayse ye his [...]name with one accord, with one accord. Yea blessed be al- [Page 29] [...]waies his name. Who frō the rising of the Sun, till it returne where it begun, where [...]it be- gun, is to be praised with great fame. The Lord all people doth surmount, [...]doth surmount: as for his glory we may count, we may count, aboue the heauens [...]high to be. With God the Lord who may compare, whose dwellings in the heauēs [...]are, in the heauens are, of so great power & force is he. & force is he.
Psal. 116. The church tune.
[...] I loue the Lord because my voyce, & prayer heard hath [...]he: When in my dayes I cald on him, he bowde his [...]eare to me. his eare to me.
Psal. 119.
[...] BLessed are they that perfect are, & pure in mind & [...]hart: Whose liues and conuersation, from Gods lawes neuer [...]start. Blessed are they that giue them selues, his statuts to obserue: Seeking [...]the Lord with all their hart, and neuer from him swerue. him swerue. [...] [...]
Psal. 120. The church tune.
[...] IN trouble and in thrall, vnto the Lord I call, [...]and he doth me comfort. Deliuer me I say, from [Page 31] [...]liers lips alway, and tongue of false report. and tongue of false report. [...] [...]
Psal. 121.
[...] I Lift mine eyes to Sion hill, to Sion hill, from whence I [...]doe from whence I doe attend, that succour God me send. The [...]mightie God, the mightie God me succour will, which heauen and earth which [...]heauen & earth framed, and all things therein named. and all things therein named. [...]and all things therein named.
Psal. 122.
[...] I Did in hart reioyce, in hart reioyce, to heare the [...]peoples voice, the peoples voice, in offering so willingly: For [...]let vs vp say they, for let vs vp say they, and in the Lordes house pray, thus [...]spake the folke full louingly. Our feete that wandred wide, shall in the gates abide, [...]O thou Ierusalem full fayre, which art so seemely set, much like a city net, a [...]city net, the like whereof is not else where. is not else where.
Psal. 124.
[...] NOw Israell may say and that truely, and that truely if [...]that the Lord had not our cause maintaind, our cause main- [Page 33] [...]taind, if that the Lord had not our right sustaind, when all the world against vs [...]furiously, made their vprores, made their vprores, and said we should all dye. and [...]said we should all dye.
Psal. 125.
[...] SVch as in God y e Lord do trust, the [...]Lord do trust, as moūt Sion, shall firmely [...]stād, shal firmely stand: And be remoued [...]at no hand, at no hand. The Lord will count them right and iust, so that they [...]shall be sure, they shall be sure, for euer to endure. for euer to endure.
Psal. 126
[...] WHen that the Lord, when that the Lord againe his Syon [...]had foorth brought, from bondage great, & also seruitude ex- [...]treme, his worke was such as did surmount mans hart and thought, mans hart and [...]thought so that we were, much like to them that vse to dreame. Our mouthes were [...]with laughter filled then, and eke our tongues did shew vs, shew vs ioyfull men.
Psal. 130.
[...] LOrd to thee I make my mone, Lord to thee I make my [...]mone, when daungers me oppresse I call I sigh plaine [...]& grone, & grone, trusting to finde release, to finde release. Heare now O Lord my [Page 35] [...]request, O Lord my request, for it is ful due time: And let thine eares aye be prest, be [...]prest, vnto this prayer mine. vnto this prayer mine. this prayer mine. [...]
Psal. 132.
[...] REmember Dauids troubles Lord, how to the Lord he [...]swore, how to the Lord he swore: and vowd a vow to [...]Iacobs God, to keepe for euer more. I will not come within my house, within my [...]house, nor clime vp to my bed, nor let my temples take their rest, my temples [...]take their rest, their rest, or the eyes in my head. or the eyes in my head.
Psal. 134.
[...] BEhold and haue regard, & haue regard, ye seruants [...]of the Lord, Which in his house by night doe watch, [...]by night do watch, by night doe watch, prayse him with one accord, with one ac- [...]cord. with one accord. [...]
Psal. 135.
[...] O Praise the Lord, praise him, praise him, praise him [...]with one accord. O praise him still, O praise him still all [...]ye that be the seruants of the Lord. O praise him ye that stand, that stand and [Page 37] [...]be in the house of the Lord: in the house of the Lord: Ye of his court and of his [...]house, and of his house, prayse him with one accord. praise him with one accord.
Psal. 136.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord for he is good, for he is good, [...]for his mercy endureth for euer. Giue praise vnto [...]the God of Gods, vnto the God of Gods, for his mercy endureth for e- uer. Giue [...]praise vnto, giue praise vn- to the Lord of Lords, for his mercy endureth for e- [...]uer. for euer. Which onely doth great wonders works, which onely doth [...]great wonders works, for his mercy endureth for euer.
Psal. 137.
[...] WHen as we sate in Babi- lon, the riuers round a- [...]bout, the riuers round about: And in remembrance of Si- [...]on, the teares for griefe burst out. the teares for griefe burst out. We hangd our [...]Harps and instruments, the willow trees vpon: for in that place, men for their [...]vse, for their vse, had plāted many one. had planted many one.
Psal. 141.
[...] O Lord vpon thee doe I call, vpon thee doe I [...]call, Lord hast thee vnto me. hast thee vnto me. And [...]harken Lord vn- to my voyce, when I do cry to thee. As incense, let my prayer [Page 39] [...]be, let my prayer be dire- cted in thine eyes: And the vplifting of my hands, vp- [...]lifting of my hands, as euening sacrifice. as euening sacrifice. [...] [...]
Psal. 142.
[...] BEfore the Lord God with my voyce, I did send [...]out my cry, & with my strayned voyce, vnto the Lord God [...]prayed I. My meditation in his sight, to power I did not spare: And [...]in the presence of the Lord, my trouble dyd de- clare. I did declare. did declare.
Psal. 145.
[...] THee will I laud my God and king, my God & [...]king, & blesse thy name for aye: for euer will I [...]praise thy name, & blesse thee day by day. Great is the Lord most worthie prayse, his [...]greatnesse none can reach: his greatnesse none can reach, from race to race they [...]shall thy workes, they shall thy workes prayse, and thy power preach. [...]
Psal. 147.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord, for it is good, for it is good, vnto our [...]God to sing, for it is pleasant, and to prayse, it is a comely [Page 41] [...]thing: The Lord his owne Ieru- salem, he buildeth vp alone, and the dis- [...]perst of Israel, and the disperst of Israell, doth gather into one doth gather into one.
Psal. 148.
[...] GIue laud vnto the Lord, vnto the Lord, from heauen that [...]is so hye: prayse him in deede and word, prayse him in [...]deede and word, aboue, aboue the Starry skye. And also ye: and also ye his Angels [...]all, armies royall, armies royall, prayse him with glee. prayse him with glee▪ with glee.
The X Commaundements.
[...] ATtend my people and giue eare, my people and giue [...]eare, of ferly things I will thee tell, I will thee tell: [...]See that my wordes in minde thou beare, & to my precepts listen well, listen well. [...]
The Lords Prayer.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art, which in [...]heauen art, & makst vs all one brotherhood, one brother- [...]hood, to call vpon thee with one hart, our, heauenly Father and our God, our [...]heauenly Father and our God: Graunt we pray not with lips alone, but with the [Page 43] [...]hartes deepe sigh and grone, and grone, deepe sigh and grone. [...]
The Creede.
[...] ALL my beliefe and confidence, all my beliefe and confidence [...]is in the Lord of might: the Lord of might, is in the Lord of [...]might: The Father which all things hath made, the Father which all things hath [...]made, the day and eke the night. The heauens and the firmament, and the firma- [...]ment, and also many Star, and also many Star, the earth and all that is there- [...]in, which passe mans reason farre. which passe mans reason farre. reason farre.
Da pacem Domine.
[...] GIue peace in these our dayes O Lord, in these our dayes O [...]Lord, great dangers are now at hand: are now at hand: thine eni- [...]mies with one accord, Christes name in euery land, in euery land, seeke to de- [...]face, roote out and race, roote out and race, thy true right worship in deede: Be [...]thou the stay, Lord we thee pray: Thou helpst alone, thou helpst alone in all neede. [...]
The Lamentation.
[...] O Lord in thee is all my trust, giue eare vn- [...]to my wofull crye: Refuse me not that am vniust, [Page 45] [...]but bowing downe thy heauenly eye: Behold how I doe still lament, my sinnes [...]wherein I doe offend: O Lord for them shall I be shent, sith thee to please I [...]doe entend. [...]
[...] PReserue vs Lord by thy deare word, from Turke & [...]Pope defend vs Lord: defend vs Lord: which both [...]would thrust out of his throne, out of his throne, our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare [...]sonne. our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne.
A prayer for the Queenes most excellent maiestie.
[...] O Mightie God preserue the throne [...]of thy seruant, of thy seruant ELIZA- [...]BETH: Her royall Scepter, her royall [...]S [...]pter and her Crowne, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health, our Pearle, [...]our Ioy, our stay and health, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay, and health, [...]our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health. [...]
A prayer for the Queenes most excellent maiestie.
[...] O Mightie God preserue the throne, pre- [...]serue the throne, preserue the throne of thy ser- [...]uant, of thy seruant ELI- ZA-BETH. E- [...]LIZABETH: Her royall Scepter, her royall Scepter [...] [...]our Pearle our Ioy, our stay and health, our Pearle, our Ioy, [...]our stay and health, our Pearle, our Ioy, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay & health. [...]
THE TABLE.
- COme holy Gost.
- 1
- O Lord of whome I do depend.
- 1
- We praise thee God.
- 2
- O all ye workes of God.
- 2
- The onely Lord of Israell.
- 3
- My soule doth magnifie the Lord.
- 4
- O Lord because my harts desire.
- 4
- What man soeuer he be that.
- 5
- O Lord turne not away thy face.
- 6
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 6
- Harke Israell, and what I say.
- 7
- Where righteousnesse doth say.
- 8
| Psalm▪ | A | Fol. |
| 30 | All laud and prayse. | 14 |
| 78 | Attend my people to my law. | 24 |
| 100 | All people that on earth do dwel. | 26 |
| B | ||
| 81 | Be light and glad. | 24 |
| 119 | Blessed are they. | 30 |
| 134 | Behold and haue regard. | 36 |
| 142 | Before the Lord. | 39 |
| G | ||
| 148 | Giue laud vnto the Lord. | 41 |
| I | ||
| 25 | I lift mine hart to thee. | 13 |
| 25 | An other of the same. | 14 |
| 77 | I with my voyce. | 23 |
| 116 | I loue the Lord. | 29 |
| 120 | In trouble and in thrall. | 30 |
| 121 | I lift mine eyes. | 31 |
| 122 | I did in hart reioyce. | 32 |
| L | ||
| 6 | Lord in thy wrath. | 10 |
| 68 | Let God arise | 21 |
| 72 | Lord giue thy iudgements. | 22 |
| 88 | Lord God of health. | 25 |
| 130 | Lord to thee I make my mone. | 34 |
| M | ||
| 23 | My shepherd is the liuing Lord. | 12 |
| 103 | My soule giue laud. | 26 |
| 104 | My soule prayse the Lord. | 27 |
| N | ||
| 124 | Now Israell may say. | 32 |
| O | ||
| 3 | O Lord how are my foes. | 9 |
| 18 | O God my strength & fortitude. | 11 |
| 21 | O Lord how ioyfull is the king. | 12 |
| 44 | Our eares haue heard. | 16 |
| 51 | O Lord consider my distresse. | 18 |
| 135 | O Prayse the Lord. | 36 |
| 141 | O Lord vpon thee do I call. | 38 |
| P | ||
| 136 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 37 |
| 147 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 40 |
| R | ||
| 61 | Regard (O Lord.) | 20 |
| 132 | Remember Dauids troubles. | 35 |
| S | ||
| 59 | Send ayd & saue me. | 20 |
| 69 | Saue me O God. | 22 |
| 125 | Such as in God the Lord. | 33 |
| T | ||
| 1 | The man is blest. | 8 |
| 14 | There is no God. | 10 |
| 41 | The man is blest that careful is. | 15 |
| 46 | The Lord is our defence. | 16 |
| 50 | The mightie God. | 17 |
| 50 | The God of Gods. | 18 |
| 145 | Thee will I laud. | 40 |
| W | ||
| 52 | Why dost thou tyrant boast. | 19 |
| 111 | With hart I do accord. | 28 |
| 126 | When that the Lord. | 34 |
| 137 | When as we sat in Babilon. | 38 |
| Y | ||
| 113 | Ye children. | 28 |
- Attend my people,
- 42
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 42
- All my beliefe and confidence.
- 43
- Giue peace in these our days.
- 44
- O Lord in thee is all my trust.
- 44
- Preserue vs Lord.
- 45
- O mightie God. Being of 5. parts.
- 46
TENOR.
The former Booke of the Musicke of M. William Damon, late one of her maiesties Musitions: conteining all the tunes of Dauids Psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the Church: most excellently by him composed into 4. parts. In which Sett the Tenor singeth the Church tune.
Published for the recreation of such as delight in Musicke: By W. Swayne Gent.
Printed by T. Este, the assigné of W. Byrd. 1591.
TO THE RIGHT HONOrable, Sir VVilliam Cecill Knight, Baron of Burghley, Lord high Treasorer of England. William Swayne wisheth long life, and the same to be most healthie and happie.
RIght Honorable my singuler good Lord, there came to my hands of late a booke conteyning all the tunes of the Psalmes, as they are ordinarilie soung in the Church, composed into foure parts by M. William Damon late one of hir Maiesties seruaunts, which booke being found not onely in my poore opinion, but in the riper iudgement of some speciall Musicions to be excellentlie sette, either to serue for voices or instruments: for the great vse that might come thereof, and partlie to preserue the labours of the Auctor, so worthie and skillfull a man in his profession: also to leaue his Religion and pietie herein witnessed, that so carefullie and speciallie laboured to aduaunce the vse of singing the Psalmes: I was earnestlie dealt with all not to deteyne that as a part of my priuate store in Musicke, that of it selfe conteyned matter so worthie publiquelie to enterteyne and to receiue enterteynment. Therefore with their perswasions and reasons, I was brought to publish them for the vse and comfort of all, especially of the godlie. And now right honorable my verie good Lord, calling to minde the dutie, honor, and seruice due by mee vnto your good Lordship, for the great loue and fauour which I haue alwaies receiued at your L. hands. (For I acknowledge my selfe to none more bound then to your honor:) I haue beene the more emboldened to present this simple worke to passe vnder your L. fauour and protection. Wishing that the same may chieflie serue to the glorie & praise of God. And then at your L. pleasure, at some times for the recreation of your minde, after your worthie and great trauayle from day to day taken in the most weightie affaires of this common wealth. And so I commend your good L. to the mercifull keping of thalmightie God.
To the Reader.
HEretofore gentle Reader, M. William Damon one of her Maiesties Musitions, being earnestly requested by a friend of his did at sundry times when he resorted to his friends house compose the tunes of Dauids Psalms as they are ordinarily soung in the Church note for note, intending thē for his friends priuate vse. These Psalmes so set, & made without labour or purpose to publish them, were notwithstanding published by the same friend of M. Damon; which not answering thexpectation that many had of the Auctors skill, gaue him occasion to take vppon him a new labour to recouer the wrong his friend did in publishing that that was so done, as might well please him, but was not purposed or framed for the learned eares of our times. Therefore at his best leisure & fittest times he composed the same tunes againe in so excellent a manner that by comparison of these and the former, the Reader may by triall see that the Auctor could not receiue in his Art such a note of disgrace by his friends ouersight before, but that now the same is taken away, and his worthie knowledge much more graced by this second trauaile. Now to acquaynt thee with the Auctors order in this second woorke, he hath for varietie gone through the Psalmes twice, which are now deuided into two Setts: whereof in the former the ordinarie singing part is caried in the Tenor: In the second set it is conueyed in the highest part. Herein ther is required of the Reader, if he be a louer of Musick, that he would accept of their labour that haue taken paines in publishing exactlie a worke of such singuler skill, and speciall vse for them, that after the serious labour of their calling are desirous rather to recreate them selues in singing of Psalmes, then in other exercises of lesse comfort, and euill marke.
Veni Creator.
[...] COme holy Ghost eternal God, proceeding from aboue, [...]both from the Father and the Sonne, the God of peace & [...]loue, visite our mindes and into vs, thy heauenly grace inspire, that in all [...]truth and godlinesse, we may haue true desire.
The humble sute of a sinner.
[...] O Lord of whom I do depend, behold my carefull hart, [...]and when thy will & pleasure is, release me of my smart, thou seest my [...]sorrowes what they are my griefe is knowen to thee and there is none that [...]can remoue or take the same from mee.
Te Deum.
[...] WE praise thee God, we knowledge [...]thee, the onely Lord to be. And [...]as eter- nall Father all, the earth doth [...]worship thee. To thee all Angells cry, the heauens and all the powers therein: [...]To thee Cherub and Seraphin, to cry they do not linne. to cry they do not linne.
The song of the three Children.
[...] O All ye workes of God the Lorde, [...]blesse ye the Lord, prayse him and magnifie [...]him for euer.
Benedictus.
[...] THe onelie Lord of Israell, be praised euermore: [...]For through his vi- si- ta- ti-on and mercy kept in [...]store, his people now he hath redemd, that long hath beene in thrall, and spread a- [...]broad his sauing health, vpon his seruants all. vpon his seruants all. [...] [...] [...] [...]
Magnificat.
[...] MY soule doth magnifie the Lord, my spirit eke [...]euermore, reioyceth in the Lord my God which is my [...]sauiour. And why because he did regard, & gaue respect vnto, so base [...]estate of his handmayd, and let the mightie go. [...]
Nunc dimittis.
[...] O Lord because my harts desire, hath wished [...]long to see: My onelie Lord and Saui- our, thy [...]sonne before I die: The ioy and health of all man- [Page 5] [...]kind desired long before, desired long before, which now is come into the world, of [...]mercie bringing store. bringing store. [...] [...]
Quicunque vult.
[...] WHat man soeuer he be that sal- uation will attaine: [...]The catholike beliefe he must before all things re- [...]taine. Which Faith vnlesse he holy keepe, and vndefiledly: Without all [...]doubt eternally he shall be sure to dye.
The Lamentation of a sinner.
[...] O Lord turne not away thy face, from him that [...]lyeth prostrate: Lamenting sore his sinfull lyfe, be- [...]fore thy mercy gate, which gate thou openest wide to those, that do la- [...]ment their sinne, shut not that gate against me Lord, but let me enter [...]in, enter in.
The Lords praier.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art. Lord hallowed be thy [...]name. Thy kingdome come, thy will be done in earth euen [...]as the same in heauen is. Giue vs O Lord-our dayly bread this day, as [Page 7] [...]we forgiue our debters so forgiue our debts we pray. Into temptation lead vs not. [...]From euill make vs free: for kingdome power and glory thine, both now [...]and e- uer be.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] HArke Israell, and what I say, giue heed to vnder- [...]stand: giue heed to vnderstand: I am the Lord thy God that [...]brought thee out of Egipt land. Euen from the house wherein thou didst in [...]thraldom liue a slaue. None other Gods at all before, at all before, my presence [...]shalt thou haue my presence shalt thou haue.
The complaint of a sinner.
[...] WHere righteousnesse doth say, righteousnesse doth [...]say, Lord for my sinnefull part, Lord for my sinnefull part, [...]In wrath thou shouldst me pay, vengeance for my desert, I can it not deny, but needs I [...]must confesse, but needes I must con- fesse, how that continually thy lawes I [...]do transgresse, how that continually, thy lawes I do transgres thy lawes I do transgres.
Here beginneth the Psalmes.
Psal. 1.
[...] THe man is blest that hath not bent, to wicked [...]rede his eare, Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sate in [...]scorners chaire: But in the law of God the Lord, doth set his whole delight, and [Page 9] [...]in that lawe doth exercise himselfe both day and night, himselfe both [...]day and night. [...]
Psal. 3.
[...] O Lord how are my foes increst, which [...]vex me more and more? they kill my [...]hart when as they say, God can him not restore. [...]But thou O Lord art my defence when I am hard bestead: my worship & mine [...]honor both▪ and thou holdst vp my head▪ and thou holdst vp my head.
Psalme. 6.
[...] LORD in thy wrath reproue me not, though I de- [...]serue thine ire: Ne yet correct mee in thy rage, O Lord, I [...]thee desire. For I am weake, therfore O Lord of mercy me forbeare, and heale me [...]Lord, for why? thou know'st, my bones do quake for feare. do quake for feare. [...]
Psal. 14.
[...] THere is no God as foolish men, affirme in [...]their mad moode: their driftes are all corupt & vaine not [...]one of them doth good. The Lord beheld from heauen hye, the whole race [Page 11] [...]of mankinde: And saw not one, that sought in deede the liuing God to finde. [...] [...]
Psal. 18.
[...] O God my strength and fortitude, of [...]force I must loue thee: thou art my castle [...]and defence in my necessi- tie. My God my [...]rocke in whome I trust, My God my rocke in whome I trust, the worker [...]of my wealth, My refuge buckler & my shield, the horne of all my health.
Psal. 21.
[...] O Lord how ioyful is the king, O Lord how ioy- [...]full is the king, in thy strength and thy power? [...]How vehemently doth he reioyce, doth he re- [...]ioyce, in thee his Saui- our? For thou hast giuen vnto him, hast giuen vnto him [...]his godly harts desire: To him nothing hast thou denide, hast thou denide, of that [...]he did require. [...] [...] [...]
Psal. 23.
[...] MY Sheapheard is the liuing Lord, nothing therefore [...]I neede: In pastures faire, with waters calme, he set [...]me for to feede. for to feede.
Psal. 25.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, mine hart to thee, my [...]God and guide most iust: Now suffer me to take no [...]shame, for in thee doe I trust. Let not my foes reioyce, nor make a [...]scorne of me, a scorne of me: And let them not be ouerthrowne, and let them [...]not be ouerthrowne, that put theyr trust in thee.
Psal. 25. An other of the same.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, mine hart to thee, my [...]God and guide most iust, and guide most iust: Now [...]suffer me to take no shame, for in thee doe I trust, for in the doe I trust, for [...]in thee doe I trust. [...]
Psal. 30.
[...] ALL laud and praise with hart and voyce, O [...]Lord I giue to thee: which didst not make my foes re- [...]ioyce, but hast exalted me, exal- ted me, O Lord my God to thee I cride, [Page 15] [...]in all my paine and griefe, thou gauest an eare, thou gauest an eare, and didst pro- [...]uide, to ease me with reliefe, with reliefe. [...] [...]
Psal. 41.
[...] THe man is blest that careful is, the needy to [...]consi- der: For in the season perilous, the Lord will [...]him deliuer. The Lord will make him safe and sound, and happy in the land, [...]and happy in the land, and he will not deliuer him, into his enemies hand.
Psal. 44.
[...] OVr eares haue heard our fathers tell, our eares haue [...]heard our fathers tell, and reuerently record: the [...]wondrous workes that thou hast done, that thou hast done, in older time O Lord. [...]How thou didst cast the Gentils out, and stroydst them with strong hand, plan- [...]ting our fathers in their place, and gauest to them their land.
Psal. 46.
[...] THe Lord is our defence and ayd, is our defence and [...]ayd, the strength whereby we stand, when we with wo are [...]much dismaid, are much dismaid, he is our helpe at hand. Though thearth re- [Page 17] [...]moue we will not feare, though thearth remoue we will not feare, though hils so [...]high and steepe: Be thrust and hurled here and there, and hurled here and [...]there, within the Sea so deepe.
Psal. 50.
[...] THe mightie God, theternall hath thus spoke, [...]and all the world he will call and prouoke, euen [...]from the East, and so foorth to the West. From toward Sion which place him [...]liketh best, God will appeare in beauty most excellent. Our God wil come be- [...]fore that long time be spent, be spent.
Psal. 50. An other of the same.
[...] THe God of Gods the Lord hath cald the earth by [...]name: From where the Sunne doth rise, the Sunne doth [...]rise, vnto the setting of the same. From Sion his faire place, from Sion his faire [...]place, his glorie bright and cleare: The perfect beautie of his grace, beautie of his [...]grace, from thence it did appeare.
Psal. 51.
[...] O Lord consider my distresse, and now with speede some [...]pitie take, My sinnes deface, my faults redresse, good [...]Lord for thy great mercie sake, Wash me (O Lord) and make me cleane, from [Page 19] [...]this vniust and sinnfull act: and purifie yet once againe, my hainous crime and [...]bloudy fact, and bloudy fact. [...]
Psal. 52.
[...] WHy doost thou tyrant boast abroad, thy wicked [...]workes to praise? thy wicked workes to praise? doest thou not [...]know there is a God, whose mercies last alwaies? Why doth thy minde yet still de- [...]uise, yet still deuise, such wicked wiles to warpe? Thy tounge vntrue in forging [...]lies, is like a rasour sharpe.
Psal. 59.
[...] SEnd ayd & saue me from my foes, O Lord I pray to [...] [...]thee: Defend & keepe me from all those, that rise and [...]striue with mee. O Lord preserue me from those men, whose doings are not [...]good: And set me sure, and set me sure and safe from them that still thirst [...]after bloud, after bloud.
Psal. 61.
[...] REgard (O Lord) for I complaine, and make my sute [...]to thee: Let not my words returne in vaine, returne in [...]vaine, but giue an eare to mee. From of the coastes & vtmost parts, of [Page 21] [...]all the earth abroad: of all the earth abroad: In griefe and anguish of my [...]hart, I cry to thee O God. to thee (O God.) [...]
Psal. 68.
[...] LEt God arise and then his foes, will turne them [...]selues to flight: His enmies then will runne abroad, [...]and scatter out of sight. And as the fire doth melt the waxe, and winde blow [...]smoke away: So in the presence of the Lord, the wicked shall decay. [...]shall decay.
Psal. 69.
[...] SAue me O GOD and that with speede, & that with [...]speed, the waters flow full fast: the waters flow full fast: [...]so ny my soule do they proceed, do they proceed, that I am sore agast. I stick full [...]deep in filth & clay, in filth & clay, whereas I feele no ground, I fall in- to, I [...]fall into such flouds I say, that I am like be drownd that I am like be drownd.
Psal. 72.
[...] LORD giue thy iudgements to the King, therein in- [...]struct him well: And with his sonne that princely thing, [...]Lord let thy iustice dwell. That he may gouerne vprightly, and rule thy folke a- [Page 23] [...]right: And so defend through equitie, the poore that haue no might. that [...]haue no might.
Psal. 77.
[...] I With my voice to God do cry, to God do cry, with [...]hart & harty cheare: with hart & harty cheare: My voyce to [...]God I lift on hie, I lift on hie, and he my sute doth heare. In time of griefe I [...]sought to God, I sought to God, by night no rest I tooke: But stretcht my [...]hands to him abroad, to him abroad, my Soule comfort forsooke. com- [...]fort forsooke.
Psal. 78.
[...] ATtend my people to my lawe, and to my words in- [...]cline: My mouth shall speake straunge parables, and [...]sentences diuine. Which we our selues haue hard and learnd, euen of our fathers [...]old: and which for our instruction, our fathers haue vs told, haue vs told. [...]
Psal. 81.
[...] BE light and glad, be light and glad in God reioyce, [...]which is our strength and stay: which is our strength and [...]stay: Be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce, to Iacobs God I say. Prepare your instru- [Page 25] [...]ments most meete, some ioyfull Psalme to sing, strike vp with Harp and Lute [...]so sweete, on euerie pleasant string. [...] [...]
Psal. 88.
[...] LOrd God of health, the hope and stay, thou [...]art alone to me: I call and cry throughout the day, [...]and all the night to thee. O let my prayers soone ascend, vnto thy sight on [...]hye: Incline thine eare O Lord, entend and harken to my cry.
Psal. 100.
[...] ALL people that on earth do dwell, sing to the [...]Lord with cherefull voyce, Him serue with feare his [...]praise forth tell, come ye before him and reioyce, come ye before him and re- [...]ioyce. and reioyce.
Psal. 103.
[...] MY soule giue laud vnto the Lord, my sprite shal [...]do the same, shall do the same: and all the secrets [...]of my hart, prayse ye his holy name. Giue thankes to God, giue thankes to God for [...]all his gifts, for all his giftes, shew not thy selfe vnkind, and suffer not, and suffer [Page 27] [...]not his benefits, to slip out of thy minde. to slip out of thy minde. [...]
Psal. 104.
[...] MY soule prayse the Lord, my soule prayse the Lord speake [...]good of his name, O Lord our great God how doest thou ap- [...]peare, how doest thou appeare, so passing in glorie that great is thy fame? Honor [...]and maiesty in thee shine most cleare, with light as a robe thou hast thee be- [...]clad, thou hast thee beclad, whereby all the earth thy greatnesse may see, the heauens [...]in such sort thou also hast spread, that it to a curtaine, cōpared may be. cōpared may be.
Psal. 111.
[...] WIth hart I do accord, to praise & laude y e Lord, to praise & laude the [...]Lord, in presence of the iust. For great his works are found, to search them such [...]are bound, ij. as do him loue & trust. His works are glorious, [...]also his righteousnes, ij. it doth endure for euer. His wondrous [...]works he would, we still remember should, his mercy faileth neuer. faileth neuer.
Psal. 113.
[...] YE children which do serue the Lord, praise ye his name with [...]one accord, yea blessed be alwaies his name. Who frō the rising of the Sun, till it [...]returne wher it begun, is to be praised with great fame. The Lord all people [Page 29] [...]doth surmount: as for his glory we may count, aboue the heauens high to be. [...]With God the Lord who may compare, whose dwellings in the heauēs are, [...]of so great power & force is he. & force is he. [...]
Psal. 116.
[...] I Loue the Lord because my voyce, because my voyce & [...]prayer heard hath he: When in my dayes, when in my [...]dayes I cald on him, he bowde his eare to me. he bowde his eare to me. his [...]eare to me.
Psal. 119.
[...] BLessed are they that perfect are, Blessed are they that [...]perfect are, and pure in mind, & pure in minde and hart: [...]Whose liues and conuersation, and conuersation from Gods lawes neuer start. [...]Blessed are they that giue them selues, his statuts to obserue: Seeking the [...]Lord with all their hart, with all their hart, and neuer from him swerue. and neuer [...]from him swerue.
Psal. 120.
[...] IN trouble and in thrall, & in thrall, vnto the Lord I [...]call, and he doth me comfort. doth me comfort. Deliuer [Page 31] [...]me I say, from liers lips alway, & tongue of false report. & tongue of false report. [...]and tongue of false report. [...] [...]
Psal. 121.
[...] I Lift mine eyes to Sion hill, to Sion hill, from [...]whence I do atttend, that succour God me send. The [...]mightie God, me succour will, which heauen & earth framed, and all things therein [...]named. and all things therein named.
Psal. 122.
[...] I Did in hart reioyce, to heare the peopls voice, [...]in offering so willingly: For let vs vp say they, & [...]in the Lordes house pray, thus spake the folke full louingly, Our feete that [...]wandred wide, shall in the gates abide, O thou Ierusalem full fayre, which art so [...]seemely set, much like a city net, the like whereof is not else where. [...]
Psal. 124.
[...] NOw Israell may say and that truely, if that the Lord [...]had not our cause maintaind, if that the Lord had not [Page 33] [...]our right sustaind, when all the world against vs furiously, made their vprores, [...]and said we should all dye. and said we should all dye. [...] [...]
Psal. 125.
[...] SVch as in God the Lord do trust, [...]as mount Sion, shall firmely stand: [...]And be remoued at no hand. The [...]Lord will count them right and iust, so that they shall be sure, for euer to endure.
Psal. 126
[...] WHen that the Lord, againe his Syon had foorth brought, [...]from bondage great, & also seruitude extreme, his worke was [...]such as did surmount mans hart & thought, so that we were, much like to them that [...]vse to dreame. Our mouthes were with laughter filled then, and eke our tongues [...]did shew vs ioyfull men. [...]
Psal. 130.
[...] LOrd to thee I make my mone, when daungers me op- [...]presse, I call I sigh plaine and grone, trusting to finde re- [Page 35] [...]lease. Heare now O Lord my request, for it is full due time: And let thine [...]eares aye be prest vnto this prayer mine. [...] [...]
Psal. 132.
[...] REmember Dauids troubles Lord, how to the Lord he [...]swore, and vowd a vow to Iacobs God, to Iacobs God to [...]keepe for euer more. I will not come within my house, nor clime vp to my bed, [...]nor let my temples take their rest, or the eyes in my head. or the eyes in my head.
Psal. 134.
[...] BEhold and haue regard, ye seruants of the Lord: [...]Which in his house by night doe watch, prayse him [...]with one accord. with one accord. [...] [...]
Psal. 135.
[...] O Prayse the Lord, prayse him, prayse him, prayse [...]him with one accord. O prayse him still all ye that be [...]the seruants of the Lord. O praise him ye that stand and be in the house [Page 37] [...]of the Lord: Ye of his court and of his house, prayse him with one ac- [...]cord. with one accord. [...]
Psal. 136.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord for he is good, for his mer- [...]cy endureth for euer. Giue prayse vnto the God of [...]Gods, for his mercy endureth for euer. Giue praise vnto the Lord of Lords, [...]for his mercy endureth for euer. Which onely doth great wonders works, [...]for his mercy endureth for euer.
Psal. 137.
[...] WHen as we sate in Babilon, the riuers round about: [...]And in remembrance of Sion, the teares for griefe [...]burst out. We hangd our Harps & instruments, the willow trees vpon: for [...]in that place men for their vse, had plāted many one. many one. [...]
Psal. 141.
[...] O Lord vpon thee doe I call, Lord hast thee [...]vnto me. And harken Lord vnto my voyce, when [...]I doe cry to thee. As incense, let my prayer be, directed in thine eyes: [Page 39] [...]And the vplifting of my hands, as euening sacrifice. sacrifice. [...]
Psal. 142.
[...] BEfore the Lord God with my voyce, I did send out my [...]cry, I did send out my cry, And with my strayned [...]voyce, vnto the Lord God prayed I. prayed I. My meditation in his sight, My [...]meditation in his sight, to power I did not spare: And in the presence of the [...]Lord, the presence of the Lord, my trouble did declare. my trouble dyd de- [...]clare. my trouble dyd declare.
Psal. 145.
[...] THee will I laud my God & king, & blesse thy [...]name for aye: for euer will I praise thy name, and [...]blesse thee day by day. Great is the Lord most worthie prayse, his greatnesse [...]none can reach: from race to race they shall thy workes prayse, & thy power preach. [...] [...]
Psal. 147.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord, for it is good, vnto our God to sing: [...]for it is pleasant and to prayse, it is a comely thing. The Lord his [Page 41] [...]owne Ierusalem, he buildeth vp alone, and the disperst of Israell, doth [...]gather into one. [...]
Psal. 148.
[...] GIue laud vnto the Lord, from heauen that is so hye: [...]prayse him in deede and word, aboue the Starry skye. [...]And also ye, his Angels all, armies royall, prayse him with glee.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] ATtend my people and giue eare, my people and giue [...]eare, of ferly things I will thee tell: See that my wordes [...]in minde thou beare, my words in minde thou beare, and to my preceptes listen well. [...] [...]
The Lords Prayer.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art, in heauen art, [...]and makst vs all one brotherhood, to call [...]vpon thee with one hart, vpon thee with one hart, our heauenly Father and our [Page 43] [...]God: Graunt we pray not with lips alone, but with the hartes deepe sigh and [...]grone, deepe sigh and grone. [...]
The Creede.
[...] ALL my beliefe and confidence, beliefe and confidence, is [...]in the Lord of might, is in the Lord, the Lord of might: The [...]Father which all things hath made, the day and eke the night, and eke the night. [...]The heauens and the firmament, and also many Star, and also many Star, [...]the earth and all that is therein, which passe mans reason farre. reason farre.
Da pacem Domine.
[...] GIue peace in these our daies O Lord, great dangers are now at [...]hand: great dangers are now at hand: thine enimies with one ac- [...]cord, Christes name in euery land, Christes name in euery land, seeke to deface, roote [...]out and race, thy true right worship in deede: Be thou the stay, be thou the stay, [...]Lord we thee pray, Thou helpst alone in all neede.
The Lamentation.
[...] O Lord in thee is all my trust, giue care vnto my wofull [...]crye: Refuse me not that am vniust, but bowing downe thy [...]heauenly eye: Behold how I doe still lament, my sinnes wherein I doe offend: [Page 45] [...]O Lord for them shall I be shent, fith thee to please I doe entend. [...] [...] [...]
[...] PReserue vs Lord by thy deare word, from [...]Turke and Pope defend vs Lord, de-fend vs Lord: which [...]both would thrust out of his throne, out of his throne, our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare [...]sonne. deere sonne.
A prayer for the Queenes most excellent maiestie.
[...] O Mightie God preserue the throne, pre- [...]serue the throne, preserue the throne, of [...]thy seruant ELIZABETH: of thy [...]seruant ELI-ZABETH, Her royall Scepter, her royall Scepter, & her Crowne, [...]and her Crowne, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay & health, our Pearle, our Ioy, [...]our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay, and [...]health, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health.
THE TABLE.
- COme holy Gost.
- 1
- O Lord of whome I do depend.
- 1
- Wee praise thee God.
- 2
- O all ye workes of God.
- 2
- The onely Lord of Israell.
- 3
- My soule doth magnifie the Lord.
- 4
- O Lord because my harts desire.
- 4
- What man soeuer he be that.
- 5
- O Lord turne not away thy face.
- 6
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 6
- Harke Israell, and what I say.
- 7
- Where righteousnesse doth say.
- 8
| Psalm. | A | Fol. |
| 30 | All laud and prayse. | 14 |
| 78 | Attend my people to my law. | 24 |
| 100 | All people that on earth do dwel. | 26 |
| B | ||
| 81 | Be light and glad. | 24 |
| 119 | Blessed are they. | 30 |
| 134 | Behold and haue regard. | 36 |
| 142 | Before the Lord. | 39 |
| G | ||
| 148 | Giue laud vnto the Lord. | 41 |
| I | ||
| 25 | I lift mine hart to thee. | 13 |
| 25 | An other of the same. | 14 |
| 77 | I with my voyce. | 23 |
| 116 | I loue the Lord. | 29 |
| 120 | In trouble and in thrall. | 30 |
| 121 | I lift mine eyes. | 31 |
| 122 | I did in hart reioyce. | 32 |
| L | ||
| 6 | Lord in thy wrath. | 10 |
| 68 | Let God arise | 21 |
| 72 | Lord giue thy iudgements. | 22 |
| 88 | Lord God of health. | 25 |
| 130 | Lord to thee I make my mone. | 34 |
| M | ||
| 23 | My shepherd is the liuing Lord. | 12 |
| 103 | My soule giue laud. | 26 |
| 104 | My soule prayse the Lord. | 27 |
| N | ||
| 124 | Now Israell may say. | 32 |
| O | ||
| 3 | O Lord how are my foes. | 9 |
| 18 | O God my strength & fortitude. | 11 |
| 21 | O Lord how ioyfull is the king. | 12 |
| 44 | Our eares haue heard. | 16 |
| 51 | O Lord consider my distresse. | 18 |
| 135 | O Prayse the Lord. | 36 |
| 141 | O Lord vpon thee do I call. | 38 |
| P | ||
| 136 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 37 |
| 147 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 40 |
| R | ||
| 61 | Regard (O Lord.) | 20 |
| 132 | Remember Dauids troubles. | 35 |
| S | ||
| 59 | Send ayd & saue me. | 20 |
| 69 | Saue me O God. | 22 |
| 125 | Such as in God the Lord. | 33 |
| T | ||
| 1 | The man is blest. | 8 |
| 14 | There is no God. | 10 |
| 41 | The man is blest that careful is. | 15 |
| 46 | The Lord is our defence. | 16 |
| 50 | The mightie God. | 17 |
| 50 | The God of Gods. | 18 |
| 145 | Thee will I laud. | 40 |
| W | ||
| 52 | Why dost thou tyrant boast. | 19 |
| 111 | With hart I do accord. | 28 |
| 126 | When that the Lord. | 34 |
| 137 | When as we sat in Babilon. | 38 |
| Y | ||
| 113 | Ye children. | 28 |
- Attend my people,
- 42
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 42
- All my beliefe and confidence.
- 43
- Giue peace in these our days.
- 44
- O Lord in thee is all my trust.
- 44
- Preserue vs Lord.
- 45
- O mightie God. Being of 5. parts.
- 46
ALTVS.
The former Booke of the Musicke of M. William Damon, late one of her maiesties Musitions: conteining all the tunes of Dauids Psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the Church: most excellently by him composed into 4. parts. In which Sett the Tenor singeth the Church tune.
Published for the recreation of such as delight in Musicke: By W. Swayne Gent.
Printed by T. Este, the assigné of W. Byrd. 1591.
TO THE RIGH [...] [...] rable, Sir VVilliam C [...] [...]ght, Baron of Burghley, Lord hig [...] [...] of England. William Swayne wisheth long life, and the same to be most healthie and happie.
RIght Honorable my singuler good Lord, there came to my hands of late a booke conteyning all the tunes of the Psalmes, as they are ordinarilie soung in the Church, composed into foure parts by M. William Damon late one of hir Maiesties seruaunts, which booke being found not onely in my poore opinion, but in the riper iudgement of some speciall Musicions to be excellentlie sette, either to serue for voices or instruments: for the great vse that might come thereof, and partlie to preserue the labours of the Auctor, so worthie and skillfull a man in his profession: also to leaue his Religion and pietie herein witnessed, that so carefullie and speciallie laboured to aduaunce the vse of singing the Psalmes: I was earnestlie dealt with all not to deteyne that as a part of my priuate store in Musicke, that of it selfe conteyned matter so worthie publiquelie to enterteyne and to receiue enterteynment. Therefore with their perswasions and reasons, I was brought to publish them for the vse and comfort of all, especially of the godlie. And now right honorable my verie good Lord, calling to minde the dutie, honor, and seruice due by mee vnto your good Lordship, for the great loue and fauour which I haue alwaies receiued at your L. hands. (For I acknowledge my selfe to none more bound then to your honor:) I haue beene the more emboldened to present this simple worke to passe vnder your L. fauour and protection. Wishing that the same may chieflie serue to the glorie & praise of God. And then at your L. pleasure, at some times for the recreation of your minde, after your worthie and great trauayle from day to day taken in the most weightie affaires of this common wealth. And so I commend your good L. to the mercifull keping of thalmightie God.
[...] the Reader.
[...] Reader, M. William Damon one of her Maiesties Musitions, being earnestly requested by a friend of his did at sundry times when he resorted to his friends house compose the tunes of Dauids Psalms as they are ordinarily soung in the Church note for note, intending thē for his friends priuate vse. These Psalmes so set, & made without labour or purpose to publish them, were notwithstanding published by the same friend of M. Damon; which not answering thexpectation that many had of the Auctors skill, gaue him occasion to take vppon him a new labour to recouer the wrong his friend did in publishing that that was so done, as might well please him, but was not purposed or framed for the learned eares of our times. Therefore at his best leisure & fittest times he composed the same tunes againe in so excellent a manner that by comparison of these and the former, the Reader may by triall see that the Auctor could not receiue in his Art such a note of disgrace by his friends ouersight before, but that now the same is taken away, and his worthie knowledge much more graced by this second trauaile. Now to acquaynt thee with the Auctors order in this second woorke, he hath for varietie gone through the Psalmes twice, which are now deuided into two Setts: whereof in the former the ordinarie singing part is caried in the Tenor: In the second set it is conueyed in the highest part. Herein ther is required of the Reader, if he be a louer of Musick, that he would accept of their labour that haue taken paines in publishing exactlie a worke of such singuler skill, and speciall vse for them, that after the serious labour of their calling are desirous rather to recreate them selues in singing of Psalmes▪ then in other exercises of lesse comfort, and euill marke.
Veni Creator.
[...] COme holy Ghost eternal God, proceeding from a- [...]boue, both from the Father and the Sonne, the God of [...]peace & loue, visite our mindes and into vs, & in- to vs thy heauenly grace inspire, [...]that in all truth and godlinesse, and godlinesse we may haue true de- sire.
The humble sute of a sinner.
[...] O Lord of whom I do de- pend, behold my carefull hart, [...]and when thy will and pleasure is, release me of my smart, thou seest my [...]sorrowes what they are my griefe is knowen to thee and there is none that can re- [...]moue or take the same from mee.
Te Deum.
[...] WE praise thee God, we knowledge [...]thee, the onely Lord to be. And [...]as eternal Father all, the earth doth wor- [...]ship thee. To thee all Angells cry, to the all Angells cry, the heauens and all the [...]powers therein: To thee Cherub and Seraphin, to cry they do not linne. to cry they [...]do not linne. [...] [...] [...]
The song of the three Children.
[...] O All ye workes of God the Lord, of God the [...]Lord, blesse ye the Lord, blesse ye the Lord, prayse [...]him and magnifie him for euer. [...]
Benedictus.
[...] THe onely Lord of Israell, be praised euermore: be [...]praysed euer more: For through his vi- si- ta- ti-on [...]and mercy kept in store, his people now he hath redemd, that long hath beene in [...]thrall, and spread a broad his sauing health, vpon his seruants all. vpon his seruants all.
Magnificat.
[...] MY soule doth magnifie the Lord, my spirit eke [...]euermore, reioyceth in the Lord my God which is my sa- [...]uiour. And why because he did regard, and gaue respect vnto, so base es- [...]tate of his handmayd, and let the mightie go. [...]
Nunc dimittis.
[...] O Lord because my harts desire, hath wished [...]long to see: My onelie Lord and Saui- our, thy [...]sonne before I die: The ioy and health of all man- [Page 5] [...]kind de- sired long before, which now is come into the world, of mercie bringing [...]store. bringing store. [...]
Quicunque vult.
[...] WHat man soeuer he be that, what man soeuer he be [...]that salua- ti- on will at- taine: The Catholike be- [...]liefe he must, beliefe he must, before all things re- taine. Which Faith vnlesse he [...]holy keepe, and vndefiledly, and vndefiledly: Without all doubt eternally, without [...]all doubt eternal- ly, he shall be sure to dye.
The Lamentation of a sinner.
[...] O Lord turne not away thy face, away thy face, from [...]him that lyeth prostrate: Lamenting sore, lamenting sore [...]his sinfull lyfe, before thy mercy gate, which gate thou openest wide to [...]those, which gate thou openest wide to those, that do lament their sinne, shut [...]not that gate, shut not that gate against me Lord, but let me enter in. enter in.
The Lords praier.
[...] OVr Father, our Father which in heauen art. Lord hallowed [...]be thy name. Thy kingdome come, Thy kingdome come thy [...]will be done, thy will be done in earth, euen as the same in heauen is. Giue vs O [Page 7] [...]Lord our dayly bread this day, as we forgiue our debters so forgiue our debts we [...]pray. Into temptati- on lead vs not. From euill make vs free: for kingdome [...]power and glory thine, both now and euer be, both now and euer be.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] HArke Israell, and what I say, .ij. & what [...]I say, giue heed to vnderstād: .ij. I am the Lord thy [...]God that brought thee out of Egipt land, of Egipt land. Euen from the house where- [...]in thou didst, wherin thou didst in thraldom liue a slaue, in thraldom liue a slaue. None [...]other Gods at all be- fore, my presence shalt thou haue, ij. shal thou haue.
The complaint of a sinner.
[...] WHere righteousnesse doth say, Lord for my sinnefull [...]part, Lord for my sinfull part, In wrath thou shouldst me pay, [...]vengeance for my desert, I can it not deny, I can it not denie, but needs I must [...]confesse, how that continually thy lawes I do transgresse, how that continual- [...]ly, thy lawes I do transgres, thy lawes I do transgres.
Here beginneth the Psalmes.
Psal. 1.
[...] THe man is blest that hath not bent, that hath not bent [...]to wicked rede his eare, Nor led his life as sinners do, [...]nor sate in scorners chaire: But in the law of God the Lord, of God the [Page 9] [...]Lord, doth set his whole delight, doth set his whole delight, and in that lawe doth ex- [...]ercise doth exercise himselfe both day a [...]d night, both day & night, himselfe both [...]day, both day and night.
Psal. 3.
[...] O Lord how are my foes increst, how are my [...]foes increast, which vex me more & more? they kill my [...]hart when as they say, God can him not restore, God can him not restore. But [...]thou O Lord art my defence, art my defence, when I am hard bestead: my worship [...]and mine honor both, & thou holdst vp my head, holdst vp my head.
Psal. 6. Psal. 14.
[...] LOrd in thy wrath re-proue me not, though I deserue thine [...]ire: Ne yet correct me in thy rage, correct me in thy rage, [...]O Lord I thee desire. For I am weake, for I am weake, therefore, O Lord of mercy [...]me forebeare, and heale me Lord, for why thou knowest, for why thou knowest my [...]bones do quake for feare. do quake for feare.
[...] THere is no God as foolish men, ij. as [...]foolish men affirme in their mad mood: their drifts are all cor- [...]rupt and vaine, corrupt and vaine, not one of them doth good. The Lord beheld from [...]heauen hye, from heauen hye, the whole race, the whole race of mankind: And [Page 11] [...]saw not one, and saw not one that sought in deede, the liuing God to finde.
Psal. 18.
[...] O God my strength and fortitude, O [...]God my strength and for- titude of force I [...]must loue thee: thou art my castle & defence my [...]castle & defence in my necessitie. My God my rocke in whome I trust, in whom I [...]trust, My God my rocke in whome I trust, in whome I trust, the worker of my wealth, [...]of my wealth, my refuge buckler and my shield, my refuge bukler and my [...]shield, the horne of all my health.
Psal. 21.
[...] O Lord how ioyful is the king, how ioyfull [...]is the king, in thy strength and thy power? How [...]vehemently doth he reioyce, doth he reioyce, [...]in thee his Saui- our? For thou hast giuen vnto him, hast giuen vnto him, [...]his godly harts desire: To him nothing hast thou denide, of that he did require. [...]
Psal 23.
[...] MY Sheapheard is the liuing Lord, the liuing Lord, no- [...]thing therefore I neede: In pastures faire, in pastures [Page 13] [...]faire with waters calme, he set me for to feede. he set me for to feede. [...]
Psal. 25.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, mine hart to thee, my [...]God and guide most iust, guide most iust: Now suffer [...]me, now suffer me to take no shame, for in thee doe I trust, doe I trust. Let [...]not my foes reioyce, let not my foes re- ioyce, nor make a scorne of me: And [...]let them not be ouerthrowne, and let them not be ouerthrowne, that put theyr [...]trust in thee.
Psal. 25. An other of the same.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, my God and guide most [...]iust, and guide most iust: Now suffer me to take no [...]shame, to take no shame, for in thee doe I trust. for in thee doe I trust. [...] [...]
Psal. 30
[...] ALL laud and praise with hart and voyce, All [...]laud and praise with hart and voyce, O Lord I giue [...]to thee: which didst not make my foes reioyce, my foes reioyce, but hast ex- [Page 15] [...]alted mee, O Lord my God to thee I cride, in all my paine and griefe, thou [...]gauest an eare, thou gauest an eare and didst prouide, to ease me with re- [...]liefe. with reliefe. [...]
Psal 41.
[...] THe man is blest that carefull is, The man is [...]blest that carefull is, the needy to consider: For [...]in the season perilous, the Lord will him deliuer. The Lord will make him [...]safe and sound, will make him safe and sound, and happy in the land, and happy [...]in the land, and he will not deliuer him, deliuer him, in to his enemies hand.
Psal. 44.
[...] OVr eares haue heard our fathers tell, our [...]fathers tell, & reuerently re- cord: the wondrous [...]works that thou hast done, hast done, that thou hast [...]done in older time O Lord. How thou didst cast the Gentils out, and stroydst them [...]with strong hand, planting our fathers in their place, and gauest to them their [...]land, to them their land.
Psal. 46.
[...] THe Lord is our defence and ayd, the [...]strength whereby we stand, when we with wo are [Page 17] [...]much dismaid, he is our helpe at hand. Though thearth remoue we will not [...]feare, though thearth remoue we will not feare, though hils so high and steepe: [...]be thrust and hurled heere and theere, within the Sea so deepe.
Psal. 50.
[...] THe mightie God, theternall hath thus spoke, theter- [...]nall hath thus spoke, and all the world he will call and pro- [...]uoke, euen from the East, & so foorth to the West, ij. From toward Sion [...]which place him liketh best, him liketh best, God will appeare in beautie most excel- [...]lēt, most excellēt. Our God wil come before y t long time be spent. long time be spent.
Psal. 50. An other of the same.
[...] THe God of Gods the Lord hath cald the earth by [...]name: From where the Sunne, From where the Sunne doth [...]rise, vnto the setting of the same. From Sion his faire place, his faire place, his glo- [...]rie, bright and cleare: The perfect beautie of his grace, from thence it did appeare. [...]
Psal. 51.
[...] O Lord consider my distresse, consider my distresse, and [...]now with speede some pitie take, My sinnes deface, my [...]faults redresse, my faults redresse, good Lord for thy great mercies sake. Wash [Page 19] [...]me (O Lord,) wash me O Lord and make me cleane, from this vniust and sinfull [...]act: and sinfull act: and purifie yet once againe, my hainous crime and bloudy [...]fact. and bloudy fact.
Psal. 52.
[...] WHy doest thou tyrant boast abroad, thy wicked works to [...]praise? thy wicked works to praise? dost thou not know ther [...]is a God, whose mercies last alwaies? Why doth thy minde yet still deuise, such [...]wicked wiles to warpe? Thy tounge vntrue in forging lies, in forging lies, is [...]like a rasour sharpe.
Psal. 59.
[...] SEnd ayd & saue me from my foes, O Lord I pray to [...]thee: Defend & keepe me, Defend and keepe me from all [...]those, that rise and striue with mee. O Lord preserue me frō those men, me frō those [...]men, preserue me from those men, whose doings are not good: And set me sure, & [...]safe from them, that still thirst after bloud. that still thirst after bloud.
Psal. 61.
[...] REgard (O Lord) for I complaine, and make my [...]sute to thee: & make my sute to thee: Let not my words re- [...]turne in vaine, Let not my words returne in vaine, but giue an eare to me. From [Page 21] [...]of the coastes & vtmost parts, frō of the coastes & vtmost parts, of all the earth a- [...]broad: of all the earth abroad: In griefe and anguish of my hart, and anguish [...]of my hart, I cry to thee O God. to thee (O God.)
Psal. 68.
[...] LEt God arise & then his foes, Let God arise & thē his [...]foes, will turne them selues to flight: His enmies then will [...]runne abroad, will run abroad, & scatter out of sight. And as the fire doth melt the [...]wax, doth melt the wax, and winde blow smoke away: so in the presence of the [...]Lord, the presence of the Lord, the wicked shall decay. shall decay.
Psal. 69.
[...] SAue mee O God and that with speede, and that with [...]speed, the waters flow full fast: the waters flow full fast: so [...]ny my soule do they proceed, do they proceed, that I am sore agast. I stick ful deep in [...]filth & clay, wheras I feele no ground, I fall into such flouds I say, that I am like be [...]drownd. that I am like be drownd.
Psal. 72.
[...] LOrd giue thy iudgements to the King, Lord giue thy [...]iudgements to the king, therin instruct him well: instruct him [...]well: And with his sonne, and with his sonne that princely thing, Lord let thy iustice [Page 23] [...]dwell. That he may gouerne vprightly, gouerne vprightly, & rule thy folke aright, & [...]rule thy folke aright, And so defend through equitie, through equitie, the poore that [...]haue no might▪ the poore that haue no might, that haue no might.
Psal. 77.
[...] I With my voice to God do cry, with hart and harty [...]cheare: with hart and harty cheare: My voyce to God, my [...]voyce to God I lift on hie, and he my sute doth heare. In time of griefe I [...]sought to God, I sought to God, by night no rest I tooke: But stretcht my [...]hands to him abroad, to him abroad, my Soule comfort forsooke. comfort forsooke.
Psal. 78.
[...] ATtend my people to my law, and to my words incline: & [...]to my words incline: My mouth shal speake: My mouth shal [...]speake straunge parables, & sentences diuine. Which we our selues haue hard & learnd [...]haue heard and learnd, euen of our fathers old: our fathers old: and which for our [...]instruction, instruction, our fathers haue vs told. haue vs told.
Psal. 81.
[...] BE light and glad, be light and glad in God reioyce, [...]which is our strength and stay: which is our strength and [...]stay: be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce, to Iacobs God I say. Prepare your instru- [Page 25] [...]ments most meete some ioyfull Psalme to sing, strike vp with Harp and [...]Lute so sweete, on euerie pleasant string. [...]
Psal. 88.
[...] LOrd God of health, the hope and stay, the hope and [...]stay, thou art alone to me: I call and cry, I call and cry [...]throughout the day, and all the night to thee. O let my prayers, O let my pray- [...]ers soone ascend, vnto thy sight on hye: Incline thine eare O Lord, entend O [...]Lord, entend and harken to my cry.
Psal. 100.
[...] ALL people that on earth do dwell, that on earth do [...]dwell, sing to the Lord with cherefull voyce, with cherefull [...]voyce. Him serue with feare his praise forth tell, his prayse foorth tell, come ye be- [...]fore him and re- ioyce, come ye before him and reioyce. [...]
Psal. 103.
[...] MY soule giue laud vnto the Lord, my soule giue laud vn- [...]to the Lord, my sprite shall do the same: and all the secrets [...]of my hart, prayse ye his holy name. Giue thankes to God, for all his gifts, for all his [Page 27] [...]giftes, for all his giftes, shew not thy selfe vn- kind, thy selfe vn-kind, and suffer [...]not, and suffer not his benefits, to slip out of thy minde. to slip out of thy minde.
Psal. 104.
[...] MY soule prayse the Lord, my soule prayse the Lord speake good [...]of his name, O Lord our great God how doest thou appeare, so passing in glo- [...]rie that great is thy fame? that great is thy fame? Honor and maiesty in [...]thee shine most cleare, with light as a robe thou hast thee beclad, thou hast thee [...]beclad, whereby all the earth thy greatnesse may see, the heauens in such sort thou [...]also hast spread, that it to a curtaine cōpared may be. cōpared may be. ij.
Psal. 111.
[...] WIth hart I do accord, to praise & laude the Lord, the Lord, to [...]praise & laude the Lord, in presence of the iust. of the iust. For great his works are [...]found, to search them such are bound, ij. as do him loue & trust. [...]loue and trust. His works are glorious, are glorious, his works are glorious, also his [...]righteousnes, ij. it doth endure, for euer. ij. His wōdrous works he wold, [...]we still remember should, his mercy faileth ne- uer. faileth ne- uer. ij.
Psal. 113.
[...] YE children which do serue the Lord, which do serue the Lord, praise [...]ye his name with one accord, with one accord. yea blessed be alwaies his name. Who [Page 29] [...]frō the rising of the Sun, the rising of the Sunne, till it returne wher it be- gun, is [...]to be praised with great fame. The Lord all people doth surmount: as for his [...]glory we may count, aboue the heauens high to be. With God the Lord who [...]may compare, whose dwellings in the heauēs are, ij. of so great [...]power & force is he. & force is he. and force is he.
Psal. 116.
[...] I Loue the Lord because my voyce, & prayer heard hath [...]he: When in my dayes, when in my dayes I cald on him, [...]he bowde his eare to me. ij. his eare to me.
Psal. 119.
[...] BLessed are they that perfect are, & pure in mind & [...]hart: in minde and hart: Whose liues and conuersation, & [...]conuersati- on from Gods lawes neuer start. Blessed are they that giue them [...]selues, his statuts to obserue: Seeking the Lord with all their hart, Seeking the [...]Lord with all their hart, and neuer from him swerue. [...]
Psal. 120.
[...] IN trouble and in thrall, & in thrall, vnto the Lord I [...]call, and he doth me comfort. and he doth me comfort. [Page 31] [...]Deliuer me I say, from liers lips, frō liers lips alway, & tongue of false report. of [...]false re- port. of false report. [...] [...]
Psal. 121.
[...] I Lift mine eyes to Sion hill, to Sion hill, from whence I do at- [...]tend, from whence I doe attend, that succour God me send. The mightie God, me [...]succour will, me succour will, which heauen and earth, & earth framed, and all things [...]therein na- med. and all things therein, therein named.
Psal. 122.
[...] I Did in hart reioyce, to heare the peoples voice, the [...]peoples voice, in offering so willingly: For let vs vp say [...]they, for let vs vp say they, and in the Lordes house pray, thus spake the folke full [...]louingly, full louingly. Our feete that wandred wide, shall in the gates a- bide, [...]O thou Ierusalem full fayre, which art so seemely set, much like a city net, a city [...]net, the like whereof is not else where. is not else where.
Psal. 124.
[...] NOw Israell may say and that truely, and that truely if [...]that the Lord had not our cause maintaind, our cause maintaind [Page 33] [...]if that the Lord had not our right sustaind, when all the world against vs furiously, [...]made their vprores, and said we should all dye. and said we should all dye. [...]
Psal. 125.
[...] SVch as in God y e Lord do trust, such [...]as in God the Lord do trust as [...]mount Sion, shall firmely stand: And [...]be remoued at no hand. The Lord will count them right and iust, so that they [...]shall be sure, so that they shall be sure, for euer to endure. to endure.
Psal. 126
[...] WHen that the Lord, when that the Lord againe his Syon [...]had foorth brought, foorth brought, his Sion had foorth [...]brought, from bondage great, & also seruitude extreme, his worke was such as did sur- [...]mount, as did surmount mans hart and thought, so that we were, much like to [...]them that vse to dreame. Our mouthes, our mouthes were with laughter filled then, [...]and eke our tongues did shew vs ioyfull men.
Psal. 130.
[...] LOrd to thee I make my mone, Lord to thee I make my [...]mone, when daungers me oppresse, me oppresse, I call I [Page 35] [...]sigh plaine & grone, trusting to finde release. to finde re- lease. Heare now O [...]Lord my request, O Lord my request, for it is ful due time: And let thine eares aye [...]be prest, vnto this prayer, prayer mine. vnto this prayer mine. this prayer mine.
Psal. 132.
[...] REmember Dauids troubles Lord, troubles Lord, how [...]to the Lord he swore, and vowd a vow to Iacobs God, to [...]Iacobs God to keepe for e- uer more. I will not come within my house, nor [...]clime vp to my bed, vp to my bed, nor let my temples, my temples take their rest, or [...]the eyes in my head. or the eyes in my head.
Psal. 134.
[...] BEhold and haue regard, Behold & haue regard, and [...]haue regard, ye seruants of the Lord, Which in his [...]house, which in his house by night doe watch, by night do watch, prayse him with [...]one accord. prayse him with one accord.
Psal. 135.
[...] O Praise the Lord, praise him, praise him, praise him praise [...]him, prayse him with one ac- cord. O prayse him still [...]O prayse him still all ye that be the seruants of the Lord. O praise him ye that [...]stand and be in the house of the Lord: in the house of the Lord: Ye of his court [Page 37] [...]and of his house, and of his house, prayse him with one accord. praise him with [...]one accord.
Psal. 136.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord for he is good, for he is good, prayse [...]ye the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for [...]euer for euer. Giue prayse vnto the God of Gods, vnto the God of Gods, for his [...]mercy endureth for euer. Giue praise vnto the Lord of Lords, the Lord of Lords, [...]for his mercy endureth for euer. for euer. Which onely doth great wonders [...]works, which onely doth great wonders works, for his mercy endureth for euer.
Psal. 145.
[...] THee will I laud my God and king, my God [...]and king, & blesse thy name for aye: for euer will I [...]praise thy name, and blesse thee day by day, blesse thee day by day. Great is the [...]Lord most worthie prayse, his greatnesse none can reach: his greatnesse none can [...]reach, from race to race they shall thy workes, they shall thy workes prayse, and thy [...]power preach.
Psal. 147.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord, for it is good, prayse ye the Lord, for it is [...]good, vnto our God to sing, vn- to our God to sing: for it is pleasant, [Page 41] [...]and to prayse, it is a comelie thing: The Lord his owne Ierusalem, he buildeth vp a- [...]lone, and the disperst of Israell, and the disperst of Isra- ell, doth gather into [...]one doth gather into one.
Psal. 148.
[...] GIue laud vnto the Lord, vnto y e Lord, from heauen that [...]is so hye: prayse him in deede and word, prayse him in [...]deede and word, aboue the Starry skye, the Starry skye. And also ye, and also ye [...]his Angels all, armies royall, armies royall, prayse him with glee.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] ATtend my people and giue eare, my people and giue [...]eare, of ferly things I will thee tell, I will thee tell: See [...]that my wordes, see that my words in minde thou beare, and to my precepts listen [...]well. and to my preceptes listen well.
The Lords Prayer.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art, which in heauen [...]art, & makst vs all one brotherhood, to call vp-on thee [...]with one hart, vppon thee with one hart, our heauenly Father and our God, our [...]heauenly Father and our God, & our God: Graūt we pray not, graūt we pray not with [Page 43] [...]lips alone, but with the hartes deepe sigh and grone, deepe sigh and grone. [...]
The Creede.
[...] ALL my beliefe and confidence, all my beliefe and confi- [...]dence, and confidence, is in the Lord of might, is in the Lord of [...]might: The Father which, the Father which all things hath made, the day and [...]eke the night, & eke the night. The heauens & the firmamēt, the heauens & the [...]firmament, and also many Star, and also many Star, the earth and all that is there- [...]in, which passe mans reason farre. which passe mans reason farre. reason farre.
Da pacem Domine.
[...] GIue peace in these our dayes O Lord, in these our dayes O [...]Lord, in these our dayes O Lord, great dangers are now at hand: [...]great dangers are now at hand: thine enimies with one accord, with one accord, [...]Christes name in euery land, Christes name in euery land, seeke to deface, roote out & [...]race, roote out & race, the true right worship in deede: Be thou the stay, Lord we thee [...]pray: Thou helpst alone in all neede. alone in all neede.
The Lamentation. The church tune.
[...] O Lord in thee is all my trust, giue eare vnto my wofull [...]crye: Refuse me not that am vniust, but bowing downe thy [Page 45] [...]heauenly eye: Behold how I doe still lament, my sinnes wherein I doe offend: [...]O Lord for them shall I be shent, sith thee to please I doe entend. [...] [...]
[...] PReserue vs Lord by thy deare word, by thy deare word, [...]from Turke and Pope, from Turke and Pope defend [...]Lord: which both would thrust out of his throne, our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare [...]sonne. our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne.
A prayer for the Queenes most excellent maiestie.
[...] O Mightie God preserue the throne, [...]preserue the throne, preserue the throne, [...]of thy seruant ELIZABETH: [...]ELIZABETH, Her royall Scepter, her royall Scepter, and her Crowne, [...]our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health, our stay & health, our Pearle, our Ioy, [...]our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay, and health, our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and [...]health. our Pearle, our Ioy, our stay and health.
THE TABLE.
- COme holy Gost.
- 1
- O Lord of whome I do depend.
- 1
- Wee praise thee God.
- 2
- O all ye workes of God.
- 2
- The onely Lord of Israell.
- 3
- My soule doth magnifie the Lord.
- 4
- O Lord because my harts desire.
- 4
- What man soeuer he be that.
- 5
- O Lord turne not away thy face.
- 6
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 6
- Harke Israell, and what I say.
- 7
- Where righteousnesse doth say.
- 8
| Psalm. | A | Fol. |
| 30 | All laud and prayse. | 14 |
| 78 | Attend my people to my law. | 24 |
| 100 | All people that on earth do dwel. | 26 |
| B | ||
| 81 | Be light and glad. | 24 |
| 119 | Blessed are they. | 30 |
| 134 | Behold and haue regard. | 36 |
| 142 | Before the Lord. | 39 |
| G | ||
| 148 | Giue laud vnto the Lord. | 41 |
| I | ||
| 25 | I lift mine hart to thee. | 13 |
| 25 | An other of the same. | 14 |
| 77 | I with my voyce. | 23 |
| 116 | I loue the Lord. | 29 |
| 120 | In trouble and in thrall. | 30 |
| 121 | I lift mine eyes. | 31 |
| 122 | I did in hart reioyce. | 32 |
| L | ||
| 6 | Lord in thy wrath. | 10 |
| 68 | Let God arise | 21 |
| 72 | Lord giue thy iudgements. | 22 |
| 88 | Lord God of health. | 25 |
| 130 | Lord to thee I make my mone. | 34 |
| M | ||
| 23 | My shepherd is the liuing Lord. | 12 |
| 103 | My soule giue laud. | 26 |
| 104 | My soule prayse the Lord. | 27 |
| N | ||
| 124 | Now Israell may say. | 32 |
| O | ||
| 3 | O Lord how are my foes. | 9 |
| 18 | O God my strength & fortitude. | 11 |
| 21 | O Lord how ioyfull is the king. | 12 |
| 44 | Our eares haue heard. | 16 |
| 51 | O Lord consider my distresse. | 18 |
| 135 | O Prayse the Lord. | 36 |
| 141 | O Lord vpon thee do I call. | 38 |
| P | ||
| 136 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 37 |
| 147 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 40 |
| R | ||
| 61 | Regard (O Lord.) | 20 |
| 132 | Remember Dauids troubl [...] ▪ | 35 |
| S | ||
| 59 | Send ayd & saue me. | 20 |
| 69 | Saue me O God. | 22 |
| 125 | Such as in God the Lord. | 33 |
| T | ||
| 1 | The man is blest. | 8 |
| 14 | There is no God. | 10 |
| 41 | The man is blest that careful is. | 15 |
| 46 | The Lord is our defence. | 16 |
| 50 | The mightie God. | 17 |
| 50 | The God of Gods. | 18 |
| 145 | Thee will I laud. | 40 |
| W | ||
| 52 | Why dost thou tyrant boast. | 19 |
| 111 | With hart I do accord. | 28 |
| 126 | When that the Lord. | 34 |
| 137 | When as we sat in Babilon. | 38 |
| Y | ||
| 113 | Ye children. | 28 |
- Attend my people,
- 42
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 42
- All my beliefe and confidence.
- 43
- Giue peace in these our days.
- 44
- O Lord in thee is all my trust.
- 44
- Preserue vs Lord.
- 45
- O mightie God. Being of 5. parts.
- 46
BASSVS.
The former Booke of the Musicke of M. William Damon, late one of her maiesties Musitions: conteining all the tunes of Dauids Psalmes, as they are ordinarily soung in the Church: most excellently by him composed into 4. parts. In which Sett the Tenor singeth the Church tune.
Published for the recreation of such as delight in Musicke: By W. Swayne Gent.
Printed by T. Este, the assigné of W. Byrd. 1591.
TO THE RIGHT HONOrable, Sir VVilliam Cecill Knight, Baron of Burghley, Lord high Treasorer of England. William Swayne wisheth long life, and the same to be most healthie and happie.
RIght Honorable my singuler good Lord, there came to my hands of late a booke conteyning all the tunes of the Psalmes, as they are ordinarilie soung in the Church, composed into foure parts by M. William Damon late one of hir Maiesties seruaunts, which booke being found not onely in my poore opinion, but in the riper iudgement of some speciall Musicions to be excellentlie sette, either to serue for [...]oices or instruments: for the great vse that might come thereof, and partlie to preserue the labours of the Auctor, so worthie and skillfull a man in his profession: also to leaue his Religion and pietie herein witnessed, that so carefullie and speciallie laboured to aduaunce the vse of singing the Psalmes: I was earnestlie dealt with all not to deteyne that as a part of my priuate store in Musicke, that of it selfe conteyned matter so worthie publiquelie to enterteyne and to receiue enterteynment. Therefore with their perswasions and reasons, I was brought to publish them for the vse and comfort of all, especially of the godlie. And now right honorable my verie good Lord, calling to minde the dutie, honor, and seruice due by mee vnto your good Lordship, for the great loue and fauour which I haue alwaies receiued at your L. hands. (For I acknowledge my selfe to none more bound then to your honor:) I haue beene the more emboldened to present this simple worke to passe vnder your L. fauour and protection. Wishing that the same may chieflie serue to the glorie & praise of God. And then at your L. pleasure, at some times for the recreation of your minde, after your worthie and great trauayle from day to day taken in the most weightie affaires of this common wealth. And so I commend your good L. to the mercifull keping of thalmightie God.
To the Reader.
HEretofore gentle Reader, M. William Damon one of her Maiesties Musitions, being earnestly requested by a friend of his did at sundry times when he resorted to his friends house compose the tunes of Dauids Psalms as they are ordinarily soung in the Church note for note, intending thē for his friends priuate vse. These Psalmes so set, & made without labour or purpose to publish them, were notwithstanding published by the same friend of M. Damon; which not answering thexpectation that many had of the Auctors skill, gaue him occasion to take vppon him a new labour to recouer the wrong his friend did in publishing that that was so done, as might well please him, but was not purposed or framed for the learned eares of our times. Therefore at his best leisure & fittest times he composed the same tunes againe in so excellent a manner that by comparison of these and the former, the Reader may by triall see that the Auctor could not receiue in his Art such a note of disgrace by his friends ouersight before, but that now the same is taken away, and his worthie knowledge much more graced by this second trauaile. Now to acquaynt thee with the Auctors order in this second woorke, he hath for varietie gone through the Psalmes twice, which are now deuided into two Setts: whereof in the former the ordinarie singing part is caried in the Tenor: In the second set it is conueyed in the highest part. Herein ther is required of the Reader, if he be a louer of Musick, that he would accept of their labour that haue taken paines in publishing exactlie a worke of such singuler skill, and speciall vse for them, that after the serious labour of their calling are desirous rather to recreate them selues in singing of Psalmes, then in other exercises of lesse comfort, and euill marke.
Veni Creator.
[...] COme ho- ly Ghost eternal God, proceeding from aboue, [...]both from the Father and the Sonne, the God of peace [...]and loue, visite our mindes and into vs, and into vs, thy heauenly grace inspire, [...]that in all truth and godlinesse, we may haue true desire.
The humble sute of a sinner.
[...] O Lord of whom I do depend, behold my carefull hart, and [...]when thy will & pleasure is, release me of my smart, thou seest my sorrowes what they [...]are my griefe is knowen to thee, and ther is none that can remoue or take the [...]same from mee.
Te Deum.
[...] WE praise thee God, we knowledge [...]thee, the onely Lord to be. And as eternall Father [...]all the earth doth worship thee. To thee all Angels cry, the heauens & [...]all the powers therein: To thee Cherub and Seraphin, to cry they do not linne.
The song of the three Children.
[...] O All ye workes of God the Lord, blesse [...]ye the Lord, blesse ye the Lord, prayse him [...]and magnifie him for euer. [...]
Benedictus.
[...] THe onelie Lord of Israell, be praised euer- [...]more: For through his vi- si- ta- ti-on and mercy [...]kept in store, his people now he hath redemd, that long hath beene in thrall, [...]and spread abroad his sauing health, vpon hi [...] seruants [...]ll. [...] [...] [...] [...]
Magnificat.
[...] MY soule doth magnifie the Lord, my spirit eke [...]euermore, reioyceth in the Lord my God which is my [...]sauiour. And why because he did regard, & gaue respect vnto, so base estate of [...]his handmayd, and let the mightie go.
Nunc dimittis.
[...] O Lord because my harts desire, hath wished long to [...]see: My onelie Lord and Sauiour, thy sonne before I die: [...]The ioy and health of all mankind desired long before, which now is [...]come into the world, of mercie bringing store.
Quicunque vult.
[...] WHat man soeuer he be that sal- uation [...]will attaine: The catholike, the catholike beliefe he [...]must be- fore all things retaine. Which Faith vnlesse he holy keepe he [...]holy keepe, he holy keepe, and vndefiledly: Without all doubt eter- [...]nally he shall be sure to dye. [...] [...] [...] [...]
The Lamentation of a sinner.
[...] O Lord turne not away thy face, from him that [...]lyeth prostrate: Lamenting sore, lamenting sore his sinfull [...]lyfe, before thy mercy gate, before thy mercy gate, which gate thou openest [...]wide to those, thou openest wide to those that do lament their sinne, their [...]sinne, shut not that gate against me Lord, but let me enter in, but let me enter in.
The Lords praier.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art. Lord hallowed be [...]thy name. Thy kingdome come, thy kingdome come, thy [...]will be done in earth euen as the same in heauen is. Giue vs O [Page 7] [...]Lord our dayly bread this day, as we forgiue our detters so, forgiue our [...]debts we pray. Into temptation lead vs not. From euill make vs free: for kingdome [...]power and glory thine, both now and euer be, both now and euer be.
The X. Commaundements.
[...] HArke Israell, and what I say, and what I say, giue heed to [...]vnderstand: giue heed to vnderstand, I am the Lord thy [...]God that brought thee out of Egipt land. Euen from the house wherein thou didst [...]Euen from the house wherein thou didst in thraldom liue a slaue. None other Gods at [...]all before, at all before my presence shalt thou haue my presence shalt thou haue.
The complaint of a sinner.
[...] WHere righteousnesse, where righteous- nesse doth [...]say, Lord for my sinnefull part, Lord for my sinnefull part, [...]In wrath thou shouldst me pay, vengeance for my desert, I can it not deny, but [...]needes I must confesse, but needes I must confesse, how that con- tinually, [...]how that continually, thy lawes I do transgres, thy lawes I do transgres.
Here beginneth the Psalmes.
Psal. 1.
[...] THe man is blest that hath not bent, to wicked [...]rede his eare, Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sate in [...]scorners chaire: But in the law of God the Lord, of God the Lord, doth set his [Page 9] [...]whole delight, doth set his whole delight, and in that lawe doth exercise him- [...]selfe both day and night, himselfe both day and night.
Psal. 3.
[...] O Lord how are my foes increast how [...]are my foes increast, which vex me more & [...]more? they kill my hart when as they say, [...]God can him not restore. But thou O Lord art my defence, when I am [...]hard bestead: my worship and mine honor both, and thou holdst vp my [...]head. and thou holdst vp my head.
Psalme. 6.
[...] LORD in thy wrath reproue me not, reproue me not, [...]though I deserue thine ire: Ne yet correct mee in thy rage, O [...]Lord, I thee desire, I thee desire. For I am weake, therfore O Lord of mercy [...]me forbeare, and heale me Lord, for why? thou know'st, my bones do quake for feare. [...]my bones do quake for feare.
Psal. 14.
[...] THere is no God as foolish men, as foolish men af- [...]firme in their mad moode, affirme in their mad moode: [...]their driftes are all corupt and vaine, corupt and vaine, not one of them doth good. [Page 11] [...]The Lord beheld from heauen hye, from heauen hye, the whole race, the whole race [...]of mankinde: And saw not one, and saw not one that sought in deede the liuing [...]God to finde.
Psal. 18.
[...] O God my strēgth & fortitude, & fortitude, of [...]force I must loue thee: thou art my castle and de- [...]fence, my castle and defence, in my necessitie▪ My God my rocke, My God my [...]rocke in whome I trust, My God my rocke, my rocke, in whome I trust, the worker [...]of my wealth, My refuge buckler & my shield, buck: &c. the horne of all my health.
Psal. 21.
[...] O Lord how ioyfull is the king, O Lord how ioyful [...]is the king, in thy strength & thy power? How vehemēt- [...]ly doth he reioyce, doth he reioyce, in thee his Sauiour? For thou hast giuen vnto [...]him, his godly harts desire: To him no- thing hast thou denide, hast thou de- [...]nide of that he did require. [...]
Psal. 23.
[...] MY Sheapheard is the liuing Lord, the liuing Lord, no- [...]thing therefore I neede, therefore I neede: In pastures [Page 13] [...]faire, in pastures faire with waters calme he set me for to feede. he set me [...]for to feede. [...]
Psal. 25.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, my God and guide most [...]iust: Now suffer me to take no shame, to take no [...]shame, for in thee doe I trust, doe I trust. Let not my foes reioyce, [...]nor make a scorne of mee: and let them not and let them not be ouer- [...]throwne, that put their trust in thee.
Psal. 25. An other of the same.
[...] I Lift mine hart to thee, mine hart to thee, my [...]God and guide most iust: Now suffer me to take no [...]shame, to take no shame, for in thee doe I trust, for in the doe I trust. [...] [...]
Psal. 30
[...] ALL laud and praise with hart and voyce, with [...]hart and voyce, O Lord I giue to thee, I giue to [...]thee: which didst not make my foes reioyce, my foes reioyce, but hast ex- [Page 15] [...]alted me: O Lord my God to thee I cride, in all my paine and griefe, [...]thou gauest an eare and didst prouide, to ease me with reliefe. [...]
Psal. 41.
[...] THe man is blest that careful is, that carefull is, the [...]needy, the needy to consider: For in the season peri- [...]lous, the Lord will him deliuer. The Lord will [...] him safe and sound, [...]and happy in the land, and happy in the land, and he will not de- li- uer [...]him, deliuer him, in to his enemies hand,
Psal 44.
[...] OVr eares haue heard our fathers tell, our fathers tell, [...]and reuerently record: the wondrous workes that thou hast [...]done, that thou hast done, in older time O Lord, How thou didst cast the gentils [...]out, and stroydst them with strong hand, Planting our fathers in their place and [...]gauest to them their land. and gauest to them their land. [...]
Psal. 46. The Church tune.
[...] THe Lord is our defence and ayd, the [...]strength whereby we stand, when we with wo are [Page 17] [...]much dismaid, he is our helpe at hand. Though thearth remoue we will not feare, [...]though hils so high and steepe. Be thrust and hurled here and there with- [...]in the Sea so deepe.
Psal. 50.
[...] THe mightie God, theternall hath thus spoke, and [...]all the world he will call and prouoke euen from the [...]East, and so foorth to the West, and so foorth to the West. From toward Sion which [...]place him liketh best, which place him liketh best, God will appeare in beauty most [...]excellēt. Our God wil come before y e long time be spent▪ that long time be spent.
Psal. 50. An other of the same.
[...] THe God of Gods the Lord hath cald the earth, hath [...]cald the earth by name: From where the Sunne doth [...]rise, vnto the setting of the same. From Sion, from Sion his faire place, his glo- [...]rie bright and cleare: The perfect beautie of his grace, beautie of his grace, from [...]thence it did appeare.
Psal 51.
[...] O Lord consider my distresse, and now with [...]speede some pitie take, My sinnes deface, my faults redresse, [...]good Lord for thy great mercies sake, great mercies sake. Wash me (O [Page 19] [...]Lord) wash me O Lord, and make me cleane, & make me cleane, from this vn- [...]iust and sinnfull act: and purifie yet once againe, my hainous crime my [...]hainous crime and bloudy fact.
Psal. 52.
[...] WHy doost thou tyrant boast abroad, thy wicked [...]workes to praise? doest thou not know there is a God, whose [...]mercies last alwaies? Why doth thy minde yet still deuise, yet still deuise, such [...]wicked wiles to warpe? Thy tounge vntrue in forging lies, in forging lies, is [...]like a rasour sharpe.
Psal. 59.
[...] SEnd ayd & saue me from my foes, & saue me from my [...]foes, O Lord I pray to thee: Defend & keepe, De- [...]fend and keepe me from all those, that rise and striue with mee. O Lord pre- [...]serue me from those men, whose doings are not good: And set me sure & [...]safe from them that still thirst after bloud, that still thirst after bloud. [...]
Psal. 61.
[...] REgard (O Lord) for I complaine, and make my [...]sute to thee: Let not my words, Let not my words re- [Page 21] [...]turne in vaine, but giue an eare to mee. From of the coastes & vtmost parts, & [...]vtmost parts, of all the earth abroad: In griefe and anguish of my hart, [...]and anguish of my hart, I cry to thee (O God.)
Psal. 68.
[...] LEt God arise and then his foes, Let God arise and [...]then his foes, will turne thē selues to flight: His enmies [...]then will runne a broad, will run abroad, and scatter out of sight. And as the [...]fire doth melt the waxe, doth melt the waxe, and winde blow smoke away: So [...]in the presence of the Lord, the wicked shall decay. the wicked shall decay.
Psal. 69.
[...] SAue me O God and that with speede, & that with [...]speed, the waters flow full fast: so ny my soule do they pro- [...]ceed, do they proceed, that I am sore agast. I stick full deep in filth & clay, in [...]filth & clay, whereas I feele no ground, I fall into such flouds I say, that I am [...]like be drownd. that I am like be drownd.
Psal. 72.
[...] LORD giue thy iudgements to the King, therein in- [...]struct him well: instruct him well: And with his sonne that [...]princely thing, Lord let thy iustice dwell. That he may gouerne vprightly, and [Page 23] [...]rule thy folke aright: & rule thy folke a right: & so defend through equitie through [...]equitie, the poore that haue no might. the poore that haue no might. [...]
Psal. 77.
[...] I With my voice to God do cry, to God do cry, with [...]hart and harty cheare: with hart and hartie cheare: [...]My voyce to God I lift on hie, and he my sute doth heare. In time of griefe [...]I sought to God, I sought to God, by night no rest I tooke: But stretcht my [...]hands to him abroad, my soule comfort forsooke. comfort forsooke.
Psal▪ 78.
[...] ATtend my people to my lawe, and to my words in- [...]cline My mouth shall speake straūge parables, straūge para- [...]bles and sentences diuine. Which we our selues haue hard and learnd. euen [...]of our fathers old: and which for our instruction, instruction, our fathers haue vs told. [...]
Psal. 81.
[...] BE light and glad, be light and glad in God reioyce, [...]which is our strength and stay: which is our strength and [...]stay: Be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce, to Iacobs God I say. Prepare your instru- [Page 25] [...]ments most meete, some ioyfull Psalme to sing, strike vp with Harp and Lute so [...]sweete, on euerie pleasant string. [...] [...]
Psal. 88.
[...] LOrd God of health, the hope and stay, thou [...]art alone to me: I call & cry throughout the day, through- [...]out the day, and all the night to thee. O let my prayers soone ascend, vnto thy [...]sight on hye: Incline thine eare O Lord, entend and harken to my cry.
Psal. 100.
[...] ALL people that on earth do dwell, on earth do dwel, [...]sing to the Lord with cherefull voyce, with cherefull [...]voice. Him serue with feare his praise forth tell, his prayse foorth tell, come [...]ye before him and reioyce, come ye before him and reioyce. and reioyce.
Psal. 103.
[...] MY soule giue laud vnto the Lord, my sprite shal [...]do the same, my spirite shall do the same: and [...]all the secrets of my hart, prayse ye his holy name. Giue thankes to God, for [...]all his gifts, for all his giftes, shew not thy selfe vnkind, thy selfe vnkind, and [Page 27] [...]suffer not his benefits, to slip out of thy minde. to slip out of thy minde. [...]
Psal. 104.
[...] MY soule prayse the Lord, speake good of his name, O [...]Lord our great God how doest thou appeare, how doest [...]thou appeare, so passing in glorie that great is thy fame? that great is thy fame? [...]Honor and maiesty in thee shine most cleare, with light as a robe thou hast thee be- [...]clad, whereby all the earth thy greatnesse may see, the heauens in such sort thou [...]also hast spread, that it to a curtaine, compared may be. com-pared may be.
Psal. 111.
[...] WIth hart I do accord, to praise & laude y e Lord, in presence of the [...]iust. in presence of the iust. For great his works are found, to search thē such are [...]bound, as do him loue & trust. ij. His works are glorious, also his [...]righteousnes, ij. also his righteousnes, it doth endure for e- uer. en- [...]dure for euer. His wondrous works he would, we still remember should, his mercy [...]faileth neuer. his mercy faileth neuer.
Psal. 113.
[...] YE children which do serue the Lord, which doe serue the Lord. [...]praise ye his name with one accord, yea blessed be alwaies his name Who frō the [Page 29] [...]rising of the Sun, of the Sunne, till it returne wher it begun, is to be praised [...]with great fame. The Lord all people doth surmount: as for his glory we may [...]count, aboue the heauens high to be. With God the Lord who may compare, [...]whose dwellings in the heauens are, of so great power & force is he. of so great [...]power and force is he.
Psal. 116.
[...] I Loue y e Lord because my voyce, because my voyce & [...]prayer heard hath he: When in my dayes, when in my [...]dayes I cald on him, he bowde his eare to me. he bowde his eare to me.
Psal. 119.
[...] BLessed are they that perfect are, that perfect are, & [...]pure in mind & hart: in minde & hart: Whose liues & [...]conuersation, from Gods lawes neuer start. Blessed are they that giue them selues, [...]his statuts to obserue: Seeking the Lord with all their hart, seeking the Lord [...]with all their hart, and neuer from him swerue. [...]
Psal. 120.
[...] IN trouble and in thrall, vnto the Lord I call, and [...]he doth me comfort. Deliuer me I saye, from liers [Page 31] [...]lips alway, from liers lips alway, and tongue of false report. and tongue of [...]false report. of false report. [...] [...]
Psal. 121.
[...] I Lift mine eyes to Sion hill, from whence I do [...]attēd, that succour God me send. The mightie God, me [...]succour will, me succour will, which heauen & earth framed, and earth framed, [...]and all things therein named. therein named.
Psal. 134.
[...] BEhold and haue regard, Behold and haue regard, [...]ye seruants of the Lord: Which in his house, which [...]in his house by night doe watch, by night doe watch, prayse him with one ac- [...]cord. prayse him with one accord. [...]
Psal. 135.
[...] O Prayse the Lord, prayse him, prayse him, prayse [...]him with one accord. O prayse him still all ye. that be [...]the seruants of the Lord. O praise him ye that stand and be in the house [Page 37] [...]of the Lord: in the house of the Lord: Ye of his court and of his house, and [...]of his house, prayse him with one accord. prayse him with one accord. [...]
Psal. 136.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord for he is good, for he is good [...]for his mercy endureth for euer, for euer. Giue prayse vnto, [...]Giue prayse vnto the God of Gods, for his mercy endureth for euer. Giue praise [...]vnto y e Lord of Lords, vnto y e Lord of Lords, for his mercy endureth for euer. for [...]euer. Which onely doth great wonders works, for his mercy endureth for euer.
Psal. 137.
[...] WHen as we sate in Babilon, the riuers round about: [...]And in remembrance of Sion, remembrance of Sion, the [...]teares for griefe burst out. We hangd our Harps & instruments, & instruments the [...]willow trees vpon: for in that place men for their vse, men for their vse, had plāted [...]many one. had planted [...]ny one, many one.
Psal. 141.
[...] O Lord vpon thee doe I call▪ vpon thee doe I [...]call, Lord hast thee vnto me. hast thee vnto me. And [...]harken Lord vnto my voyce, when I doe cry to thee As incense, let my prayer [Page 39] [...]be directed in thine eyes: And the vplifting of my hands, vplifting of my [...]hands, as euening sacrifice. as euening sacrifice. [...]
Psal. 142.
[...] BEfore the Lord God with my voyce, I did send out my [...]cry: And with my strayned voyce, vnto the Lord God [...]prayed I. prayed I. My meditation in his sight, My meditation in his sight, to power [...]I did not spare: And in the presence of the Lord, And in the presence of the Lord, [...]my trouble did declare. ij my trouble dyd declare.
Psal. 145.
[...] THee will I laud my God and king, and [...]blesse thy name for aye: for euer will I praise thy [...]name, and blesse thee day by day. Great is the Lord most worthie prayse, his [...]greatnesse none can reach, his greatnesse none can reach: from race to race [...]they shall thy workes prayse, and thy power preach. [...]
Psal. 147.
[...] PRayse ye the Lord, for it is good, vnto our God to sing vn- [...]to our God to sing, for it is pleasant and to prayse, it is a [Page 41] [...]comely thing. The Lord his owne Ierusalem, he buildeth vp alone, and [...]the disperst of Israell, and the disperst of Israell, doth gather into one. doth [...]gather into one.
Psal. 148.
[...] GIue laud vnto the Lord, from heauen that is so [...]hye, prayse him in deede and word, a- boue the starry [...]skye, the starry skye. And also ye, and also ye, his Angels all armies royall, [...]prayse him with glee, prayse him with glee.
The X Commaundements.
[...] ATtend my people and giue eare, my people and giue eare, [...]of ferly things I will thee tell, I will thee tell: See that my [...]words in minde thou beare, and to my precepts listen well. my precepts listen well. [...] [...]
The Lords Prayer.
[...] OVr Father which in heauen art, & makest vs [...]all one brotherhood. to call vpon thee with one [...]hart, vpon thee with one hart, our heauenly Father and our God, our heauenly [Page 43] [...]Father and our God: Graunt we pray not with lips alone, but with the hartes, [...]but with the hartes deepe sigh and grone. [...]
The Creede.
[...] ALL my beliefe and confidence, all my beliefe and confi- [...]dence, is in the Lord of might: The Father which all things hath [...]made, the day and eke the night. The heauens and the firmament, & the firma- [...]ment, and also many Star, the earth and all that is therein, which passe mans [...]reason farre. which passe mans reason farre.
Da pacem Domine.
[...] GIue peace in these our daies O Lord, our dayes O Lord, [...]great dangers are now at hand: are now at hand: thine enimies with [...]one accord, Christes name in euery land, seeke to deface, roote out and race, root [...]out and race, the true right worship in deede, be thou the stay, Lord we thee [...]pray, thou helpest alone in all neede. thou helpest alone in all neede. [...]
The Lamentation.
[...] O Lord in thee is all my trust, giue eare vnto my [...]woefull crye: Refuse me not that am vniust, but bowing [Page 45] [...]downe thy heauenly eye: Behold how I doe still lament, my sinnes wherein I doe [...]offend, O Lord for them shall I be shent, sith thee to please I doe entend. [...] [...]
[...] PReserue vs Lord by thy deere word, by thy deare [...]word, from Turke and Pope, defend vs Lord, which both [...]would thurst out of his throne, out of his throne, our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare [...]sonne. our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne.
A prayer for the Queenes most excellent maiestie.
[...] O Mightie God preserue the throne pre- [...]serue the throne, of thy seruant ELIZA- [...]BETH, Her royall Scepter, her royall [...]Scepter and her Crowne, our Pearle our Ioy, our stay and health. our Pearle [...]our Ioy, our stay and health. our Pearle our Ioy, our Pearle our Ioy, our stay & [...]health. our stay and health. [...]
THE TABLE.
- COme holy Gost.
- 1
- O Lord of whome I do depend.
- 1
- Wee praise thee God.
- 2
- O all ye workes of God.
- 2
- The onely Lord of Israell.
- 3
- My soule doth magnifie the Lord.
- 4
- O Lord because my harts desire.
- 4
- What man soeuer he be that.
- 5
- O Lord turne not away thy face.
- 6
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 6
- Harke Israell, and what I say.
- 7
- Where righteousnesse doth say.
- 8
| Psalm. | A | Fol. |
| 30 | All laud and prayse. | 14 |
| 78 | Attend my people to my law. | 24 |
| 100 | All people that on earth do dwel. | 26 |
| B | ||
| 81 | Be light and glad. | 24 |
| 119 | Blessed are they. | 30 |
| 134 | Behold and haue regard. | 36 |
| 142 | Before the Lord. | 39 |
| G | ||
| 148 | Giue laud vnto the Lord. | 41 |
| I | ||
| 25 | I lift mine hart to thee. | 13 |
| 25 | An other of the same. | 14 |
| 77 | I with my voyce. | 23 |
| 116 | I loue the Lord. | 29 |
| 120 | In trouble and in thrall. | 30 |
| 121 | I lift mine eyes. | 31 |
| 122 | I did in hart reioyce. | 32 |
| L | ||
| 6 | Lord in thy wrath. | 10 |
| 68 | Let God arise | 21 |
| 72 | Lord giue thy iudgements. | 22 |
| 88 | Lord God of health. | 25 |
| 130 | Lord to thee I make my mone. | 34 |
| M | ||
| 23 | My shepherd is the liuing Lord. | 12 |
| 103 | My soule giue laud. | 26 |
| 104 | My soule prayse the Lord. | 27 |
| N | ||
| 124 | Now Israell may say. | 32 |
| O | ||
| 3 | O Lord how are my foes. | 9 |
| 18 | O God my strength & fortitude. | 11 |
| 21 | O Lord how ioyfull is the king. | 12 |
| 44 | Our eares haue heard. | 16 |
| 51 | O Lord consider my distresse. | 18 |
| 135 | O Prayse the Lord. | 36 |
| 141 | O Lord vpon thee do I call. | 38 |
| P | ||
| 136 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 37 |
| 147 | Prayse ye the Lord. | 40 |
| R | ||
| 61 | Regard (O Lord.) | 20 |
| 132 | Remember Dauids troubles. | 35 |
| S | ||
| 59 | Send ayd & saue me. | 20 |
| 69 | Saue me O God. | 22 |
| 125 | Such as in God the Lord. | 33 |
| T | ||
| 1 | The man is blest. | 8 |
| 14 | There is no God. | 10 |
| 41 | The man is blest that careful is. | 15 |
| 46 | The Lord is our defence. | 16 |
| 50 | The mightie God. | 17 |
| 50 | The God of Gods. | 18 |
| 145 | Thee will I laud. | 40 |
| W | ||
| 52 | Why dost thou tyrant boast. | 19 |
| 111 | With hart I do accord. | 28 |
| 126 | When that the Lord. | 34 |
| 137 | When as we sat in Babilon. | 38 |
| Y | ||
| 113 | Ye children. | 28 |
- Attend my people,
- 42
- Our Father which in heauen art.
- 42
- All my beliefe and confidence.
- 43
- Giue peace in these our days.
- 44
- O Lord in thee is all my trust.
- 44
- Preserue vs Lord.
- 45
- O mightie God. Being of 5. parts.
- 46