Old John Hopkin's, and Tho. Sternhold's, petition to the Parliament against the new version of the Psalms. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B27582 of text R32320 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 2 1-bit group-IV TIFF page images. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B27582 12633468 Wing O204A Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.121.g.9[108] Interim Tract Supplement Guide Harl.5937[330] ESTC R32320 ocm99889776

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 eng Hopkins, John, d. 1570 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Sternhold, Thomas, d. 1549 -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800. Broadsides -- England -- 17th century. eebo Old John Hopkin's, and Tho. Sternhold's, petition to the Parliament : against the new version of the Psalms. n/a 1699 2 648 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-05 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-06 Sampled and proofread 2014-06 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
Old John Hopkin's , and Tho . Sternhold's , Petition to the PARLIAMENT Against New Version of the Psalms . TO the Great Council of the Nation , The sad and hearty Lamentation Of Good King David's Old Translation , Most humbly shews , the Toleration Of any New Versification , Is against Ancient Legislation : Since former Senates Approbation Was giv'n to their Old Explication , They humbly beg the Consolation To let 'em keep their former Station , WHereas your Orators and Beadmen , Full sore against their Wills , are dead Men , And should have slept without Offence As common is to Men of Sense , Had not their Learned Ekes and Ayes So famous in Queen Besse's Days , Been in such Danger , as to make Their Parents yearning Bowels speak . Ah! Think ye Masters how can we Enjoy our dear beloved Glee , When these the Children of our Stile Are dispossess'd by Fraud and Guile , And yield to Brats of Priest and Player , Not half so well brought up as they are ? Because , Forsooth , our Dress is lowly , Must this our Garment be unholy ? Or can it be esteem'd a Fault , That Hebrew Plainess is in Hebrew thought ? As if meek Innocence should wear The guilty Tinsil of the Fair ; Or Men approv'd the Text Divine , Not for its Truth , but 'cause its Words were fine . For Heav'ns sake , Sirs , consider on it , A Psalm should not be like a Sonnet ; And He that writes a Birth-Day Song With Praise , may do the Psalmist wrong . Alas ! Poor King ! He mourns and weep , Nor longer with his Fathers sleeps ! " How are my Foes increas'd , he cries , " Which vex me more and more ? " How do they swagger , who devise " To trouble me full sore ? " Saul have I born , and eke the Smart " Of Sickness , and of Pain : " But oh ! They pierce my Righteous Heart , " Who now my Sense would strain . " Full empty are the Words , God knows , " Which now they make me speak , " I 'd sooner bear Goliah's Blows " Than what I now do take . " Milbourn , and Barton , are but Chits " In Mischief to this Pair , " Who now on me employ their Wits , " 't would make a Saint to swear . " Oh! Let 'em as their Hands have done , " And they deserve indeed , " And after their Invention " Let 'em receive their Meed . " Since I who could the Fury fell " Of Saul's enraged Mind " With Holy Psalms and Musick quell , " No Rest my self can find . " For now not Saul's , but David's , Soul " With Madness is full fraught ; " And I who could his Rage controul , " Have his Distemper caught . Thus ( Senators ) the Royal Bard Would have his wretched Ailments heard ; And thus before your Wisdoms Sage , He lays the Reasons of his Rage . We too must join against these Elves , And beg for David , and our Selves : Oh! For those Lines by Nich . and Nahum , Let no one sing or ever say 'em ; Nor take our Priviledges from us , Whilst I am John and I am Thomas . And your Petitioners shall pray For Evermore , and Eke for Aye .
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London , Printed for John Wells , in St. Paul's Church-yard , 1699.