Eructauit.
Psalme. xlv.
I.H.
The maiestie of Salomon, hys honour strengthe beauty, riches, and
power are praysed, and also hys maryage with the Egiptian being a
Heathen woman is blessed, if that she can renounce her people and the
loue of her contrey and geue her selfe wholy to her husbande. Under
the whyche fygure the wonderfull maiesties and the encrease of the
kingdome of Christe and the Churche hys spouse now taken of the gentiles is described.
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Sing this as the .xxv. psa
[The first parte.]
My
hart doth now, take in hande,
Some godly songe to singe?
Thy prayse I shall shew therin,
perteyneth to the kynge.
My tounge shalbe as quicke,
his honor to endite:
As is the pen of any scribe,
that vseth faste to wryte.
O fayrest of all men,
thy speache is pleasaunt pure:
For God hathe blessed thee with giftes,
for euer to endure.
Aboute thee girde thy sworde
O prince of might elect:
With honour glory and renoume,
thy person pure is dect.
Go forth with godly speede,
in mekenes, truth and ryght:
And thy ryght hand, shall thee instruct,
in workes of dredfull might.
Thyne arrowes sharpe and kene,
theyr harts so sore shall stinge,
That folke shall fall and knele to thee,
yea all thy foes, O kynge.
Thy royall seate, O Lorde,
for euer shall remayne:
Because the scepter of thy realme,
doth righteousnes maintaine.
Because thou louest the ryghte,
and dost the ill detest:
God euen thy God hath pointed thee,
with ioy aboue the rest:
With mirth and sauours swete,
thy clothes ar all be spreade:
When thou dost from thy palace pas,
wherin to make thee glad.
Kinges doughters doo attend,
in fine and riche araye:
At thy right hand, the queene doth stand
in goulde and garments gaye.
The second parte.
O doughter take good heede,
enclyne and geue good eare:
Thou must forget thy kindred all,
and fathers house most dere.
Then shall the king desire,
Thy beuty fayer and trim:
For why he is the Lorde thy God,
and thou must worship hym.
The doughters then of Tire,
with giftes full riche to see:
And all the welthy of the lande,
shall make theyr sute to thee.
The daughter of the king,
is glorious to beholde:
Within his closet she doth sitte,
all dert in beaten goulde.
In robes well wrought with needle,
with many a pleasaunt thyng:
With virgins faier on her to waighte,
she cometh to the king,
Thus are they brought with Ioy,
and mirth on euery side:
Into the palace of the king,
and there doo they abide.
In stede of parents lefte,
O quene the chaunge so standes.
Thou shalt haue sōnes whō thou maist set
as princes in all landes.
Wherfore thy holy name,
all ages shall recorde.
The people shall geue thankes to thee,
for euer more, O Lorde.
