A27939:1753
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns…
Mr. Richard Baxter's paraphrase on the Psalms of David in metre with other hymns / left fitted for the press by his own hand.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3 My days consumed are like smoke, My [very] bones are burnt and dry.
3 My days consumed are like smoak, My [very] bones are burnt and dry.
4 My heart within me smitten is, [And] like [to] grass it's withered; So swallowed up with grief, that I [Do even] forget to eat my bread.
4 My heart within me smitten is, [And] like [to] grass it's withered; So swallow'd up with grief, that I [Do even] forget to eat my bread.
5 By reason of my groaning voice, My bones cleave to my [withered] skin:
6 I like mournful Pelican Of [the sad] wilderness have bin. I like an Owl in desert am, Who nightly there doth [screech and] moan.