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The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament
The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in public and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]The psalms hymns and spiritual songs, of the Old and New-Testament: faithfully translated into English metre. ; For the use, edification and comfort of the saints in publick and private: especially in New-England. ; [Eight lines of Scripture references and texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1698
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.
verse 3 As they about the city went the watch-men found out me: To whom I said, him whom my soul doth love▪ O did you see? ⟨image ?⟩verse 4 It was but as a little space, that I from them had past: But whom my soul did love, I found, and then I held him fast.
I would not suffer him to go, till I had brought him in My mothers house, the chamber where conceived I had been: verse 5 O daughters of Jerusalem, my love wake not, nor raise, By roes and hinds of field, I you do charge, until he please.
verse 6 Who's this from desert that ascends like smoky pillars tall, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense 'bove merchants powders all? verse 7 Behold the bed the which is his, the which is Solomons: About it threescore valiant men, of Israels valiant ones.
verse 6 Who's this from desart that ascends like smoaky pillars tall, Perfum'd with myrrh and frankincense 'bove merchants powders all? verse 7 Behold the bed the which is his, the which is Solomons: About it threescore valiant men, of Israels valiant ones.