N01640:71
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original;…
Psalterium Americanum. The Book of Psalms, in a translation exactly conformed unto the original; but all in blank verse. : Fitted unto the tunes commonly used in our churches. Which pure offering is accompanied with illustrations, digging for hidden treasures in it; and rules to employ it upon the glorious and various intentions of it. : Whereunto are added, some other portions of the sacred Scripture, to enrich the cantional.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for B. Eliot, 1718
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.
BUT some of them are accommodated for a well-known Longer Metre, by putting in Two Syllables of the Black Letter, which are, without any Damage to the Truth of the Translation, found enclosed between ⟨image ?⟩Two such Crotchets as these, [] And which being left out, the Metre, with the Sense yet remaining entire, is again restored unto the usual, Eight & Six.
AND some of them are so contrived, that by leaving out what is in the Black Letter, between the Two Crotchets, [] which may be done without any manner of Damage, they are accommodated unto a well-known Shorter Metre.
THE Director of the Psalmody, need only to say, Sing with the Black Letter, or, Sing without the Black Letter, and the Tune will be sufficiently directed.
IN the Addition to the CANTIONAL, the Singer will find, That besides what is done for the Tune, which uses to go by the Name of, The CXLVIII Psalm-Tune, or, the Hallelujatic Tune; by Taking or Dropping the Two Syllables of Black Letter, between the Crotchets, [] a Variety of Other Ts is provided for.