CXII. John Pullain

Cantate Domino.

SING vnto the Lord with heartie accord

A new ioyfull song:

Hir praises resounde in euerie grounde

His saintes all among.

Let Israel reioice and praise eke with voyce

His Maker louing;

The sonnes of Sion let them euerie one

Be glad in their King.

Let all them aduance his name in the dance

Bothe now and alwayes;

With harp and tabret, euen so likewise let

Them vtter his prayes.

The Lord’s pleasure is in them that are his,

Not willing to start;

But all meanes do seke to succour the meke

And humble in heart.

The saints more and lesse his praise shall expresse,

As is good and right;

Reioycing, I saye, both now and for aye,

In their beds at night.

Their throte shall braste out in euerie route

In praise of their Lord;

And as men most bolde in hande they shall holde

A two-edged sworde,

Auenged to be in euerie degree

The heathen vpon,

And for to reproue, as them doth behoue,

The people ech one;

To bind strange kings fast in chains that will last,

Their nobles also

In hard yron bands, as well fete as hands,

To their grief and wo:

That they may indede giue sentence with spede

On them to their paine;

As is writ. Alwayes such honour and prayes

His saints shall obtaine.