e's Preface, 1657.]

To the Worthy of all Honour, Thomas Stanley, Esq.

SIR,--You have been a merciful Creditor in the trust of these
inestimable Poems so long with me, a person inconsiderable. But, I
beseech you, think I have been sensible of the great obligation, and
alwayes thought it a lesse trespass to break with all the world,
then, by the least forgetfulness, make an unhappy forfeit of myself
to your displeasure. Sir, I have brought home your Principal; and
though it be a thing beneath your generous expectation to look at
profit, yet I thought it became my justice to tender you a small
interest, the endevours of my poor Art, to wait upon it: I
acknowledge it a bold Undertaking to compose your Words, (which are
so pure Harmonie in themselves,) into any other Musick. But it was
not in my ambition or hope to mend the least Accent or Emphasis
w^{ch} they received from your own numerous Soul, but to essay how
neer a whole life spent in the study of Musical Compositions could
imitate the flowing and naturall Graces which you have created by
your Fancie. I have onely to say, if my zeal have not stained what
you have excellently made, I will not despair of your pardon; and if
any thing herein, (the wel-meant tender of my service,) may obtain
your smile and permission, I shalbe confirmed in my thoughts that I
may stil write myself,--Sir, The most humble and faithful of your
Servants,
JOHN GAMBLE.

In this collection of Stanley's verse, 1656, 1657, the lyrics have
no titles of any sort, but are numbered.

12. Psalterium Carolinum: the Devotions of His Sacred Majestie in his
Solitudes and Sufferings rendred in Verse [from the Eikon Basilike
by T. Stanley]. Set to Musick for 3 Voices and an Organ or Theorbo
by John Wilson, Dr. and Music Professor of Oxford, London. Printed
for John Martin and James Allestrey, and are to be sold at the Bell
in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1657. Folio.

13. Psalterium Carolinum: the Devotions of His Sacred Majesty Charles
the First in his Solitudes and Sufferings. Rendred in Verse. London.
Printed for John Martin, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas, and are
to be sold at the Bell in St. Pauls Church-yard, 1660.

The Dedication, to King Charles the Second, is signed Tho: Stanley.
The twenty-seven paraphra