[52]Hutton’s _English Saints_, p. 208. [53]The Sarum Breviary reads, _Et nox fidei luceat_. [54]Mone’s _Hymni Latini_, i. 381. [55]Masters, 1852. [56]_Church Hymns_, 586, Cædmon, Tr. R. M. Moorsom; 212, Bede, Tr. C. S. Calverly. [57]Coverdale’s _Remains_ (Parker Society, 1846). The original is a German hymn beginning _Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ_. Miss Winkworth, in her _Chorale Book_, described it as anonymous, but Julian ascribes it to Johannes Agricola (1492-1566). Miss Winkworth’s translation begins, ‘Lord, hear the voice of my complaint,’ Rev. A. Tozer-Russell’s, ‘Lord, Jesus Christ, I cry to Thee.’ [58]Miller’s _Singers and Songs of the Church_. [59]‘We mention the name of Clement Marot, important here chiefly for the influence he might have had. For he translated the Psalms into French verse, put them to tunes, and set the Court singing them. Let us think for a moment what England owes to those sweet and simple hymns which it is our godly fashion to sing in the churches and in the homes from earliest childhood, and which form a link to connect our religion with our daily life. Let us only try to think what we should be without these. And then give praise to Marot, for it was he who gave to France what should have been the foundation and beginning of a national book of praise and service of song, had not the bigots, the stupid mischievous bigots, stopped the singing because they pretended to see heresy in the words—David’s words. And France is without hymns to this day.’—Besant’s _Essays and Historiettes_, ‘The Failure of the French Reformation,’ p. 78. [60]A full and interesting account of the Old Version is given in Julian. Holland’s notices of these writers are also good. [61]_Wode_ or _wood_, Anglo-Saxon = mad, violent. [62]‘This literary curiosity occurs at the end of a book entitled, _A godly Medytacion of the Christian Soule_, &c., compyled in Frenche, by Lady Margarite, Quene of Naverre. This psalm is reprinted in Park’s edition of _The Royal and Noble Authors of Great Britain_.’—Farr’s _Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_ (Parker Society), 1835. [63]Pight = pitched, laid. [64]This hymn appeared in Bickersteth’s _Christian Psalmody_ in three verses, of which Miller says, ‘two stanzas bear no resemblance’ to Sandys’s original. The _Methodist Hymn-book_ cento is much nearer to Sandys, though it has many variations. [65]Farr’s _Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth_. The poem has ten verses. Most are unsuited for congregational use, as may be judged from the following lines:— The carrion crow, that loathsome beast, Which cries against the rain, Both for her hue and for the rest The devil resembleth plain: And as with guns we kill the crow, For spoiling our relief, The devil so must we o’erthrow With gunshot of belief.