[66]Palgrave’s _Treasury of Sacred Song_, p. 333. Palgrave gives five of his poems. [67]Condor gives three verses, but the third is very inferior to these. The two I quote are included by Professor Palgrave and Mr. Quiller-Couch in their anthologies. Conder apparently did not know the author’s name. He took the verses from an ‘old collection.’ [68]From a MS. in the British Museum. Cf. the very full and interesting article in Julian, p. 580. [69]_Life of Ken_, ii. p. 201. [70]Altered later to ‘I wake, I wake.’ [71]Altered to ‘void of.’ [72]Plumptre’s _Life of Ken_, vol. ii. p. 268. [73]Plumptre’s _Life of Ken_, vol. ii. p. 288. [74]_Christian Psalmist_, Preface, xviii. [75]Preface to Austin’s _Devotions_, Edinburgh, 1789. [76]_Dictionary of Hymnology_, Article: ‘Roman Catholic Hymnody.’ [77]_Arundel Hymns_, 77. [78]_Poems_ (1872), p. 62. [79]I quote Austin’s text. Wesley’s changes do not improve it. [80]This hymn is from the _Office for Monday Lauds_. [81]From Farr’s _Select Poetry of the Reign of James I._ [82]_Presbyterian Hymnal_, 531. [83]Ken’s hymn for St. Matthew’s Day was edited by Bishop Walsham How, and in that form appears in _Hymns Ancient and Modern_, and in _Church Hymns_. [84]_Worship Song_, 15; _School Hymns_, 6. [85]There is a good sketch of Wither in Willmott’s _Lives of the Sacred Poets_, and an excellent biographical introduction by Mr. Edward Farr in _The Hymns and Songs of the Church_ (Library of Old Authors). Both these volumes give striking portraits, the latter one of the poet in his twenty-first year, surrounded by the punning motto, ‘I grow and wither both together.’ [86]Barton did not always reach so high a level. One of his versions of the ‘Te Deum’ is in this fashion— The blest Apo- stles glorious company, Do praise Thy ho- ly Name continually. [87]_Religio Medici._ [88]The best illustration is the hymn beginning Saviour, if Thy precious love, Could be merited by mine. No. 37 in the first edition of Wesley’s _Hymns_, No. 24 in the last. I am sorry it was omitted from the _Methodist Hymn-book_. [89]There is a delightful chapter on George Herbert in Lady McDougall’s _Songs of the Church_. [90]_Introductory Essay_, by J. H. Shorthouse, to Unwin’s facsimile reprint of _The Temple_. [91]Julian, ‘Psalters, English,’ p. 919. [92]The story of the Scotch psalms and paraphrases I must leave. It is well told in outline in Julian. The Scotch version has few literary or poetic graces, but it has held the heart and guided the mind of many generations, to whom it has been infinitely more precious than the smoother and more poetic verses of Addison, Heber, and Keble could ever be.