Followed by twenty very complimentary lines by Alexander Broome [Brome] addressed 'To His Friend Thomas Stanley, Esq., On his Odes set and Published by Mr. John Gamble'; by twenty-two lines 'On my Friend Mr. John Gamble his Excellent Composition of the Songs and Dialogues of Thomas Stanley, Esq.,' signed Jo: Tatham; and a Preface of Gamble's own, reproduced herewith. Then another Preface, To the Noble Few Lovers of Musick (Gamble's); and poems, in order, by Richard Lovelace, Jo: Redmayne, Dudley Lovelace, and Eldred Revet. [Gamble'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.