270 Lawrence Mason, 



i68, 169, 166, 167, 172, 173, 170, 171, 176, 177, 174, 175, 180, 181, 178, 

 179, 184, 185, 182, 183, 188, 189, 186, 187, 192, 193, etc. Regardless 

 of this confusion, liowever, tlie text runs right along, in proper order ; 

 even the page-headings are undisturbed. The only slip is at the 

 bottom of p. 181, where the catch-word is given as "Psal. cii" when 

 it should be "Psal. xcvii." This error, however, is not due to the 

 faulty pagination, inasmuch as on no page would such a catch-word 

 be correct ; for Psalme cii begins in the middle of a page, viz. 188. 

 At p. 107, the page-heading is printed " Psalme xli " instead of " Psalme 

 Ixi." In addition to overlooking these various peculiarities, Hannah 

 failed to notice that there are two versions not only of Psalme cxxx, 

 but also of Psalme cxxiv. The Preface was signed only by a mono- 

 gram, during King's lifetime ; but this idiograph seems to have been 

 a recognized means of identification with Henry King, for it appears 

 in some of his autograph letters and in several MS. copies of various 

 single poems, and a book was dedicated to him by means of it,^ even. 

 This British Museum copy is bound in calf, and on the co\-er is stamp- 

 ed in gilt : " Gift of G. HI." 



As in the case of his "Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets," 

 so heie too, after a few years Henry King's work received a new title- 

 page and certain supplementary poems, and was then re-issued as 

 a new edition. The third title-page (which is found between the two 

 others, in the copy catalogued 3434. b. 13. in the British Museum) 

 duplicates the second, except for the following additions or emen- 

 dations : "Unto which are newly added the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, 

 the Ten Commandments, with some other Ancient Hymnes. . . . 

 London, Printed by S. G. and are to be sold by Humphrey ]\Ioseley 

 at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1654." Among 

 the "other Ancient Hymnes" thus included is a piece subsequently re- 

 printed among the poems in the 1657 volume, on pp. 139—40, namely 

 the above-mentioned- "anthem" beginning, "Hearken O God." 

 The hymn-tunes also are supplemented, as well as somewhat changed 

 in order and title; and a new table of "Errata" is added which to 

 some extent enlarges and improves upon the earlier list, but to a greater 

 extent falls short : for some of the "Errours" formerly noted are now 

 disregarded, while none have been corrected in the text. The text, 

 in fact, is unaltered throughout : the faulty pagination between pages 

 169 and 192, and the other defects described above, remain in the 

 same condition. So the volume, Hke the "1664" and "1700" copies 



1 Cf. "N. & Q.," 2d Series, IX, 388, 432, 492; "Fasti Oxon.," II, 40, 



41 ; and cf. pp. 242, N. i, 255, 256, sup. 

 2 Cf. p. 2O8, N. 2, sup. 



