70 CATALOGTE OF A LOAN COLLECTION OF BOOKS.

This is often called tho fii-st book privately printed in England. The name of the author is concealed in a prologue to the 119th Psalm. It consists of a metrical preface of sixteen lines, and the initial letters of each line compose the name M.vtthkus Paukerls. M ade is this Psalme: by Alpliabcte: in Octonaries foKle, A U lettoi-8 two : ami twentio set : aa Hebiucs them have tolde. T he verses all : an huudre.l bee : threescore and just 6i.teene, T bus franule and knit : for meniorio : and clepance some wene. H ere letters all : bo sortely bound : do shew in niysterio E ternall health : may sure be fuuud : in Scrii>ture tot;ilIie. U erse yokd by eight : Christe's rising day : doth figure them in som*, S weetc Saboth rest : not here I say : I meanc of world to come. P eruse this Pealnie : so wide and brodc : each verso save one is freight, A 8 still in tei nies : of law of God : most ofto by voyces eyght. R ight statutes, olde i>recepts, decrees : cOmaundnients, word, and law. K nowne judgemeta, domes, and witnesses : al rightous wais thei draw E nvie no man : Gotl's worde to painte : in arte by such devise, K eade Hebrue tonge : the tong so sainte : and causeless be not nise. U pfolde bi here : Ood's truthes discust : right sure as all to teache, S o lies of man : all low bo thrust : full false in closing speache.