SIMPKIN, MARSHALL & Co., STATIONERS' HALL COURT, E.C. CROYDON: W. ELLISON. DOVER: HARVEY & HEMMIN ; J. GOULDEN. MAIDSTONE: J. OVEREND WILKIE. MARGATE: W. ROGERS: RAMSGATE: S. R. WILSON. N ADVERTISEMENT. [OTWITHSTANDING the number of other Psalters pointed, this edition has been prepared to supply a book of good type, convenient size, and moderate price, and also as an attempt to combine the following objects, 1. That the pointing may be readily adapted to Chants either of Ancient or Modern type, with longer or shorter Mediation and Cadence. 2. To secure the principle, common to all known adaptation of words to music, and adopted by the Choral Union of the Canterbury Diocese, of regularly making one final syllable fall on the ultimate note. 3. To arrange that, wherever possible, the natural emphasis of the words should coincide with the emphatic notes of the Chant. 4. That such arrangement should still not be at a needless sacrifice of smoothness and precision of enunciation. OBSERVATIONS. The horizontal bar means that the syllable before it is to be sustained through whatever notes occur between itself and the syllables that complete the Mediation or Cadence. In cases of Ancient Chants with short Mediation or Cadence, the pointing may be adapted by omitting the first bar where required. B THE PSALMS OF DAVID. THE FIRST DAY. Morning Prayer. PSALM 1. Beatus vir, qui non abiit, &c. 1 LESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of | sinners and hath not sat in the seat of the | scorn | ful. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law will he exercise him | self | day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the | water | side that will bring forth his fruit in due | season. 4 His leaf also shall not wither and look, whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper. 5 As for the ungodly, it is not | so with them but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth. 6 Therefore the ungodly shall not be able to stand | in the judgment neither the sinners in the congregation of the righteous. 7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the right | eous : and the way of the ungodly shall | per | ish. WHY PSALM 2 Quare fremuerunt gentes? HY do the heathen so furiously | rage together: and why do the people imagine a | vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take | counsel together against the Lord, and against | his Anointed. 3 Let us break their | bonds a | sunder and cast a | way their cords from | us. 4 He that dwelleth in heaven shall | laugh them to | scorn: the Lord shall have them in de ris | ion. 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his | wrath : and vex them in his | sore dis | plea | sure. |