Tate, being Laureate, naturally considered the state occasions on which psalms were to be used. The sentiments, at least, of his version of Ps. cl., which is appointed for the day of the Sovereign’s accession, are excellent.
The private slanderer shall be
In public justice doomed by me.
From haughty looks I’ll turn aside,
And mortify the heart of pride.
But honesty, called from her cell
In splendour at my court shall dwell.
Who virtue’s practice make their care,
Shall have the first preferments there.
No politics shall recommend