The Davies authorship of this little lilt, is confirmed by a contemporary (Harleian) MS. list of contributors to England's Helicon (280), wherein his name is placed against it. G.
[181] In my Fuller Worthies' Library edition of Davies, I inserted above Riddle as kindly sent me by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, from the "Philosopher's Banquet": 2d edition, 1614, p. 261. In its text l. 6 'he' is spelled 'hee,' and 'ay' is 'yea.' G.
[182] There is a title here, "The Psalmes translated into verse, Anno Domini 1624." G.
[183] 'rest' is written and erased here. G.
[184] An illegible word erased here. G.
[185] = wight. G.
[186] This 'not' is self-evidently required. G.
[187] = pitched. Henry More in one of his Hymns uses the word:
"Lord stretch Thy tent in my straight breast,
Enlarge it downward, that sure rest
May there be pight."
G.
[188] Written here, as elsewhere, not by the contraction-sign of the plural 'es' but in full. G.