(c) Throughout the 'Psalms' and other Poems, favourite words of Sir John Davies' occur: in part peculiar to him or used in a peculiar way. I must refer the Student to the Poems themselves for the great majority of examples: but note here half-a-dozen—all the references being to our own edition of the previous Poems.
1. 'Withall': "... that sinne that we are borne withall." ('Nosce Teipsum' page 57, stanza 5th, line 4th.) So in the 'Psalms':
"Be merciful and hear my prayer withall." (Ps. 4th, line 4th.)
2. 'Wight': "... this World below did need one wight." (page 60: stanza 4th, line 1st.) So in the 'Psalms': "... measures Iustice vnto euery wight." (Ps. 9th, line 16th.)
3. 'gray Winter': "Here flow'ry Spring-tide and there Winter gray." (page 63, stanza 1st, line 4th.) So in 'A Maid's Hymne in praise of Virginity': "To whome graye Winter neuer doth apeare." (line 7th.)
4. 'On' meaning 'o'er': "Will holds the royall scepter on the soul" ('Nosce Teipsum,' page 79, stanza 2nd, line 3rd.) "And on the passions of the heart doth raigne." (page 79, stanza 2d, line 4th.) So in the 'Psalms': "Let not my foes trihumph on mee againe." (Ps. 35th, line 37th). "In that my foe doth not trihumph on me." (Ps. 41st, line 22d.)
5. 'Detruded': "... such as me detruded downe to Hell." (page 110, stanza 1st, line 1st.) So in the 'Psalms': Therefore although my soule detruded were euen to Hell's gates.... (Ps. 23rd, line 7th.)
6. 'Center' meaning 'Earth': "Suruey all things that on this center here." (page 25th, stanza 1st, line 4th.) So in the 'Psalms': "And all that dwell on his round Center here." (Ps. 23rd, line 16th.)
It were easy to multiply these instances from the 'Psalms' and the other Poems.
(d) The secular Poems contain personal allusions that authenticate their authorship. In the 'Elegie of Loue' and in the lines "To the Kinge vpon his Maties first comming into England" these are of singular interest and value. The latter harmonizes with the fact that Sir John Davies proceeded North to meet the King: and it has a direct reference to his 'Nosce Teipsum.' Speaking of his Muse he exclaims,
"Thy sight had once an influence divine
Which gave it power the Soul of man to vew."