C.
Singing Psalms and Politics (Vol. viii., p. 56.).—One instance of the misapplication of psalmody must suggest itself at once to the readers of "N. & Q.," I mean the melancholy episode in the history of the Martyr King, thus related by Hume:
"Another preacher, after reproaching him to his face with his misgovernment, ordered this Psalm to be sung,—
'Why dost thou, tyrant, boast thyself,
Thy wicked deeds to praise?'
The king stood up, and called for that Psalm which begins with these words,—
'Have mercy, Lord, on me, I pray;
For men would me devour.'
The good-natured audience, in pity to fallen majesty, showed for once greater deference to the king than to the minister, and sung the psalm which the former had called for."—Hume's History of England, ch. 58.
W. Fraser.
Tor-Mohun.
Dimidiation by Impalement (Vol. vii., p. 630.).—Your correspondent D. P. concludes his notice on this subject by doubting if any instance of "Dimidiation by Impalement" can be found since the time of Henry VIII. If he turn to Anderson's Diplomata Scotiæ (p. 164. and 90.), he will find that Mary Queen of Scots bore the arms of France dimidiated with those of Scotland from A.D. 1560 to December 1565. This coat she bore as Queen Dowager of France, from the death of her first husband, the King of France, until her marriage with Darnley.
T. H. de H.
"Inter cuncta micans," &c. (Vol. vi, p. 413.; Vol. vii., p. 510.).—The following translation is by the Rev. Geo. Greig of Kennington. It preserves the acrostic and mesostic, though not the telestic, form of the original:
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"In glory rising see the sun, Enlightening heaven's wide expanse, So light into the darkest soul, Uplifting Thy life-giving smiles Sun Thou of Righteousness Divine, |
Illustrious orb of day, Expel night's gloom away. JESUS, Thou dost impart, Upon the deaden'd heart; Sole King of Saints Thou art." |
H. T. Griffith.