A Godly Psalm, of mary Queen, which brought us comfort all, Through God, whom we of duty praise, that gives her foes a fall.  
By Richard Beeard.  
Anno domini. 1553.  
¶ Imprinted at London in Fleetestrete, at the sign of the Falcon against saint Donstons' Church by William Griffith: and are to be sold at his shop a little above the Conduit.   


Medius,  
All England now be glad at ones with one heart mind, and voice: for now have we the greatest cause to sing & eke rejoice to sing & eke rejoice.   

Contratenor.  
All England now be glad at ones, with one heart mind & voice: For now have we the greatest cause the greatest cause to sing and eke rejoice.   

Tenor.  
All England now be glad at ones, with one heart mind and voice: for now have we the greatest cause the greatest cause to sing and eke rejoice to sing & eke rejoice.   

Bassus.  
All England now be glad at ones with one heart mind & voice: for now have we the greatest cause the greatest cause to sing and eke rejoice to sing and eke rejoice.    


1  
ALL England now be glad at ones,  
With one heart mind and voice:  
For now have we the greatest cause  
To sing and eke rejoice.   

2  
For God hath brought his servants true  
From troubles sore and great,  
Put down the proud, & hath the meek  
In their just places set.   

3  
¶ The Lord hath turned his wrath and ire,  
From us, out of his mind:  
beholding us with countenance  
Moast loving sweet and kind.   

4  
☞ That God which might have rightwisely,  
Destroyed us every one,  
Hath showed himself moast merciful,  
To help us all alone.   

5  
☞ He hath regarded equity,  
truth, justice, law, and right:  
And overthrown and vanquished  
The wrongful dealers might.   

6  
¶ We looked all for pestilence  
And vengeance at his hand,  
And eke innumerable plagues  
To come upon the land:   

7  
¶ But now hath he sent down his grace  
And mercy from above,  
And showed us undoubtedly  
A token of his love.   

8  
¶ We have full justly looked heeare  
For death and ruins rife.  
And now do we behold and trust  
A good and joyful life.   

9  
¶ Yea, we that wear moast sorrowful,  
Without a spirit or heart:  
Within a quarter of an hour  
Did quicken and revert.   

10  
¶ We which wear brought by servitude,  
Vntrewth and wrong tobey:  
Do truth and justice execute,  
And put that wrong away.   

11  
¶ We for our own great variance  
Did foreign strangers fear,  
Lest they through our descension hear  
Might rule among us bear:   

12  
¶ But now we shall with unity  
Be able to withstand,  
And vanquish all our enemies,  
And drive such from our land.   

13  
¶ Our kingdom which divided so  
Can never long abide:  
shall now in unity be kept,  
And treason be espied.   

14  
¶ And we that only looked for  
God's vengeance to us bend:  
Have now his greatest benefit  
Which he to us hath sent.   

15  
¶ He doth behold us meryli,  
And will continue still,  
If we as servants to his truth,  
Obey unto his will.   

16  
¶ He saw that wickedness arose,  
And bore his truth despite:  
And now will he out of the land  
Destroy the workers quite.   

17  
¶ When time that none durst speak for truth,  
Then he himself, so good  
Hath stepped forth, and opened all,  
Tavenge the guiltless blood.   

18  
¶ He setteth and establyssheth  
His servants in their right:  
And overthrows the wicked sort,  
For all their strength and might.   

19  
¶ It is not armour, harness bright,  
Nor any weapon strong,  
The strength that to the hands of men,  
Or hoorses doth belong:   

02  
¶ Nor any power on the earth  
That can prevail or stand,  
But only God the Lord himself  
Will have the upperhand.   

21  
¶ What can a fortress, castle strong,  
Or bulwark else prevail:  
Against the Lord that maketh all?  
In need these things will fail.   

22  
¶ The lord beeholdes the hearts and minds  
Of godly men full plain,  
Which only seek that rightwiseness  
And equity may reign.   

23  
¶ How wondrously doth God with us  
His people England deal?  
Such joy as we scarce looked for  
Among us to reveal.   

24  
¶ He healps the captives out of prison,  
Breaks the walls of stone:  
And rids his chosen from the death,  
And perils every one.   

25  
Our comfort is come near, and eke  
Our prayer heard, I trust:  
Of God which in the heaven dwells,  
And fighteth for the just.   

26  
¶ For he hath set and stablished,  
Our worthy sovereign:  
And our liege Lady, Marry Queen,  
On us by truth to reign.   

27  
¶ He hath us sent a comforter,  
To be our help and guide:  
With pity and with virtues all  
Endued on every side.   

28  
¶ The lawful, just, and righteous,  
Of England, head, and Queen:  
To be the true enheritoure,  
As hath her brother been.   

29  
Not claiming by collusion,  
Nor cloaking it by sleight:  
But by her birth, descending from  
Her godly father straight.   

30  
¶ She being elder sister right  
Unto our sovereign Lord,  
King Edward late the sixth by name,  
Whose strength was gods true word.   

31  
For which moast godly imp & bud  
Of jessees stock and root,  
Though we have almost cause to sigh,  
And sorrow be our boot:   

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●Yet are we comforted again,  
life up, and eke erect:  
because the Lord hath placed thus  
His chosen and elect.   

●●  
¶ Which being our moast godly Queen,  
That seeks our preservation:  
No doubt will strongly build upon  
Her brother's good foundation.   

34  
¶ The ground work he hath laid himself,  
And she is left alone,  
To build the house, and fortress up  
Of true religion.   

35  
¶ O England now continue still,  
In mirth and joy therefore:  
For God will strengthen day by day  
Your gladness more and more.   

36  
Our sovereign & rightioyse Queen  
Wyl vice and sin depress:  
Will cheafly love the church of God,  
And punish wickedness.   

37  
The Lord almighty grant that she  
May prosper to succeed:  
To have on us moast quiet reign,  
And help her in her need.   

38  
The Lord destroy her enemies,  
And make her foes bewrayed:  
To be soon catched in the snare,  
That they for her have laid.   

39  
Defend her, Lord, and eke all those,  
That bear to her good heart:  
And grant that from thy holy word,  
She never serve ne start.   

40  
Then doubtless all, both old & young  
Shall praise thy name for ever:  
And sing in Psalms to thee on earth,  
Which dost forsake us never.   

41  
Lord save our Queen moast gracious  
From evil and from fear:  
The Lady eke Elizabeth,  
Her godly sister dear.   

42  
Lord God preserve the noble men,  
From dangers ill and crime:  
And send us peace and quietness,  
In this same later time.   

43  
All glory be to God therefore,  
The father and the sone:  
And also to the holy ghost,  
In deity but one.   

44  
As it hath been from all beginnings  
Unto this before:  
As now it is, and from this time,  
shallbe for evermore.   

¶ A godly Psalm in metre  by. T.B. 

Psal. 145.  

1  
O Praise the Lord (my soul and spirit)  
So will I while I live,  
Yea, sure as long as I remain,  
I will him praises give.   

2  
Which helpeth them unto their right,  
That bide and suffer wrong,  
That feedeth eke the hungry men,  
And those that thirsted long.   

3  
The Lord from prison loseth men,  
And gives the blind their sight  
The Lord doth help them up that fall,  
And loveth well the right.   

4  
He cares for strangers, widows he  
Defends and fatherless:  
And overturnes the ways of all  
That work ungodliness.    

Psal. 146.  

5  
The Lord sets up and lifteth those  
That meek in heart are found:  
And bringeth down th'ungodly men  
From high unto the ground.   

6  
The legs of men delight him not,  
Nor any horse's strength  
But those that fear him, and do trust  
To have his grace at length.    

Psal. 148.  

7  
O praise the Lord ye kings & people  
Dwelling on the earth:  
Ye Princes and ye judges all,  
Rejoice at ones for mirth.   

8  
Young men and maids, you aged men,  
And children being young,  
Exalt his name, and also let  
His praises be your song.     
FINIS.  
By Thomas Bownell.