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Updated: June 13, 2025
They had one collection of metrical Psalms that of Sternhold and Hopkins, of which we never sing any now except the Hundredth that version known to every one, beginning "All people that on earth do dwell." The Psalms they sang then sound strange to us now but we must remember they did not sound at all strange to those who sang them. Here are two verses of the Forty-Second.
"Tom Sternhold's" songs were entitled to be called prick-songs because they had notes of music printed with them. Hence they were irreverently called "Genevan Jiggs," and "Beza's Ballets." There is much difference shown in the wording of these various editions of Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalms.
So sang the congregation in the chapel at Chartley, in the strains of Sternhold and Hopkins, while Humfrey Talbot could not forbear from a misgiving whether these falsehoods were entirely on the side to which they were thus liberally attributed.
"You consent then to the expulsion of Sternhold and Raffden? for, after all, that is the question. Our British vessel, as the d -d metaphor-mongers call the State, carries the public good safe in the hold like brandy; and it is only when fear, storm, or the devil makes the rogues quarrel among themselves and break up the casks, that one gets above a thimbleful at a time.
An everlasting interest attaches to this metrical arrangement of the Psalms, to Americans as well as to Englishmen, because it was the earliest to be adopted in public worship in England. Sternhold and Hopkins' Version was also the first to give all the psalms of David in English verse to the English public. Very little is known of the authors of this version.
They formed the basis of all future collections of psalm-music for over a century. They soon were published in harmony in four parts, "which may be sung to all musical instrumentes set forth for the encrease of vertue and abolyshing of other vayne and tryfling ballads." In 1592 a very important collection of psalm-tunes was published to use with Sternhold and Hopkins' words.
Between the affirmative and the negative there is no border land with him. You cannot hover with him on the confines of truth." On a book of Coleridge's nephew he writes, "I confess he has more of the Sterne about him than the Sternhold. But he saddens into excellent sense before the conclusion."
"Raffden and Sternhold go out in favour of Baldwin and Charlton, and in the hope that you will lend your aid to " "I!" said Lord Mauleverer, very angrily, "I lend my aid to Baldwin, the Jacobin, and Charlton, the son of a brewer!" "Very true!" continued Brandon.
'Our little fleet was now engaged so far, That, like the swordfish in the whale, they fought. The combat only seemed a civil war, Till through their bowels we our passage wrought. Is this Dryden, or Sternhold, or Shadwell, those Toms who made him say that "dulness was fatal to the name of Tom"? The natural history of Goldsmith in the verse of Pye!
It was dedicated to King William, and though its use was permitted in English churches, it never supplanted Sternhold and Hopkins' Version. Another version of Psalms which is occasionally found in New England is known as "Patrick's Version." The title is "The Psalms of David in Metre Fitted to the Tunes used in Parish Churches by John Patrick, D.D. Precentor to the Charter House London."
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