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Singing with woful noise Like a crack'd saints bell jarring in the steeple, Tom Sternhold's wretched prick-song for the people.
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Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms When they translated David's psalms.
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Not but there are who merit other palms Hopkins and Sternhold glad the heart with psalms. The boys and girls whom charity maintains Implore your help in these pathetic strains. How could devotion touch the country pews Unless the gods bestowed a proper muse.
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When it is seasonable to sing praises to God we do it, not in the scandalous doggrel of Hopkins and Sternhold, but in psalms and hymns which are both sense and poetry, such as would provoke a _critic_ to turn _Christian_ rather than a _Christian_ to turn _critic_.
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In 1592 a very important collection of psalm-tunes was published to use with Sternhold and Hopkins' words. It is called
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes: with their wonted tunes as they are sung in Churches composed into four parts. This book is noteworthy because in it the tunes are for the first time named after places, as is still the custom. The music contained square or oblong notes and also lozenge-shaped notes. The square note was a
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the lozenge-shaped note was a
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or a
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Tom Sternhold's songs were entitled to be called prick-songs because they had notes of music printed with them. Many of the tunes in this collection were taken from the Genevan Psalter and Luther's Psalm-Book, or from Marot and Beza's French Book of Psalms. Hence they were irreverently called
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Genevan Jiggs, and
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Beza's Ballets.
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said of these attempted improvements, with vehemence, that