And now doth come into my mind som \other/ things which \afore/ * those times I did (afore my Grammothers sicknes) my mother gave every one of us a Psalme booke , in which I much delighted because of the verce and haveing learned \Psalmes/* I sung them. thinking I did well; by the immitacion of others althought I did not so fully understand them nether sing according to the tune for which my mother reproved us for, but my Granmother thinking it to be good for us to learne the Psalmes my mother Answerred as I remember to this effect that wee could not with that reverrance Col 3.16 sing them as ought to be. (I Cor. 14.15) after this time I had no mind or was very dull to sing the Psalmes therefore it would have ben better if wee could have learnt; that which by nature other \[illeg]/ Children I have \hard/ sing afore my age at this time; about 3 yeares after this¹⁹ my brother learning to sing my father would have had mee learne also, for the benifit of my lungs being troubeled with a horsnes, but herein I confess my dulnes having no mind to learn, \but/ now comming to a fuller understanding of this Act I condemne my neclygence herein calling to mind the Kingly Prophet David who commited most of his Psalmes to him that excelleth on divers tunes or instruments; besides his songes of degres²⁰, and althought the cheefest matter which is required is the intencion of the hart uttering words of devine knowledge, yet in these gifts \both/ or Musick and Rhetorick of singing and Eloquence[e?] is the heart inflamed with the more alacrity and vigour and our