The above is a hasty, but I trust an intelligible, view of the scope of the Psalm.
[Footnote 6: Lightfoot, who edited Broughton's works in 1662, entitled them as follows:--"The Works of the great Albionen Divine, renowned in many Nations for rare Skill in Salem's and Athens' Tongues, and familiar acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning," &c.
Ben Jonson has managed to introduce Broughton into some of his plays. In his _Volpone_, when the "Fox" delivers a medical lecture, to the great amusement of Politic and Peregrine, the former remarks,
"But Alchemy, I never heard the like, or Broughton's books."
In the _Alchemist_, "Face" is made thus to speak of a female companion:
"Y' are very right, Sir, she is a most rare scholar, And is gone mad with studying Broughton's works; If you but name a word touching the Hebrew, She falls into her fit, and will discourse So learnedly of genealogies, As you would run mad too to hear her, Sir."
(See also _The History of the Jews in Great Britain_, vol. i. pp. 305, &c.)]
The inscription on one of the bells of Great Milton Church, Oxon. (as given by MR. SIMPSON in "N. & Q."), has a better and rhyming form occasionally.
In Meivod Church, Montgomeryshire, a bell (the "great" bell, I think) has the inscription--
"I to the church the living call, And to the grave do summon all."
The same also is found on the great bell of the interesting church (formerly cathedral) of Llanbadarn Fawr, Cardiganshire.
I beg to forward the following inscription on one of the bells in the tower of St. Nicholas Church, Sidmouth. I have not met with it elsewhere; and you may, perhaps, consider it worthy of being added to those given by CUTHBERT BEDE and J. L. SISSON:
"Est michi collatum Ihc istud nomen amatum."
There is no date, but the characters may indicate the commencement of the fifteenth century as the period when the bell was cast.
"I will sound and resound to thee, O Lord, To call thy people to thy word."
Pray add the following savoury inscriptions to your next list of bell-mottoes. The first disgraces the belfry of St. Paul's, Bedford; the second, that, of St. Mary's, Islington:
"At proper times my voice I'll raise, And sound to my _subscribers'_ praise!"
"At proper times our voices we will raise, In sounding to our _benefactors'_ praise!"