8 And thus (6) to grant a sure defence, (6) The doctor hath a
     Belongs to God’s (7) omnipotence; mighty affection for the
                                               particle thus:  he uses
                                               it four times in this
                                               Psalm, and 100 times in
                                               other places, and
                                               always wrong.

(7) That is as much as to say, he that can do all things can defend a man; which I take to be an undoubted truth.

IV.  PSALM OF DAVID.

Reproving and admonishing his enemies.  Not to burlesque
                                               his Psalms.

1 As Thou hast always taken care A pretty phrase! 
     My sufferings to remove.

2 But you, my frail (1) malicious foes, (1) Are they malicious
     Who do my power despise; out of frailty, or frail
   Vainly how long will ye oppose, out of malice? 
     And (2) falsely calumnize!
                                               (2) That is, they say
                                               false things
          
                                     falsely.

I will discover the doctor’s secret of making the coherence and connection, in the Psalms that he brags of in his title and preface:  he lays violent hands on certain particles,(such as and, when, since, for, but, thus, so, &c.) and presses them to his service on all occasions sore against their wills, and without any regard whether the sense will admit them or no.

3 Since those alone the Lord has blest, (3) ’Tis plain the doctor
     That do from sin refrain; never requested to be a
   He therefore grants what I request, (3) poet. 
     And hears when I (4) complain: 

(4) If your requests be
granted, why do you
complain?

But of Thy face to us do Thou What is it, to
The favour still dispense; dispense the favour
of his face?

7 Then shall my soul with more divine (5) I have heard of a
     And solid joys abound, crown or garland of corn,
   Than they with stores of corn and wine, but a crown of wine is
     Those earthly riches, crown’d:  (5) new, and can hardly be
                                               explained, unless we
                                               suppose the wine to be
                                               in icicles.