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"Hymnes, or Sacred songs wherein the right vse of poesie may be espied. Whereunto are added, the experience of the authors youth, and certaine precepts seruing to the practise of sanctification. The table followes in the next page."
Hume, Alexander, 1560?-1609.
Partly in Scots verse.
At foot of title: Cum privilegio regio.
[8], 66 p.
Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Walde-graue, printer to the Kings Majestie, 1599.
STC (2nd ed.) / 13942
Scots
Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery