Each  part,  separately  numbered  in  the  folios,  before  noticed,  has  a

*  The  last  verse  is  as  follows:  *  Thou  that  dwellest  in  the  gardens,  O  let  me  heare  thy
voyce,  that  my  companyons  maye  herken  to  the  same.  O  get  the  awaye  (my  loue)  as
a  roo  or  a  yonge  hert  vnto  the  swete  smellinge  mountaynes.'

+  *  This  [colophon]  is  a  plain  inconsistency  with  the  title  or  preamble  of  the  Dedica-
tion to  the  king ;  wherein,  as  has  been  before  observed,  Coverdale  mentions  the  king's
**  dearest  just  wife  Jank" — whereas  it  k  certain,  that  the  king  was  not  married  to  her
till  May  20, 1536,  more  than  half  a  year  after  the  date  of  finishing  this  Bible.  The  only
way  1  can  think  of  to  reconcile  this  difference,  is  this  ;  that  after  this  Bible's  being  finished
at  the  press  in  October,  Coverdale,  hearing  from  his  friends  in  England,  that  Queen  Anne
was  declining  at  court,  thought  it  prudent  to  defer  the  publication  of  it  till  he  saw  what
turn  affairs  would  take,  and  after  the  King's  marrying  Queen  Jane,  who  was  thought  to
favour  the  Reformation,  then  made  the  fore-mentioned  dedication  to  the  King,  or  how-
ever altered  the  title  of  it  as  it  stands  now,  and  reprinted  it.  This  last  is  the  more  pro-
bable, in  that,  another  copy  of  this  translation,  which  has  this  Dedication,  the  text,
character,  and  every  thing  else  like,  or  the  same  with,  this,  it  is  "  your  dearest  just  wryfe
and  most  vertuous  Princesse  Quene  Anne."

Lewis  :  English  Translations  of  the  Bible :  1739.  8vo.  p.  gg-lOO.
