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My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made, touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

No child—no grown man with any sense of poetry—can deny his ear to the Forty-fifth Psalm; the one that begins 'My heart is inditing a good matter,' and plunges into a hymn of royal nuptials.

From On The Art of Reading by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The minister began: "My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer."—Whose heart but mine?

From A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography by Beers, Clifford Whittingham

The maid of honor is inditing an epistle to one who must fall.

From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Herrick, Robert

"My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the king."

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir