1. This dating of the composition of the Psalmes follows Gary Waller, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: A Critical Study of her Writings and Literary Milieu (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1979), 44, 156–7.
2. See ‘Manuscripts of the Psalmes’ and ‘Relationship of the Texts of the Psalmes’ in Collected Works II: 308–58. See also Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Introduction: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke: An Introduction to the Critical Heritage,’ in Margaret P. Hannay, ed., Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550–1700: Volume 2, Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2009), xv–lxii.
3. See Michael G. Brennan, ‘The Queen’s Proposed Visit to Wilton and the “Sidney Psalms,”’ Sidney Journal 20 (2002): 27–53.
4. William A. Ringler, The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ( Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962 ), 547.
5. See also Steven W. May, The Elizabethan Courtier Poets: The Poems and Their Contexts (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1991), 177 n.15.