John Trapp on Psalms 119:97

Verſ. 97 O how love I thy Law] Such a pang of love hee felt, as could not otherwiſe bee vented but by a patheticall Exclamation: and this was wrought in him by the thought of the largeneſs and laſtingneſs of Gods law. Plato prized one book (called Sophron) above all the reſt, whereof hee had many. Richard de Bury Biſh. of Durham, as hee had more Books than all the Biſhops of England beſides, ſo in his Book called Philobiblos, hee ſaith of himſelf, ecſtatico quodam librorum amore potenter ſe eſſe abreptum, that he was carried out of himſelf by love to good books;Floruit anno. 1333. but not ſo much as David was to Gods bleſſed book. Queen Elizabeth at her Coronation received the Bible (preſented unto her) with both her hands; and kiſſing it, laid it to her breaſt, ſaying, that the ſame had ever been her chiefeſt delight, &c.Speed.

It is my meditation all the day] Sive locutio, commentatio, occupatio, my daily diſcourſe, ſtudy, or imployment; as love is never idle.