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God graunt that we would: prayse euer agayne,
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in our quiere
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so nere: to all doth appeare.
To all doth appeare.

Confitemi ni domino

The Meane.

1

O prayse the Lord all ye,
Due thankes to hym extende:
For good he is: whose gentlenes,
Shall last till world doth ende.

2

Let them say thus in thankes: who were by God made free:
Whom he redeemd: from cruell hand: of troublous enmitie.

3

And whom he gatherd nye: from countries strange and wyde:
From East and West: from North and South: in citie safe to byde.

4

Who wandred out of way: in desertes wildernes:
And found no way: to dwelling towne: to stay in restfulnes.

5

When hunger felt and thirst: nye pynde by famishment:
Whose hartes within: dyd melt away: for needefull nourishment.

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The Rectors.

6

Who thus afflict: when they did cry,
To God in meeke complaintes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.

7

For he led them: the way full kynde,
Both ryght and prosperous:
Wherby they dyd: a citie fynde,
To dwell commodious.

The Quiere.

8

God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then:
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare,

9

For that he refresht: theyr bodely neede,
Where thirsty they strayd: as wyth anguishe opprest:
Theyr soule dyd he ease: of theyr hunger in speede,
To set them in rest: wyth foode of the best.

The Meane.

10

And they that sate in darke: in deadly shadowes blacke:
Afflict in bondes: and iron chaynes: and felt all comfortes lacke.

11

They thus deserud for why: gods wordes they did detest,
The counsayles eke: they did despise: of all the worthiest.

12

He then brought downe their hartes: wyth griefes most tedious:
They fell full faynt: none helpyng them: so far rebellious.

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The Rectors.

13

Who thus afflict: when they dyd cry,
To God in meeke complayntes:
He them dyd saue: most louingly,
From all theyr hard constrayntes.

14

For he them brought: from sorrowes long,
From darke and deadly shade:
He brake their bondes: and fetters strong,
To freedome they to wade.

The Quiere.

15

God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,
The Lord for hys grace: so to sing in theyr quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the children of men,
Whose mercy so neare; to them dyd appeare.

16

For that he releast: their burdenouse holde,
The gates that in brasse: were inuincible fast,
As also the barres: that in yron were folde,
By hym were they brast: set ope at the last.

The Meane.

17

And fooles that lewdly did: by surfet foule transgres,
And were for al theyr sinnes afflict: by sicknes fell excesse.

18

Who meat in tast abhord: though sweete and wholesome dyght,
And then came nigh: to death hys gates: to stop theyr breth and sight

The Rectors.

19

Who thus afflict: whan they do crye,
To God in meke complayntes:
He them did saue: most louinglye,
From all their hard constrayntes.

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20

For he then sent: his worde anone,
He them restord by myght:
Wherby they scapte: destruction,
From perill saued quite.

The Quiere.

21

God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,
The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childer of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.

22

That offer they may: the sacrifice pure,
Iust thankes of their lippes: out of hart so to rayse:
Hys workes to renome: so the world to allure.
His walkes and his wayes: most gladly to prayse.

The Meane.

23

And they that enter do: the sea wyth shyp and sayle,
To worke theyr feates: in waters depe: for lyfelodes great auayle.

24

They see Gods dreadfull workes: in tempestes them they note,
His meruels eke: of thynges so houge: in depe also in flote.

25

God speakth and strait ryse vp: the wyndes of blustring stormes
Which vp do hoyse: the bellowes rage: in gastly grisly formes.

26

Theare ships rise vp to heauen: agayne to deepe they fall:
Thus tosse in waues: the mariners: great feares their hartes apall.

27

They to and fro be tost: they reele as man full dronke:
Theyr arte thē faylth: theyr wits be gone: they fare as men but sonke

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The Rectors.

28

Who thus afflict: when they do cry,
To God in meke complayntes:
He them doth saue: most louingly,
From all their harde constrayntes.

29

For he the stormes: doth calme in sea,
the waues he stilleth their dinne:

30

Then glad are they: that still they be,
Safe hauen he driueth them in.

The Quiere.

31

God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,
The Lord for hys grace: so to syng in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the childern of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them dyd appeare.

32

Hys fame to aduaunce: as duely they ought,
Downe set as they be: with the people in place:
To prayse hym aright: for indempnitie wrought,
Where elders in space: their courtes do embrace.

The Meane.

33

So let men note Gods myght: in dread of hym to stand:
Which turnth moist soyle: to wildernes: & dryeth vp springs to land

34

A fruitefull earth he makth: as salt and barren ground:
The dwellers sinnes: be cause therof: where in their liues be found

35

So he the desert makth: to flow wyth water springes:
And soyle most dry: from barennes: by runnyng brookes he bringes.

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36

And there he setth to dwell: all hungry nedefull men:
To build themselfe: a city strong: as Forte therto to renne.

37

And there the fieldes they sowe: and vineyardes large they plant
Sweete frutes to beare: of yeres increase: to feede their neede & want

38

All them he blessth wyth store: they then increase most hye:
And suffreth not theyr cattell once: to droupe or yet to dye.

39

But when they fall to sinne: he them decayth agayne:
By cruell powers: he bringth them low: with cares opprest & payne

The Rectors.

40

When thus afflict: they feele decay,
By Princes great abuse:
Though out of way: a tyme they stray,
At last he them reduce.

41

For he the poore: returnd by smart,
Doth rayse from misery:
His householdes yet: he makth in part,
As flockes of sheepe to ligh.

The Quiere.

God graunt that they would: prayse hartely then,
The Lorde for hys grace: so to sing in their quiere:
The wonders he doth: for the chylder of men,
Whose mercy so neare: to them did appeare.

42

That tymely they may: this ponder aryght,
As righteous man: in his duety so glad:
Is prest to reioyce: wyth a godly delyte,
Where mouth of the bad: shall dumly be sad.

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The conclusion.

Mans hart that is wise: these things wil aduise,
Pure thankes to procure: to hys God for his cure,
And thus hys deuise: may he iustly comprise,
Ryght oft is hys vre: by loue to allure,
Kynde mercy so sure: in hym doth endure,
Extoll hym I say: both by night and by day,
Ren neuer astray: from his mercifull way.

Certayne verses of the sayd Psalme otherwise translated.

When thus they cryed to God: thus set in woes excesse:
Ryght soone he dyd: deliuer them: from all theyr hard distresse.

For he led them the way: both ryght and prosperous:
Wherby they did: a citie fynde: to dwell commodious.

O that men would then prayse: the Lordes benignitie:
To tell what actes: ful strange he doth: to mans posteritie.

For that he doth refresh: the soule in thyrst so dry:
And filleth the soule: that hungry is: wyth goodnes largely.

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When thus they cryed to God thus set in woes excesse:
Ryght soone he dyd: deliuer them: from all theyr hard distresse.

For he then brought them forth: from darke and dedly shade:
He brake theyr bondes: and fetters strong: to freedom sure to wade.

O that men would then prayse: the Lordes benignitie:
To tell what actes: ful strange he doth: to mans posteritie.

For he the gates of brasse: hath all to shiuers broke:
And burst the barres: a sunder quite: in yron forgd by stroke.

When thus they cryed to God: thus set in woes excesse:
Ryght soone he dyd deliuer them: from all theyr hard distresse.

For he then sent hys worde: he them restord by might:
Wherby they scapte: destruction: from peryll saued quite.

O that men would then prayse: the Lordes benignitie:
To tell what actes: ful strange he doth: to mans posteritie.

That they would offer hym: of thankes the sacrifice:
And full tell out: hys workes so great: in glad and thankfull wyfe.

When thus they cryed to God: thus set in woes excesse:
Ryght soone he dyd: deliuer them: from all theyr hard distresse.

For he dryueth down the stormes: and makth them soone to cease
So that the waues: be still agayne: wherby they winne release.

Then are they glad at hart: because at rest they bee:
He bringth them thus: to that theyr hauen: which they so glad wold see.

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O that men would then prayse: the Lordes benignitie:
To tell what actes: ful strange he doth: to mans posteritie.

That they would hym exalt: when people most be met:
And prayse hym due: where Elders bee: together ioyntly set.

Though he doth beare a whyle: that tyrantes them oppresse,
And suffer them: to go astray: in wandryng wyldernesse.

Yet he doth helpe the poore: from hys great misery:
Hys householdes yet: he makth in part: as flockes of shepe to lye.

The righteous man wyll this: expend and eke reioyce:
Where that the mouth: of wickednes: shall whole be stopt in voyce

Who that is wyse I say: will ponder all these thynges:
They shall so know: what mercies free: the Lord in sorow bringes.

Psalme. CVIII.

The Argument.

When Dauid kept: Odollan caue,
Where Saule he scapte: for all hys raue:
Thus thankes in song: he dyd extende,
To God who did: hys lyfe defende.

Paratum cor.

1

My hart to God: is ready found,
Thy worthy laudes: deuout to sound:
For sing I will: and Psalmes recorde,
With glory due: in tong and worde.

2

Lyft vp thy selfe: thou Psaltrye sweete,
Thou harpe euen so: with tunes most meete,
For I my selfe: will early ryse,
Newe songes to sing: I wyll deuise.

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3

I thee wyll prayse: O Lord in songe.
In peoples sight: euen them among:
Yea Psalmes to thee: I wyll arrect.
Among all folke: of euery sect.

4

For farre aboue: the heauen we see,
Standth firmly thy: benignytie:
Thy fayth and truth: as proufe doth teache,
Most nye the cloudes: doth wholy reach.

5

Be thou exalt: O God on hye,
Aboue the heauens: in maiestye:
Aboue all earth: thy glory set,
That men may know: thy power so great.

6

That thy beloued: from wretchednes,
Whole rydde may be: in stablenesse:
Let thy right hand: than vs preserue,
O aunswere me: my turne to serue.

7

God spake his word: in holynes,
Wherein I ioy: and shall no lesse:
All Sychem iust: in partes I set,
And Sucoth vale: I also met.

8

All myne no doubt: is Gilead,
And so is myne: Manasses had:
And Ephraim: my reigne the strength,
And Iuda is: my guyde at length.

9

Land Moab is: my water pot,
And Idumye: my conquerd lot:
Wheron my sho: extend I wyll,
On Philistyne: ioy shall I still.

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10

Who hath me brought: to be so nye?
That cytye great: so walled hye:
Who led me forth: so iust to come,
To Idumye: to wynne renome?

11

Was it not thou: I say O God?
Which vs forsokst: cast wyde abroade:
Which didst not walke: as God with vs,
With our mayne hostes: victorious?

12

O geue vs helpe: and that at hand,
Of all our griefe: of troubles band:
For weake the helpe that man can do,
Most vayne to trust: it is euen so.

13

In God we shall: all strong endure,
By hym to do: aduentures sure:
And he our foes: shall sone debell,
To treade them down: though hie they swell.

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Psalme. CIX.

The Argument.

Here Dauid vext: by tyrannye,
hath Doegs spite bewrayed:
Whose successour: we Iudas spye,
who falsly Christ betrayed.

Deus laudem.

1

O God my ioy: and all my prayse: in whome I glory most:
Hold not thy peace: thy vertue rayse: destroy my haters bost.

2

For wycked mouthes: and mouthes of gile: at me be open set,
Wyth lying lippes: they me reuile: wyth tonges most false they iet.

3

Wyth hateful wordes: they compasse me: such gall in hart they haue
They fight at my: sinceritie: they causeles me depraue.

4

For loue I had: to them in hart: they seeke my hurt and bloud,
Yet dyd I pray: to ease my smart: wherin I wysht them good.

5

For good they euil: agayne requite: to malice so they bend,
And so for loue: I shewd in sight: whote hate they do repend.

6

Some wycked man: O constitute: on hym to breake hys band,
Let Satan stand: and execute: hys power agaynst hys hand.

7

When iudged he be: for any deede: let hym as gilty come,
Hys prayers whole: ill mought they speede: to sinne turnd all in some

8

And let his dayes: abriged be: in yeares but fewe to go,
His office eke: withall his fee: Some other take hym fro.

9

Let all his seede: and issue sprong: full sone be fatherles,
And let his wife: be widow young: and curst with barennesse.

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10

As wandrels make: his childrens stray: to beg & seeke their bread,
Depryued so: their houses gay: abroade to desert led.

11

Yea let his goodes: the vsurer: all wholy catch in net,
And let also: the forriner: by spoyle his labours fet.

12

Let no man be: in any place: to pitye hys distresse,
And no man helpe: with any grace: his children fatherles.

13

To wast be led: his progenye: to ioy in no degree,
Their name be blot: from memory: no second age to see.

14

His fathers crymes: be they reuiued: in mynde before the Lord,
His mothers sinne: to her deryued: and styll of God abhord.

15

Yea let them hange: in open sight: before the Lord for aye,
Dryue he their fame: all whole & quyte: from all the earth away.

16

Because no loue: he had in brest: to any nedy wight,
But did pursue: poore man opprest: to kill the hart contryte.

17

He curse ensued: he ioyed therin: it came hym home the more,
He blesse eschued: none would he wynne: it shal hym flee therfore.

18

To cursednes: he whole was set: as clad for all the nonce,
As water yet: his bowels wet: as oyle it pearst his bones.

19

Let it therfore: as cloke to be: hymselfe to wrape therin,
With gyrdell gyrt: so like be he: alway euen next the skyn.

20

This mede from God: to them befall: which me resist in hate,
To them euen all: in generall: agaynst my soule that prate.

21

But do thou Lord: my Lord with me: as it becommeth thy name,
For sweete is thy: benignitye: O ryd me far fro shame.

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22

For sore afflict: and poore I wepe: I am all destitute,
My hart within: is wounded deepe: in death nye constitute,

23

As shadow fast: I passe away: as day doth low declyne,
As grashopper: remouing aye: from place I am so dryuen.

24

My knees do reale: all fatigate: in fasting long from meate,
My flesh is dryed: for lacke of fat: or oyle to make it sweate.

25

A foule rebuke: to them I seemde: on me they strangely gase.
As laughing stocke: they me esteemd: & shoke their heads apace,

26

O helpe me Lord: my God withsaue: to thee alone I clyue,
Preserue me sure: thy grace I craue: and shortly me reuyue.

27

And let them knowe: in this thy ayde: that this is whole thy hand,
That thou thy selfe: my state hast layd: so strong by thee to stand.

28

And let them curse: so thou do blesse: O Lord of all most drad,
Yea let them rise: but foule to misse: to make thy seruaunt glad.

29

Let all my foes: with shame be broke: as clad therwith echone,
Let them be wrapt: as iust with cloke: in their confusion.

30

And I with mouth: will celebrate: the Lord with thankes on hye,
When people most: be congregate: I wyll his laudes applye.

31

For that he stode: in poore mans nede: at his right hand so strong,
To saue his soule: frō iudges drede who might him stroy by wrōg.

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Psalme. CX.

The Argument.

Though Dauids raigne: be somewhat ment,
Yet Christ is chiefe: here prophecied,
Who was both kyng: in regiment,
And priest in death: then after stied,
To heauen to sit: as priest and king,
His frendes to saue: his foes to wring.
Wyth death the sting.

Dixit dominus domino.

1

The Lord most hye: the father thus,
Dyd say to Christ: my Lord his sonne
Set thou in power: most glorious,
On my ryght hand: aboue the sunne,
Untill I make: thy foes euen all,
Thy low footestoole: to thee to fall.
As subiectes thrall.

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2

The Lord shall send: from Zion place,
Of thy great power: imperiall,
The royall rod: and princely mace,
Whence grace shall spring: originall,
Yea God shall say: thou God vp ryse,
To raigne amids: thyne enemies.
In princely wyse.

3

The people glad: in hartes delight,
Shall offer giftes: in worship free,
As conquest day: of thy great might,
In shinyng shew of sanctitie,
For why the dew: of thy swete birth,
As morne new sprong: dropth ioyfull mirth,
So seene on earth.

4

The Lord did sweare: and fast decreed,
He will hys worde: no tyme repent:
Which sayd thou art: a priest in deed,
A kingly priest: aye permanent,
Of order namde: Melchisedeck,
Whom peace and right: doth ioyntly decke,
As Gods elect.

5

The Lord as shield: kepth right thy hand,
To make thy raigne: inuincible,
He shall subdue: by sea and land
All power aduerse: most forcible,
He shall great kyngs: and Cesars wound,
In day of wrath: all them confound.
By fearefull sound.

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12

He iudgement true: shall exercise,
As iudge among: the Gentile sect,
All places he: shall full surprise,
Wyth bodies dead: on earth proiect
Abrode he shall: in sunder smyte,
The heds of realmes: that him wyll spyte,
Or scorne hys myght.

13

Though here exilde: he strayth as bond,
And shall in way: but water drynke,
Of homely brooke: as comth to hand,
Pursued to death: and wysht to sinke.
Yet he for thys: humilitie,
Shall lift hys head: in dignitie.
Eternally.

Psalme. CXI.

The Argument.

This laudatory is: and thankth Gods gentlenes,
Who made all thyng: and vs redeemd: from sinne and wretchednes.

Confitebor tibi.

1

With all my hart I will: the Lord commend on hye,
Met secretly: with faythfull men: in church eke openly.

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2

Full greate be all the factes: of this hye Lord in name,
Most exquisite: and may be found: of them that loue the same.

3

His deede is worthy prayse: most worshipfull I say,
It Glory is: and comlynes: his iustice lasts for aye.

4

Of all his wondrous workes: remembraunce hath he made,
The Lord is good: and mercifull: to Israell in trade.

5

For meat and spoyle he gaue: to them that feard hym due,
So myndfull he: will euer be: his pact and league to sue.

6

His actes great power shewd: to all his peoples sight,
In geuing them: the heritage: of Gentils landes for right.

7

His workes of hands be seene: all truth and equytye,
And his precepts: all faythfull be: in iust confirmytye.

8

Upholde they stand most firme: and euer wyll remayne,
For made they are: by verytye: and equytye agayne.

9

He sent hys people guydes: which them to freedome lad,
His pact he bad: should euer stand: whose holy name be drad.

10

The feare of God is sayd: of wisdome first the way,
Who keepe hys hests: haue wisdome cleare: whose prayse shal ner decay.

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[Psalme. CXII.

This doth recite,
The prayses right,
of hym that feareth the Lorde:
Whose constancy,
Lyeth perfectly,
in God by faythes accorde.

Beatus vir.

1

That man is blest: and liueth at rest: that fearth the Lord most pure,
Who hath delyte: most exquisite: to worke hys byddinges sure.

2

No doubt hys seede: shall firmly speede: in all felycitye,
These regents hye: theyr progenye: most blessed shall they be,

3

He riches store: in house the more: wyth plenty shall possesse,
Hys righteousnes: in stablenes: shall last and still increase.

4

And light shall spred: from darknes drede: to godly mens reliefe,
The Lord benigne: aye pitiyng: and iust to ease their griefe.

5

This blisfull man: he pitye can: and lend with diligence,
His word and deede: by wisdoms reede: he rightly shall dispence.

6

For moued he: can neuer be: Gods arme shall hym defend,
The iust shall sure: in fame endure: till all the world doth ende.

7

At tydyngs euyll: no tyme he wyll: stand dreadfully hymselfe,
Hys hart for why: stands stedfastly: he trustth the Lord of health.

8

His hart so great: is stable set: to feare nothyng aduerse,
Untyll hys eyes: their lust espies: on all hys foes peruerse.

9

He spredth hys store: he geueth the poore: hys iustice yet abidth,
His power shalbe: exalted free: with glory large and wyde.

10

The euyll shall see: and fret shall he: shall gnash his teth and lower,
The wicked lust: of men vniust: shall wast and turne full sower.

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Psalme. CXIII.

The Argument.

This praisth Gods grace on hie: therto it doth inuite,
His dignitie and prouidence: it doth in part endight.

Laudate pueri.

1

Ye seruauntes (all: ye) children meeke,
prayse ye the Lorde of all:
Prayse ye hys name: extoll ye due,
hys power potentiall.

2

Gods (worthy) name: be blest frō hence: tyl all ye world haue ende
To dread and loue: his power aboue: God graunt we all contende.

3

Frō time ye Sunne (doth shine) in rise: til downward fallth ye same
From East to West: O blessed be: the Lords sweete holy name.

4

For why (no fayle) the Lord doth rule: on Gentils all that be,
Yea heauens he passth: in glory bright: thys Lord of maiestie.

5

For who is lyke (this God) the Lord: in glory fame or power?
Who hath set vp: himselfe aboue: as chiefe and gouernour.

6

And yet he bowth: himselfe (full low) of hys great gentlenes,
All thynges that be: in heauen and earth: to see in carefulnes.

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7

And he it is (at will) alone: that liftth the poore from dust,
The nedy man: he doth promote: in dong that low was thrust.

8

To make hym (hye: and) equall sit: wyth Princes rule to beare:
Yea that wyth Peeres: of age most graue: of his own people deare

9

And he (alone) the baren makth: in fruitfull house to dwell,
As mother glad: to ioye in babes: O prayse the Lord then well.

Psalme. CXIIII.

The Argument.

Here ioy is made: that Iacobs seede,
Did Ægipt scape: in luckie speede:
That led they were: by Gods great might,
To Canaan land: to them behight.

In exitu.

1

When Israell: from Egipt went,
Where God them held: in chastisment:
When ryd from thrall: was Iacobs house,
Of people fierce: and barbarouse.

2

Then Iury land: was consecrate,
True God to serue: full dedicate:
Than Israell: was hys Empire,
Hys subiect made: to rule intyre.

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3

Which thing whan that: the sea did spye,
She fled to see: Gods power so nye:
And Iordan floud: reuersed was,
As geuyng place: hys arke to passe.

4

The mountaynes leapt: as Rammes full light,
Aboue the waues: th'appeard in sight:
The Hillockes eke: did skip full glad,
As Lambes in grasse: all fat bestad.

5

What meanst thou sea: to flee so fast?
Thou Iordan why: aback wart cast?
Was this the cause: Gods truthfull grace?
Or fathers fayth: that ye gaue place?

6

You Mountaynes hye: why leape ye thus?
As Rammes with fruite: most plenteous:
Ye litle hylles: why skypt ye so?
(Thys sight to see) as yong sheepe do?

7

At Gods bright face: the earth thus shooke,
At Iacobs Gods: most present loke,
Be whole adrad: than earth to see,
Thys puissant Lord: so nye to bee.

8

Whose power dyd turne: the stone to gushe,
Great water brokes: most merueylous:
The flint so hard: whence fier springth,
Euen water flouds: he made it bring.

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Psalme. CXV.

The Argument.

Thus Gentiles Gods: be scornd vnpure,
Where God of heauen: is God most sure:
On hym to trust: to lawd hym aye,
Who blessth our lyfe: and keepth our way.

Non nobis Domine.

1

No prayse geue vs: O Lord to vs,
Geue it thy name: most glorious:
For thy sweete loue: for thy good truth,
Defend vs Lord: and shew thy ruth.

2

Why els no doubt: the Heathen sect,
Would say where is: their God so tect?
If God they haue: as we in sight,
Let hym come forth: and shew his might.

3

But sure our God: is God in heauen,
Not made or seene: to carnall eyne:
He doth at will: what lyke hym best,
He made all thinges: by hym they rest.

4

Their Idols all: the best, they bee,
But siluer cast: and gold to see:
The handy worke: of mortall men,
They be thus made: full brittle then.

5

Wyde mouthes they haue: but speake no whit
Of speache but domme: to them most fit:
And eyes they haue: yet haue no sight,
All voyde of lyfe: all voyde of light.

6

So eares they haue: but heare nothyng,
How loud men cry: in halowing:
And nose they haue: but haue no tast,
Their brent incense: on them is wast.

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8

Yea handes they haue: but handle nat,
Two feete they haue: but haue no gate:
They make no voyce: from out theyr throtes,
Where yet small flies: haue open notes.

7

As those be all: so such be they,
Which make them first: of gold or clay:
And so be they: which worship them,
Or them do trust: in any realme.

9

But thou that seest: O Israell,
Trust thou the Lord: bid them farewell:
The Lord is whole: thyne ayde and shield,
Protectour sure: in towne and field.

10

Ye Aarons house: trust ye this Lord,
None other serue: to hym accord:
The Lord is whole: your ayde and shield,
Protectour sure: in towne and field.

11

All ye that feare: the Lord so hye,
Trust ye this Lord: to hym applye:
The Lord is whole: your ayde and shylde,
Protectour sure: in town and filde.

12

The Lord hath mynd: and careth for vs,
He wyll vs blesse: most prosperous:
And Iacobs house: so will he blesse,
Blesse Aarons house: he wyll not mysse.

13

Who feare the Lord: he blesse them all,
Both rich and poore: both great and small:
To do them good: is hys entent,
Who worship him: most reuerent.

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14

The Lord wyll adde: to your encrease,
To heape hys gyftes: he wyll not cease:
Uppon your selfe: in ioyfull cheare,
And after on: your children deare.

15

Ye are the Lordes: most blessed lot,
Yf feare in you: be not forgot,
The Lordes ye be: hys heritage,
Who made of heauen: and earth the stage.

16

The heauens so houge: the heauens I saye,
Be all the Lords: in whom they staye:
The earth he gaue: to men a place,
To dwell therin: to serue his grace.

17

The dead that be: prayse not the Lord,
No sence in them: no voyce or word:
Ne they whose corps: be layd to rest,
By them no laudes: can be exprest.

18

But we alyue: wyth voyce and hart,
Wyll prayse thys Lord: tyll we depart:
From thys tyme forth: and so for aye,
Than sing we styll: Alleluya.

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Psalme. CXVI.

The Argument.

When Dauid scapt: aduersitie,
to God wyth thankes he goes,
So man full past: all miserie,
may so hys hart disclose.

Dilexi quo niam.

1

I loued haue: the Lord and shall,
wyth all my hart for why:
He soone hath heard: my prayers all,
wyth voyce when I dyd cry.

2

Full nye I say: his eare he bent,
to me most redily:
Wherfore my dayes: that me be lent,
hym will I call most hye.

3

The snares of death: dyd close me in,
yea panges of hell me found:
Fell anguish smart: and woes betwene,
I felt about me round.

4

Eftsoones I cryed: in Gods good name:
for helpe and sayd euen thus:
O Lord I pray: thy grace I clame,
my soule from payne discusse.

5

Of clemency: the Lord is full,
and iust he is in worde:
And this our God: is mercifull,
which doth all grace aforde.

6

The Lord preseruth: the simple ones,
as abiectes counted here:
For lo my selfe: was wo begone,
and health he brought me nere.

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7

Wherfore I sayd: O turne agayne,
my soule into thy rest:
Since that the Lord: hath easd thy payne,
for thyne aduantage best.

8

For thou O Lord: hast ryd my feares,
my soule from death besyde:
And eke myne eyes: from wepyng teares,
my feete from falling wyde.

9

To walke in life: I purpose then,
before the Lord vpright:
Whyle here I lyue: with liuing men,
on earth to please his sight.

Credidi propter quod.

10

I held my fayth therout I spake,
to God in hope full strong:
Although with woes: my hart did quake,
and sorowes seamed long.

11

In all my flightes: so forst to flee,
I sayd thus halfe amasd:
All men on earth: but liers bee,
myne eyes were so adasd.

12

To quyte my Lord: what shall I geue,
hys benefites at length:
His grace so great: by whom I lyue,
surmounth my simple strength.

13

I will take vp: and heaue on hye,
the cuppe of thankfulnes:
And Gods good name: besech wyll I,
who compast all my wealth,

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14

To God my Lord: I now will paye,
my vowes that I behight:
With thankfull hart: from day to daye,
In all hys peoples sight.

15

The Lord no doubt: full deare reputes,
the death of all his saynts:
He taketh to hart: their wrong pursuts:
and heareth their wofull playnts.

16

For truth, lo I: thy seruaunt lord,
thy seruaunt this may speake:
Thy hand maydes sonne: can this record,
for thou my bandes didst breake.

17

To thee therfore: I offer shall,
of thanckes the sacrifice:
The lordes good name: theron to call,
I will in gratefull wise.

18

To God my Lord: I wyll repaye,
my vowes that I behight:
With thankfull hart: from daye to daye,
in all hys peoples sight.

19

In all the courtes: euen iust in them,
of Gods hye house so bright:
In mydst of thee: Hierusalem,
O prayse this Lord aright.

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Psalme. CXVII.

The Argument.

This Hymne doth endight,
Gods glorious might,—
His truth and grace most free,
That Gentils a farre,
Were made to be narre,
With Iewes one flocke to bee.

Laudate Dominum.

1

Prayse duly ye lord: in myndful accord: ye hethen ones all vayne,
Ye Gentils I bid: recount how ye slid: & prayse this Lord agayne.
And honour ye right: this Lord in his light: ye nations all in town
All people I say: where euer ye lay: extoll this Lordes renowne

2

For meerly hys grace: and mercifull face: confirmd lyeth on vs all:
Hys loue doth excell: all sinne to debell: his grace is generall.
This lord in his truth: most stable ensuth: his word & promise iust
The faith of his way: will neuer decay: O praise this lord of trust

Psalme. CXVIII.

The Argument.

This Psalme is sung: of prayse and laudes: that Dauids rule begonne:
In sprite it shewth: and ioyeth the raigne: of Christ Gods onely sonne.

Confitemi ni domino

1

O thanke and laud: the heauenly lord: for he is gracious,
Because his loue: and mercy free: for euer standth to vs.

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2

Let Israell: nowe glad confesse: wyth song melodious,
Because his loue: and mercy free: for euer standeth to vs.

3

Let Aarons house: and stocke confesse: in thankes most plenteous,
Because his loue: and mercy free: for euer standeth to vs.

4

Yea let them all: that feare the Lord: this grace in hart discusse,
Because his loue: and mercy free: for euer standeth to vs.

5

In trouble layd: to straytes be thrust: I cald the Lord from thence
He hard at large: and set me wyde: this Lord of excellence.

6

The Lord as thus: with me to stand: on my nye side to be,
I can not feare: for what can man: preuayle in spite at me.

7

The Lord takth part: with them to ioyne: that me do helpe & ayde
Myne eyes shall see: their full desire: my foes reuengd and frayd.

8

O good it is: the Lord to trust: on hym all hope to cast,
More sure it is: then man to trust: on hym to leane to fast.

9

Yea good it is: the Lord to trust: to hym all whole to stand,
More safe it is: then Prince to trust: with all hys gard and band.

10

Though nations all: do compasse me: and hedge me round about,
By name (I trust (of this the Lord: I shall cut downe theyr route.

11

Let them besege: and compasse me: on euery side at wyll,
The Lordes good name: I hope therby: theyr pride to quel & kill.

12

Though they lyke bees: swarme me about: to sting, to hurt, to noye
They soone shall fade: as fyer in thornes: in God I shall them stroy.

13

By pushing oft: they thrust at me: to make me full agast,
But yet the Lord: my piller strong: was whole my stay ful fast.

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14

The Lord of power: my strength he is: of laudes my tenors style,
For he was made: my health and fence: to scape all mortall guyle.

15

The voyce of ioye: and healthful mirth: rebound in iust mens tents
For why ful great: the Lords right hand: hath wrought experimēts.

16

The Lords ryght hand: exalted is: hys power is clearly knowen,
The lords right hand: great feates hath done: mans strength is not his owne

17

Not dead I am: but liue as yet: and trust to spend my dayes,
To tell Gods workes: his mighty actes: by whom my liuing stayes.

18

The Lord although: he me correct: in chastisment most fyt,
Yet downe to death: he draue me not: he would not so permyt.

19

Ope me the gates: of righteousnes: that iust men vse to haunt,
To enter now: Gods temple so: the Lord with prayse to vaunt.

20

This gate is wyde: the Lord his gate: where due his grace is spred
All rightwise men: do passe therin: who faythfull life haue led.

21

I wyll wyth thankes: set out thy prayse: for thou hast answerd me
Though thou didst strike: yet ease thou setst: for helth I had by thee.

22

The stone it selfe: which was reiect: by all the buylders choyce,
Was made the heade: and corner stone: to all good mens reioyce.

23

From god the Lord: this act issued: his worke it was alone,
A thing it is: most meruelous: in all our eyes so done.

24

This is the day: the ioyfull day: which that the Lord hath made,
Let vs therin: reioyce and sing: a day that shall not fade,

25

Ah Lord helpe now: and saue I praye: assist vs presently,
O Lord on hye: geue helpe I praye: good lucke send speedely,

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26

O blest be he: that comth as thus: in God the Lords good name,
To you as we: gods house that kepe: haue wisht good lucke & fame.

27

God is the Lord: and lightned vs: all health who luckly sendes,
Sprede bowes therfore: and bynde your hosts: with cords at alters endes

28

Thou art my God: whom thanke I will: whom I shall celebrate,
Thou art my God: to whom my laudes: I will whole dedicate.

29

O thanke and laude: the heauenly Lord: for he is gracious,
Because his loue: and mercy free: for euer standeth to vs.

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Psalme. CXIX

A Preface to the Psalme. 119.

Made is this Psalme: by Alphabete: in Octonaries folde,
All letters two: and twentie set: as Hebrues them haue tolde.
The verses all: an hundred bee: threescore and iust sixtene,
Thus framde and knit: for memorie: and elegance some wene.
Here letters all: so sortely bound: do shew in mysterie:
Eternall health: may sure be found: in scripture totallie.
Uerse yokt by eight: Christes rising day: doth figure them in some,
Sweete Saboth rest: not here I say: I meane of world to come.
Peruse this psalme: so wide and brode: eche verse saue one is freight
As still in termes: of law of God: most ofte by voyces eyght.
Right statutes, olde precepts, decrees: cōmaundemēts, word, & law.
Known iudgemēts, domes, & witnesses: al rightous wais thei draw
Enuie no man: Gods worde to painte: in arte by such deuise,
Reade Hebrue tonge: the tong so sainte: and causeles be not nise.
Upfolde be here: Gods truthes discust: right sure vs all to teache,
So lies of man: all low be thrust: full false in glosing speache.

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The Argument.

This Psalme dewrayth: good mens desire,
Gods law to know so milde:
Which Dauid prayth: whom men in ire,
Did curse, from home exilde.

Aleph. 1.

Beati imculati.

1

A rightvp man: of perfect wayes: is blest and blest agayne,
As blest be they which walke their dayes: in gods true law so playne.

2

And yet I speake: so blest they be: who kepe his witnesses,
All whole in hart: which will agree: to search Gods promises.

3

Admit they do: no sinfulnes: who walke his pathes alwayes,
At wil who worke: but wickednes: they tread not these his wayes.

4

Aduisedly: thou gauest in charge: thy hests that we should kepe,
Approued so: by thee at large: for vs most due to leke.

5

Ah then O lord: where yu wilt so: would God my wayes were steyd
Affected right: in hart to go: thy statutes iustly leyd.

6

Ashamed then: I shall not shrinke: in hart or visage cold,
Abacke to stand: what tyme I thinke: thy lawes and them behold.

7

Ascribe will I: to thee my thanke: in hart most right and clene:
Assoone as I: shall learne so franke: thy iudgements iust besene.

8

Agayne I vow: withall my hart: to kepe thy true decrees:
A far then Lord: do not depart: from me thy grace to leese.

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Beth. 2. In quo corigit.

1

By what or how: can yong man clense: or yet reforme his way,
Best, word of thyne: if he the sence: will warely kepe I saye.

2

Betymes where I thy word haue sought: with all my harts entent
Be guyde, lest I: might erre in thought: from thy commaundemēt.

3

By lowe I hyd: thy word in hart: thy willes inspird to kepe,
Blasphemingly: lest might I start: from thee in sinne to deepe.

4

Both blest and praysed: thou doost remayne: O lord of secrecye,
Bestryde my hart: and teach my brayne: thy statutes inwardly.

5

Bold haue I bene: and euer shall: by thee with tong to tell,
Before all men: thy iudgements all: which once thou spakst so well.

6

Blith whole my hart: did ioye to trace: thy testimonyes wayes,
Beholding them: more glad in face: than riches gaynfull prayse,

7

Bestowe I will: my tyme and talke: in thy precepts to muse,
Beside to note: thy wondrous walke: no tyme I will refuse.

8

Besport me still: I purpose me: in thy decrees whole set,
Beleue I haue: thy wordes decree: no tyme I shall forget.

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Ghimel. 3. Retribue.

1

Confirme O lord: thy seruantes will: with thy good grace so meke
Consist that I: in lyfe may still: so iust thy wordes to kepe.

2

Cleare thou mine eies: both darke & thral: reforme my sprite afresh
Consider then: thy law I shall: what meruels they expresse.

3

Cast here on earth: as Pilgrimes be: I am poore traueler,
Conceale not Lord: thy law from me: depart not thou to fer.

4

Consume do I: afflict in sprite: for loue to know thy worde,
Comprise I would: alwayes aright: thy iudgements hye O Lorde.

5

Correct thou doost: the proud therfore: which thy precepts despise,
Curst be they all: from thy good lore: who wander wyll to nyse.

6

Contempt and shame: frō me remoue: which proud men cast on me
Content for that: in lyfe I loue: thy lawes to testifie.

7

Chiefe Princes lo: in counsell sate: and me they hie controld:
Chaunge yet my choyce: so would I not: I vsed thy statutes bold.

8

Cause why, to me: thy witnesses: are whole my hartes delites,
Close counsellers: they be no lesse: agaynst these cursed wyghtes,

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Daleth. 4. Adhesit.

1

Deare Lord to dust: my soule is knit: nye dead I ligh for griefe:
Draw nye my life: and quicken it: with thy sweete wordes reliefe.

2

Detect I haue: my wayes to thee: thou aunswerdst me agayne:
Declare thy will: that I may see: in hart thy statutes playne.

3

Due sence geue me: to vnderstand: the wayes of thy preceptes,
Demure I will: then take in hand: to talke thy wondrous steppes.

4

Distemperd cares: dyd melt my hart: to note the worldes despite,
Deale then some ease: in gentle part: as thy true worde hath hight.

5

Deliuer me: from lying wayes: from suttle glosing sect:
Delite my hart: in all thy layes: vouchsaue this good effect.

6

Do this for why: right path of lyfe: I haue now chosen due,
Deteyne I will: myne eyes so rife: to vew thy iudgements true.

7

Directly Lord: where hold I haue: thy testimonyes fast,
Defame me not: of thee I craue: to fall by shame agast.

8

Deliuerly: runne shall I light: thy lawes the perfect gate:
Dilated large: when thou in sprite: shalt make it ioy in state.

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He. 5. Legem pone.

1

Eternall God: teach me the way: of thy most iust decrees:
Euen then I shall: kepe them all day: in all their full degrees.

2

Employ my wits: to perfectnes: so hold thy law I may,
Effect therof: I shall expresse: wyth all my hartes assay.

3

Eke lead me strayt: to see the path: of thy preceptes most right,
Elect for why: my hart them hath: wherin I most delite.

4

Egge thou my hart: to magnifie: thy testimonies all,
Escape that I: may vtterly: foule auarice thee gall.

5

Erect myne eyes: not down to cliue: by lustes to things most vayne
Encleare my sight: and me reuiue: thy wayes to loue the trayne.

6

Establish Lord: thy worde all sure: thy seruaunt lo I am,
Els could not I: thy feare procure: to reuerence thy name.

7

Eftsoones remoue: the brute vnswete: of shame that I do feare,
Espy I do: thy doomes discrete: all mixt with mercy deare.

8

Enforst I haue: lo all my minde: thy statutes iust to sue:
Encourage me: soone them to finde: I craue thy iustice true.

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Vau. 6. Et veniat.

1

First Lord I craue: thy grace deuyne: thy mercyes sweete to feele,
Fence thou my soule: with health of thyne: as thy true word doth deale.

2

Fynd thus I maye: to answere right: and dul blasphemers slents
Fast that my hope: is wholly plight: to thyne aduertisments.

3

Farre driue not lord: thy word most sure frō out my mouth to stray
Full still for why: I will endure: to wayte thy iudgements way.

4

Ferme will I kepe: thy laye and lore: sith thou wilt teach the way,
Fayth still to beare: I wyll the more: from age to age for aye.

5

Fayre walke and large: thus shall I hold: in conscience vpright,
Forth on where I: do seeke so bolde: thy cleare precepts in light.

6

Free shall my tong: thy witnes tell: before both Lord and king,
Foule shame shall not: my hart debell: to shrinke for manacyng

7

Fro thence I shall: my comfort fynd: thy lawes shall me delyte,
Fresh loue I beare: to them in mynde: no tyme to slyde to lighte.

8

Fold vp my hands: I will full hye: to thy commaundements,
For them I loue: and muse shall I: thy stable testaments.

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Zain. 7. Memor esto.

1

God call to mynde: thy promise graue: to me thy seruaunt frayle,
Good hope therin: thou madest me haue: to my poore soules auayle.

2

Greate comfort this: gaue me in thought: in payne whē I did lye,
Glad hart for why: thy word me wrought: as whole reuiued therby

3

Grym stately men: though one by one: most hye do me deryde,
Gone yet a backe: I haue not done: from thy true lawe aside.

4

Graue thoughts had I: & cast in mind: thy iudgemēts lord frō first,
Gat so I did: my comfort kynd: to slake my wofull thirst.

5

Greued sore I am: most horribly: at wicked mens ententes:
Glyde fast they do: so shamefully: from all thy lawes contentes.

6

Grate songes in verse: I do deuise: of thy sweete statutes lore:
Gest when I am: in wandryng wyse: abrode afflicted sore.

7

Grauen depe in mynd: thy name by night: O Lord ful oft I had:
Glue fast to hart: that so I myght: thy law that I had rad.

8

Grace thus dyd grow: to me so greene: for that thy law I kepe:
Graunt then O Lord: I may be seene: thy wyll alway to seke.

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Heth. 8. Portio me.

1

Hole portion Lord: thou art of myne: to thee alone I clyue:
Hold will I iust: thy law deuine: though men for lies do striue.

2

How deepe in hart: thou seest all day: I haue thy face besought:
Haue mercy then, on me I pray: such trust thy worde hath taught.

3

Here how I liue: what wayes I lead: I haue discust full nere:
Home so to turne: thy lawes to pleade: my feete I did retire.

4

Hast made I fast: my fault espied: no tyme then troyted I:
Hart, hand, and tong: I straite applied: to kepe thy lawes more nye.

5

Haut wicked men: on heapes they met: to robbe from me my trust:
Hard yet in hart: thy law I kept: though sore at me they thrust.

6

Hye midnight iust: my tyde is set: to rise thy name to blesse:
Harke so I shall: and spie the bet: thy iudgements righteousnesse.

7

Hoste me I will: with them to dwell: which thee do duely feare:
Hyd who do kepe: thy hestes full well: in hart to mynd them cleare.

8

Hyll, dale, and vale: the earth is full: thy mercies Lord to tell:
Helpe thou therfore: my wits so dull: teach me thy statutes spell.

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Teth. 9. Bonitatem fecisti.

1

I Lord confesse: thou dealst full kynd: with me thy seruaunt frayle:
In thy good worde: such grace I fynde: thy promise neuer fayle.

2

Inspire right tast: of discipline: and me sound knowledge teach:
Iust haue I hold: the lawes of thyne: most firmly them to seach.

3

Inuegeled foule: awry I went: before I was correct:
Imprint I now: thy testament: in hart thus gently checkt.

4

Intirely good: and liberall: thou art who can deny:
Illumine then: my senses all: thy statutes well to spy.

5

Ill men and proud: theyr traps haue set: to spot my truth with lyes,
Inure my hart: I purpose yet: all whole thy lawes to vise.

6

Inlarded is: their hart with pride: they swell in fat and grease:
Inuy I not: their ioyes so wide: thy lawes can me refresh.

7

It wrought me wealth: so good it was: that troubles me did strayne.
Indued was so: my soule with grace: to learne thy statutes playne.

8

Ioy more I do: the law of thyne: which thy sweete lips pronounce:
Infinitely: then siluer fine: or gold a thousand ounce.

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Iod. 10 Manus tue.

1

King, Lord, & God: thou art to me: thou madst & formdst my shape,
Kerne depe my hart: wt knowledge free: thy word in mind to wrap.

2

Kynd louyng men: that worship thee: wyll ioy at me right soone,
Keyd fast thy word: was so to me: in hope that I haue done.

3

Know well I do: in thys thy rod: thy iudgements all be iust,
Known worthy is: thy truth O God: which humbled me to dust.

4

Kysse thou my soule: by louing grace: some comfort sweete to feele,
Knyt iust thy word: though I be base: thy man yet euery deale.

5

Kneele lowe I will: to aske full sad: thy mercyes all in sight,
Keepe than my life: I shall full glad: for I thy lawe delyte.

6

Kil down ye proud: confound their lies: they me wold vayn peruert
Koole thou their heate: and I will ryse: to preach thy lawes apart.

7

Kenne they thy lawes: as turnde to me: who duely thee do feare,
Known right who haue: thy dignitie: thy word with me do beare.

8

Knocke, aske, and seeke: I will, and weepe: in hart thy word to spie,
Knead els in mire: of error deepe: I should most shamefully.

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Cap. 11. Defecit.

1

Longd hath my soule: and languished: while I thy helth expect:
Lord yet thy word: me comforted: for hope dyd me erect.

2

Lo both myne eyes: did faynt and wast: thy promise still to wayte,
Lowd thus I spake: when wilt thou cast: thy helpe to ease my strayt.

3

Lyke though I was: to bottle dryed: in smoke so was my skyn,
Leaue would I not: thy statutes tryed: I kept yet mynd therin.

4

Leafe Lord my dayes: how lōg to go: thy seruaūt fayn would know
Long wilt thou slake: erre thou my foe: wilt iudge who thrust me lowe.

5

Lyme pittes full slye: these lurdens proud: did digge in crafty sort,
Lyes lowd they made: not well auowed: by thy true lawes report.

6

Life, truth and way: thy lawes contayne: though words they prate vntrue
Lend me thy helpe: where men so vayne: do falsly me pursue.

7

Large sautes they made: to make me sinke: well nye they had me spent:
Loth yet I was: in hart to shrinke: from thy commaundement.

8

Let then thy grace: and gentlenesse: refresh and me reuiue:
Loue so I shall: and will expresse: thy wordes of mouth belyue.

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Lamed. 12. In eternum domine.

1

Meke Lord thy word: most stable lieth as heuen: is permanent:
Most strong it is: as testefieth: the starry fyrmament.

2

Man trust may thee: thy fayth so standth: in truth from age to age:
Marke wel we do: the earth & lond: how fyrme thou madst the stage.

3

Made fast they bid: by thy decree: vntil this present day:
Meete seruice all: do yeld to thee: In all theyr course and sway.

4

My chief delyte: and ornament: onlesse thy law had ben:
More deepe in wo: I had ben shent: whole quenched quite & cleane.

5

Mind stil I will: thy lawes precept: and neuer it forget:
Me still in life: it dayly kept: by thee this grace I get.

6

Maineteyn my life: for thine so wrought: I am most congruent,
Midst whole in hart: for why I sought: thy true commaundement.

7

Mad men in harte: vngodly men: awayted me to kill:
Muse yet I did: full oft agayne: thy testimonyes wyll.

8

Moch noted I: things finest tried: drue fast to brittle ende:
Meere infinite: thy law I spied: whose bredth no time could spende.

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Mem. 13. Quam dilexi.

1

Nye loue in hart: thy law I beare: such hope therby I winne:
No day doth passe: but that I steare: my mind to muse therein.

2

Now hast thou made: my wit excell: my foes by thy precepts:
No time there is: but that I mel: with them in my concepts.

3

Note this I do: I am more wise: then all my teachers be:
No dout for this: that I aduise: thy testimonies free.

4

Not aged men: haue knowlege like: I them exceede to far:
No question: for that I kepe: thy lawes familier.

5

Nedes must I stey: and so I do: my feete from path of vice:
No witherward: aside to go: but keepe thy words deuise.

6

Nought do I shrinke: one ynch awry: from thy decrees amisse:
No prayse to me: doth rise therby: for thou hast taught me this.

7

New fragant tast: by thy sweete word: O how my pallat felt:
No hony combe: set on my bourd: such swetenes euer delt.

8

Notorious: my wisdome grew: by thy commaundements:
No wicked wayes: then will I sue: I hate all crafty flents.

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Nun. 14. Lucerna.

1

O Lord thy word: a lanterne is: full cleare to guide my feete:
Ondoubted light: that will not misse: to rule my pathes most meete.

2

Oth once I spake: and promise made: in hart I full decreed:
Obserue that I: should whole in trade: thy iust and righteous reede.

3

Opprest I am: O Lord to hye: in soule, in sprite, in flesh:
Of this sore crosse: reuiue thou me: thy worde pretendth no lesse.

4

Oh let my mouthes: free sacrifice: please thee O Lord at will:
Ope thou my wits in ghostly wyse: teach me thy iudgementes skill.

5

Onsure my lyfe: all day I see: my soule lyeth aye in hand:
Obliuious yet: thy law to flee: I will not so be bond.

6

Onrightfull men: and obstinate: for me a snare haue layd,
Offend thy law: yet will I not: to renne from it astraid.

7

Obtaynd I haue: thy witnesses: in iust fee simple state:
Oblected so: my fansy is: with them most delicate.

8

One thing in hart: inclynde I to: to worke thy statutes lore:
Once this to misse: I will not so: to ende for euermore.

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Samech. 15. Iniquos.

1

Presumpteous men: which guiles deuise: I hate as hypocrites:
Pure law of thine: most hie I prise: for that all truth behightes.

2

Protectour thou: thou art my bower: thou art my trusty shield:
Persist I will in thy good power: I trust thy word so mylde.

3

Part ye from me: malignaunt men: your by pathes wrong I hate:
Performe I shall: more iust and playne: my Gods precepts in gate.

4

Plucke vp my hart: O me sustayne: by thy sweete worde to lyue:
Pinche not my hope: with shames disdayn: to make my hart to riue

5

Preserue me still: in sure defence: so safe I shall remayne:
Promoote thy wordes: intelligence: I shall alway full fayne.

6

Presse downe thou wilt: all thē to nought: which erre frō thy decrees
Playne lies they forge: in crafty thought: they frame but fallacies.

7

Proud men lyke drosse: thou wilt remoue: which iet in earth so stout
Precellently: therfore I loue: thy witnesses full out.

8

Perplext wt feares: my flesh doth shake: when I thy power do marke
Profound afrayes; my soule haue take: thy iudgements be so darke

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Ain. 16. Feci iudicium.

1

Quite out my life: I delt with that: which lawfull was and right:
To Quarelers: vp geue me not: my soule with wrong to spite.

2

Queynt thou my hart: delightfully: in things of perfect name:
In Quire ellys will: the proud therby: Some cause my life to shame.

3

Quicke sight I lost: Mine eyes wer wast: for wayting long thy helth
I Quothd and sight: and longed fast: thy rightwise worde of wealth.

4

Quit me O Lord: thy seruaunt poore: from sinne and mercy reatch:
So Quicken me: in all thy lore: and me thy statutes teach.

5

Quire out the truth: that right I may: O vnderstanding graunt:
In Quiet mind: to thee I pray: as seruaunt suppliant.

6

Qualms ouerwhelmd: my wofull hart: for men haue stroyd thy law:
O Quel them Lord: as iudge thou art: the time doth aske thine aw.

7

Quench not my sprit: with these thy foen: for I thy lawes do loue:
No Querry geuyth: such gold or stone: which I would prise aboue.

8

Quake might my hart: if all thy lawes: I held not all the best
No Question: I loue thy sawes: all false wayes I detest

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Pe. 17. Mirabilia.

1

Right wonderfull: set hy aloft: thy testimonies are:
Reuolue therfore: then will I oft: my soule shall kepe them nar.

2

Resort who doth: thy law the doore: winth light as shewth the profe,
Ripe wisdome riseth: therby in store: to simple mens behoue

3

Rayse vp my mouth: I did apert: for wind my breth I drew:
Refresht for that: I wisht my hart: with thy sweete statutes vew.

4

Respect me Lord: not me refuse: my strength were els but lame
Rue than on me: as thou dost vse: on them that loue thy name.

5

Rule thou my steps: thy word to tread: forme them to lyue therby:
Reigne can no pride: in all my head: to vanity to fly.

6

Redeme me Lord: from iniury: of men in quarels vayne:
Retayne I may: more constantly: thy constitutions plaine.

7

Reueale to me: thy seruant true: thy louely face so bright:
Renue my sprite: my soule endue: teach me thy statutes right.

8

Ran down my cheekes: did water streames: for ye thy law they balke
Rough cheare I made: to note all realms: against thy law to walke.

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Zadic. 18. Iustus es Domine.

1

Seene right thou art: full good and iust: O Lord in veritie:
So righteous be: thy domes discust: all iudged in equitie.

2

Strayt hast thou chargd: that mē should haunt: thy testimonies reede
Still fayth to speake: still truth to graunt: most vehement at neede.

3

Sower zeale fret me: in gelousie: for ire nye spent I was:
Set whole for that: my foes I spy: from all thy wordes to passe.

4

Skord cleane full out: thy word is seene: fine tride frō drosse vnpure:
Sticke fast to it: thy seruaunt meanth: in hart to loue it sure.

5

Smal though I seeme: and vile at eye: to vaunting insolentes,
Slide yet shall not: my memory: from thy commaundements.

6

Sound righteousnes: thy iustice is: and that which still will last,
Sure truth thy law: is so iwisse: I trust therto full fast.

7

Smart woes & sharpe: when they did presse: & I by spite abused:
Sweete comfort yet: did me refresh: thy hestes when I perused.

8

Stand euer shall: thy witnesses: in ryghteousnes to stay,
Send wisdome then: well teach me this: that euer lyue I may.

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Coph. 19. Clamaui.

1

Thy grace to winne: cried loud I haue from hart effectuall:
Then aunswere me: O Lord with saue: thy statutes kepe I shall.

2

To thee I suyd: O saue me thou: I sued to none beside:
That iust I may: in life avow: thy testimonies tried.

3

The dawning day: preuentingly: I cried most earnest than:
Trust fast I did: thy words for why: my hope therby I wan.

4

Tyme watch of night: mine eyes preuent: so rath I then awoke:
Thus that I might: some thing commēt: of thy true word on booke

5

Tourn Lord thine eare: my voyce to heare: thy mercies aske euē so:
Touch thou my hart: reuiue me cleare: as thou doost vse to do.

6

They tread full nye: that would on me: their malyce execute:
Twind far they be: thy law to fle: O Lord be my refute.

7

Tread thou as nye: O Lord with ayde: for God thou art at hand:
True be thy lawes: all iustly layd: their wayes be mad and fond.

8

Taught am I sure: earst long ago: of all thy witnesses:
Through thee were set: most groundly so: that they wil neuer misse

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Res. 20. Vide humilitatem.

1

Uyse thou my wo: and rid my smart: thou seest exild I am:
When yet thy law: from inward hart: forgotten neuer cam.

2

Uphold my cause: and me release: so free redeamd to ryse:
Wast not my life: but me refresh: in thy words warantise.

3

Ungodly men: from health ren far: and health ren far fro them:
Wyde fle they foul: for why they erre: thy words they search not thē

4

Use still thy grace: O Lord of might: thy mercies great be seene:
With life, and ioy, refresh my sprite: as earst thy wont hath bene.

5

Uaine men there be: right many one: which me pursue and presse:
Ware yet I am: to swerue to sone: from thy sweete witnesses.

6

Uyle men I spied: transgresse thy law: for grief therof I quoke:
Which was because: at eie I saw: thy lawes how they forsooke.

7

Uew thou my hart: O Lord & see: how thy precepts I loued:
Wherefore by grace: reuiue thou me: not whole frō thee remoued.

8

Uouch this I may: thy word in chiefe: in some is truth most pure:
Wast can no time: thy lawes relief: thy domes aye Iust will dure.

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Sin. 21. Principes.

1

Xtremly Lord: I am pursued: of princes vndeserued.
Xactly yet: thy woord I vewd: I them with feare preserued.

2

Xteme I do: thy word so glad: and ioy therof as mich:
Xceding Ioy: as he hath had: that spoyles hath found most rich.

3

Xcesse of lyes: I haue abhorde: I haue them aye defied:
Xtend I haue: my loues accord: to all thy lawes so tried.

4

Xprest I haue: thy lawdes most deare: seuen times a day no lesse:
Xpending iust: thy domes so cleare: full wrought in southfastnes.

5

Xcellent peace: in conscience: haue they which loue thy lawe
Xchew they can: all light offence: no harme to them can draw.

6

Xpect I do: thy helpe and health: O Lord to thee I pleade:
Xcited so: I haue my selfe: thy iust preceptes to treade.

7

Xquisitly: In soule I kept: thy testimonies hye:
Xpert by vse: I them accept: in loue exceedingly.

8

Xalt I haue: thy statutes right: and eke thy witnesses:
Xempt from thee: to scape thy sight: I can no secrecies.

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Tau. 22. Appropinquet.

1

Yeld Lord assent: with eares vnshit: to heare these lawds I sing:
Yt mought please the: to graunt me wit: as thy word vse to bringe.

2

Yet once I pray: myne sute euen so: admit before thy face:
Yll mens despites: O take me fro: thy word so worketh in grace.

3

Ymnes, Psalms, & songs: my lips shal sound: such cōmēdatiōs braue
Yf thou wilt teach: my hart the ground: thy lawes in hart to graue.

4

Yea sure my tong: shall still expresse: thy word deseruingly:
Yokt so with truth: and rightwisenesse: thy whole precepts I spy.

5

Yere after yere: me then vpshore: with thy good helping hand:
Yong did I chose: (thou knowst) thy lore: to thy decrees to stand.

6

Yearnd hath my hart: and wished long: thy health to feele so meete:
Yies, head, and hand: haue loued as strong: thy law to me so sweete.

7

Yeld still I will: O life prolonge: my soule shall prayse thee then:
Yane shall I wide: for ayde among: for thou dost ayde all men.

8

Youth made me erre: as sheepe but lost: seeke vp thy seruant Lord:
Yes seeke him Lord: bestow the cost: thy law me not abhord.

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Obseruations.

These fiftene Psalmes: next followyng,
Be songs denamd: of steps or stayers,
For that the quiere: on them dyd sing,
The peoples vowes: to blisse by prayers,
For lucky speede: in theyr affayres,
As neede and tyme: as case dyd bryng.
In wedlocke, warre: or house begonne,
For peace, for ayde: for freedome wonne,

Psalme. CXX.

The Argument.

When Dauid felt: all spite of man,
All helpe of God: he then optaynd:
By whome alone: reliefe he wan,
From hard disease: that hym constraynd.
Well trust we than,
When we be paynd.

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Ad dominum cum trib.

1. Canticum graduum.

1

To God when I: was vext wyth smart,
By wrongfull meanes: of man opprest:
I cryed in voyce: I cryed in hart,
He aunswerd me: at my request,
In gentle part,
He gaue me rest.

2

For thus I sayd: and still will say,
O Lord my soule: deliuer free:
From lying lips: saue me I pray,
From crafty tonges: that double bee.
But set all day,
To vanitie.

3

What shalt thou winne: what gayne or gift?
Thou crafty tong: with all thy spyte:
Or what may that: increase thy thirst,
False tong to vse: in such delyte?
What is thy drift?
What winst in sight

4

Euen this thou wynst: sharpe dartes and fell,
Of Gods strong hand: in dreadfull feare:
Whose strength shall send: thy spite to hell,
As whote as coales: of Iuniper.
And marke it well,
In mynd it beare.

5

O wo is me: that myne abode,
Is still prolongd in hard exile:
Thus forst to dwell: as cast abrode,
In Ceder tentes: both blacke and vyle.
O helpe me God,
Me reconcile.

6

Ah long to long: my soule abydth,
Wyth such as hate: good loue and peace:
With people rough: of hawty pryde,
Which fierce in hart: on me do preace,
O cast them wyde,
Their magre cease.

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7

Whan peace I seeke: they cry to warre,
Whan fayre I speake they threat the more:
Whan them I sue: they driue me farre:
Thus gall for loue: I gaine in store.
O God be narre,
Help me therfore.

Psalme. CXXI.

The Argument.

As Dauid here: so other king,
Nie toward warre: ought thus beginne:
The people than: hym following,
Should wishe hym spede: Gods ayde to winn
Thus comth he in.

Leuaui oculos.

2 Canticum graduum.

1

To heauenly hils: I lift mine eyes,
In faythfull hart: euen there direct.
Frō whence can els: my help arise?
Gods foes to quel: this cursed sect.
O cursed sect.

2

Let all my help: come whole from God
Who made this heauen: and earth to see:
Though other stray: most far abroade,
His will his arme: my trust shalbe.
My folke speake yee.

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3

We trust and pray: that God of hosts
Will not permit: thy foote to slyde:
But make thee beate: the Paynyms bostes,
He sleepeth not he: that kepeth thy side.
His ayde is tried.

4

For lo he will: not slomber once
Much more, deepe sleepe: he will repell
But keepe he will: his little ones,
He warden is: of Israell.
We trust him well.

5

The Lord himselfe: wilbe thy shield.
The Lord shalbe: thy shadowes bower:
At thy right hand: most nye in field
He will thee keepe: both day and hower.
By godly power.

6

The sunne by day: shall thee not burne,
But shine therof: shall cleare thy way,
The moone by night: shall serue thy turne:
Her frory hornes: shall thee not fray.
But be thy stay.

7

The Lord our God: will thee preserue,
From all euill haps: from all mischaunce:
The Lord wil saufe: thy soule conserue
He will thy fayth: and fame auaunce.
In Gouernaunce

8

The Lord will keepe: and keepe mought he,
Thy comming in: thy going out:
By puissant power: (thus pray all we)
From this tyme forth: the world about.
We haue no dout.

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Psalme. CXXII.

The Argument.

Here Salem is: well ioyed and wisht,
That earthly mount: is figure past:
For vs to wish: Christes church so blist,
That we in heauen: may mete at last.
From earth dismist.

Letatus sum in.

3. Canticū Graduum.

1

Most glad I was (saith good man so)
When men deuout: said thus to me,
Come we in one: in will we go,
the lordes hie house: of maiestie
& pray him to.

2

Our feet shall stand: in certentie,
Within thy gates: Hierusalem,
Within thy courtes: where we shall see,
Gods true electes: to ioyne with them,
In perfectnes.

3

Hierusalem: thou shinyng beame,
Thou builded art: in peacefulnes,
As citie els: in any realme,
Where men may meete for holines.
In tymes select.

4

For thither haue: the tribes accesse,
Euen Gods owne tribes: by him elect,
I meane Gods flocke: of Israell,
To laude hys name: by lawes respect,
His prayse to tell.

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4

For there the seates: be duly dect,
To iudge the truth: by priesthoodes spell,
Set there we see: of Dauids house,
His iudgement seat: there iust to dwell.
Most glorious.

5

O wishe and pray: all ioyfull peace,
Hierusalem: to haue euen thus:
Who loue thee well: or wishe thyne ease,
All ioy haue they: most prosperous,
Well God to please.

6

O peace befall: thy walles so wyde,
No forren power: to worke disease:
God graunt thy towers: may strong abide,
In all successe: most happely,
By God the guide.

7

My brethernes sake: my neighbours nye,
Make me thus speake: vp on thy side:
To wishe thee peace: so earnestly,
Thy welth to stand: from day to day,
O Mount most hye.

8

Yea thus I seeke: thy wealth I say,
For Gods house sake: our Lord of loue,
Whose regall power: therin doth lay
O thus do we: our hartes to moue,
In sprite to pray.

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Psalm, CXXIII.

The Argument.

On Whome the worlde: doth looke awrye,
This psalme is fit: for there behoue:
Proude worldlye men: true man defye,
All like themselfe they only loue.
As proofe doth trye.

Ad te Domine.

4. Canticum graduum.

1

To thee I lifte: mine eies on hye,
To thee that dwelst: in heauen aboue
Thoughe here wt shame mē me deny,
Yet me I trust: thou wilt approue.
O Lord be nye.

2

As man and mayd: for helpe doth eye,
Theyr Lords & Ladies handes to proue:
So we our eyes: bende certainly,
To God our Lord: his grace to moue.
O trustelye.

3

Haue mercy Lorde: to vs applye,
Haue mercy yet: shewe vs thy loue:
For skornde we be: full bitterly,
They vs with spite: from them remoue.
O cruelly.

4

With mockes and taunts: reuilde we lye,
Our soule is ful: of their reproue:
The wealthy (Lord) the proude we spye,
Be they that vs: with spite disproue.
O Lord be by.

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Psalm. CXXIIII.

The Argument.

The Iues so left: in Iury still,
VVhan they exild: were others set:
VVith thanks theyr songs: they did fulfil,
As they by times: together met.
So we the same,
May counterfete.

Nisi quia

5. Canticum graduum.

1

But God himselfe: by redy grace,
Had stand with vs: in carefulnes:
Against mens spite: & Irefull face,
May Israel: in tong expresse.
As we the same,
Must nedes cōfes.

2

I say againe: to note the case,
Except the Lorde: himselfe in preace:
Had ben with vs: in open place,
Whē mē rose vp: our harts to presse.
Like Israell,
We must confesse.

3

They had deuourd: by time and space
Our soules euē quicke: In cruelnesse
Whā they so faine: would vs disgrace
And fumed at vs: In wrathfulnesse.
Lyke Israell,
We must confesse.

4

The storms, & flouds: of woes so base
Had drownd vs quite: by theyr exces
The roring streames: so swift in pace
Had drencht our soules remedilesse.
Like Israell:
We must confesse.

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5

Proud swelling flouds: so ran in race
To whelme our soules: in heuynes:
Our rest of life: they would deface.
And thought therin: great godlinesse.
Like Israell,
We must confesse

6

With hart most kind: let vs embrace,
This louing Lord: wt thanks to blesse
who duld theyr teeth: our flesh to race
Their pray so sought: in gredinesse.
Like Israell
We must confesse.

7

Our soules as birds which foulers trace
Be scapt their snares: of wickednesse
Which they with craft: did interlace,
The snare is broke: we haue release.
Like Israell
We must confesse.

8

Gods mighty name: we ought to blase,
Our help at neede: who made no lesse
But heauen and earth: and all it hase
As Israel: maye still expresse.
So iust the same we wil confesse.

Psalm. CXXV.

The Argument.

This Psalme commendth: against our foen,
Almighty Gods protection:
Yf we in faith: to him can clyue,
No power aduerse: can vs contryue.
In vaine they striue.

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Qui confidunt.

6. Canticum graduum.

1

Who stickth to God: in stable truste,
As Sion mount: they stand full iuste,
which moueth no whit: nor yet cā reel,
But standth for aye: as stiffe as stele.
Than trust him wele.

2

Hierusalem: with hils is set,
Enuyroned: with bulwarkes great:
Right so the Lord: standth round about,
His people nye for euer stout.
Without all dout.

3

For wicked power: with all his tayle,
On iust mens lot: shall not preuayle:
Lest rightwise men: should put their hands
To wickednesse: for feare of bonds.
So ny God stands.

4

Do well O Lord: in loues respect,
To godly men: though here reiect:
And right vp men: of parfyte hart,
O them embrace: in gentle part.
As God thou arte.

5

But who to wrong: will backe declyne,
Of croked drifts: who draw the line:
Where wicked waile: god them shall leade,
But Israell shall ioy in meede.
Without al dreade.

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Psalme. CXXVI.

The Argument.

This Psalme in sight: doth prophecy,
What myrth is made: most worthely:
When God doth worke: deliuery,
From soules or bodies: misery.
To liberty.

In conuertendo.

Canticū Graduum.

1

What tyme the Lord: shall backe repry
Hard Sions thrall: to death so nye,
Appeare shall we: then dreamingly,
Such ioy vnlookt: for then to spy,
So sodenly.

2

Our mouth shall laugh: then plentuously,
Our tonges shall flow: with songs full hye,
Then Gentils shall: say openly,
For them the Lord: wrought royally,
We see at eye.

3

The Lord no dout: shall magnify,
For vs his power: most notably,
Thus may we ioy: then restfully,
Our thraldome past: all totally.
So blessedly.

4

O Lord returne: then spedely,
Our captiue state: our drudgery:
As riuers cheare: the south so dry,
So shall thine acte: vs gratefy.
Most louingly.

376

6

Who soweth in teares: all mourningly,
Hys corne bought deare: in penury:
Shall reape agayne: yet ioyfully.
To see increase: his neede supply.
So fruitefully.

7

Who goeth from home: all heauily,
With his seede leape: his land to try:
He home returnes: wyth hocky cry,
With sheaues full lade abundantly,
Reioycingly.

Psalm. CXXVII.

The Argument.

This Psalme describeth: Gods prouidence,
Whence man must spye: his suerety:
In house & towne: his whole defence,
Or els shall he: his ruine see.
In vanitye.

Nisi dominus.

8. Canticum graduum

1

Except the Lord: the house vp buylde
They toyle in vayne: who buylde most fayne:
Except the Lord: becityes shielde,
The watchman playne: loose all theyr gayne
They win but paine

377

2

But labour lost: that soone ye ryse,
That late ye creepe: you safe to kepe:
That bread ye eate: in carefull wise,
Where God geueth slepe both sound & deepe
To his good sheepe

3

Lo childern be: an heritage,
From God so sent: beneuolent:
The frute of wombe: to comfort age,
From God is lent: by his assent.
Munificent.

4

As arrowes strong: in Gyauntes handes,
Make strength appeare: to scape all feare,
So childern yong: to Gods men standes,
As staffe and speare: in age most deare,
To them full neare.

5

O well is him: whose quiuer is,
With such full dight: his house well pight,
At iudgement gate: they shall not mis,
To plead their right at foes despite,
Their shame to quite.

378

Psalm. CXXVIII.

The Argument.

This Psalme intreat: the wedlocke state,
Yt maketh Gods feare: most fortunate:
Where both be met: well God to serue,
Who can them deare: to make them swerue.
Synce God will: here
Them both preserue.

Beati omnes.

9 Canticum graduum.

1

O blest is he: who feareth the Lord,
and walkth his waies: in harts accord
Who can agree: by fayth full sure,
To spend his daies: to him most pure
To seeke no strayes:
But will endure.

2

For thou shalt eate: thy labours true,
Of thine owne hand: in ceason due:
For thus thy meete: and trauels free,
Well shalt thou stand: blest shalt thou be.
In sea and lond,
most luckely.

3

Thy wife most deare: as frutefull vine,
Shall spread thy house: the sides to byne:
Thy childerne cleare: shall florish out,
Like Olyue bowes: thy bourde aboute.
Thus God alowes,
Thy state no dout.

4

O geue good eare: expend it than
For happy so: shalbe that man:
Who iust in feare: to God doth bend:
His life to woe: can not descend.
God clyueth him to,
And him defendeth.

379

5

The Lord blesse thee: from Sion hye,
With grace supreame: she blest mought lye:
That thou mayst see: while life is prest,
Hierusalem: in goods possest.
This come to them,
In feare who rest.

6

And God geue grace: that thou maist spye
Thy childrens seede: and progeny:
God shew his face: to Israell,
In peace to speede: In ioy to dwell.
That al good deede,
May there excell.

Psalm. CXXIX.

The Argument.

As Syon vext: to God she can,
In prayers meeke: her refuge make:
So Christe, his churche, and christen man
In God theyr Lord: may comfort take.
In harte yet glad,
For Christs his sake.

Sepe expugna.

10. Canticum graduum.

1

Great grief they haue: against me wrought
Yea oft and oft: from day to day:
From vp my youth: they quarels soughte,
Speake Israel: now truly may.
So Christ his spouse:
May ioyntly say.

380

2

Yea oft I say: full manye times,
Great traines at me: in spite they lay:
From vp my youth: for all theyr crimes:
They coulde not yet: my state betraye.
So christen man:
in like may praye.

3

The plowers plowde: vpon my backe,
Theyr errours mad: yet thought full gay:
My truth, so strong: they could not slacke,
Their forrowes long: had short decay.
So Christ his spouse
may ioyntly say.

4

The Lord so iust: their cords hath cut,
Their wicked yokes: to ren a stray.
In prison bound: they kept vs shut,
But God them all: hath driuen to bay.
So Christen man:
in life may praye.

5

Let them be shamde: confounded still.
And backeward tornd: in theyr aray
All they which hate: sweete Sion Hill,
Or that woulde els: her quiet fraye.
So Christ his churche
may ioyntly say.

6

Let them how grene: they seeme to stand,
Be like in sighte: the witherd haye:
On houses tops: pluckt vp by hand,
That fadeth to nought: without delay.
So Christen man:
in like maye praye.

381

7

Whereof in dayne: the mowers gripe
When they to such: theyr hands do splay
Nor gleaners can: fynd sheaues so rype,
That they to fyll: theyr bosomes maye.
So Christ his churche:
may ioyntly saye.

8

That none to them: good lucke do wysh.
Which walke in gate: by side the way:
On Gods hye name: theyr works to blesse:
But wisht them all: far well awaye.
God graunt that ofte:
this all we praye.

psalm. CXXX.

The Argument.

In banishment: when Iues were pent,
And felt gods yre: the greuousnes:
Thus thrall their sinnes: they did lament
They freedom wisht: from cruelnesse.
In banishment.

De profundis.

11 Canticum Graduum.

1

In deepe excesse: In heuynes,
O Lord to thee: my crying went
From depth of hart: I did expresse,
My great constraynts: most violēt.
In deepe excesse.

382

2

O Lord assent: O here attent,
My wofull voyce: in redines,
O let thyne eares: to harke be bent,
My prayers cry: in lowlines.
O Lord assent.

3

If thou wouldst presse: mans sinnefulnes,
O Lord to send: due punishment,
Who could O Lord: the waightines,
Sustayne to byde: thy chastisement.
If thou wouldst presse.

4

Be Lord content: lo we repent,
For thou shewest grace: to humblenes
Thus feard to be: most reuerent,
Then kepe no sinnes: in irefulnes,
Be Lord content

5

I hope release: I trust no lesse,
The Lord I byde: still permanent:
My soule expecth: hys frendlines,
I wayte his wordes: accomplishment,
I hope release.

6

My soule so ment: more confident,
To wayte my Lordes: great gentlenes,
Then watchemen wishe: the night full spent,
And wayt the morne: theyr watche to cease.
My soule so ment.

383

7

In faithfulnes: in chearefulnes,
Let Iacob wayt: the Lord so gent,
Because with God: is ruefulnes,
He oft redeemth: his mercyment,
In faithfulnes.

8

He will relent: incontinent,
And full aquite: the wretchtdnes,
Of Israell: his prisonment,
And pardon all: theyr wickednes,
He wyll relent.

Psalme. CXXXI.

The Argument.

When Dauids foes: inueterate,
Hym slaundred sore: as obstinate:
That he Saules reigne: would vendicat,
He prayed to God: immaculate.
To cleare his state.

1

Domine non est.

My hart proud things (lord) counted not
Myne eyes aloft: haunt mounted not:
In boasting actes: I walked not,
Things past my reach: I stalked not.
Lord deare me not.

384

2

If I my hart: refrayned not,
If I my soule: restrayned not:
If I as childe: beweynd me not,
If I from pride: absteynd me not.
Then heare me not.

3

O Israell: most fortunate,
Wayte thou the Lord: still moderate:
Be meeke, flee pryde: inordinate,
From this tyme forth: interminate.
And feare thou not.

Psalm. CXXXII.

The Argument.

This Psalm doth pray: for good successe,
Of all thy realmes: & priesthodes state:
So Dauids oathe: this vow hys stresse,
VVhat god him hight: it doth debate.
Yt Christ expresse.

Memento domine.

13 Canticum graduum.

1

Remember Lord: meke Dauid king,
And al his hard: affliction,
For his good sake: by pityenge,
Amoue from vs: confusion.
Haue hym in mynd.

385

2

How he in good: deuotion,
To thee hys Lord: hymselfe dyd bynde,
By othe and vow: to God most hye,
To thee I say: strong Iacobs frende.
Thus constantly.

3

Be it my shame: if I go in,
My Cabborne house: in rest to lygh:
If I my sheetes: thrust me betwene,
And clyme my couche: in fethers soft,
Blame might I winne.

4

Or els if I: myne eyes aloft,
Should geue them sleepe: myne eies the lids,
To suffer them: to slumber oft,
Though fast they craue: to fill their needes,
Then fall myne house.

5

Untill I fynde: without all dreades,
The Lord a place: commodious:
A sacrary: and temple sweete,
To Iacobs God: victorious.
To hym most meete.

6

Of this place lo: I Salomon,
In Ephrata: hard there in streete,
And found we haue: this holy throne,

2. Par. 21.

In Ornans field: wyth woodes beset.
O come ye on.

7

To his fayre tentes: go we to fet,
To temple built: hys arke of grace:
And bowe we low: with honour great,
To his footestoole: hye set in place.
And thus say we.

386

9

Aryse O Lord: and kepe thy place,
Of quiet rest: no more to flee:
O thou thy selfe: soone thither moue,
Thyne arke of strength: conioynd with thee,
O Lord of loue.

10

And let thy priestes: be deckt alway,
Wyth right and health: as them behouth:
Let all thy saintes: reioyce I say,
So blest by thee: to prayse the due.
Both nyght and day.

11

For Dauids sake: thy seruant true,
To whome thy grace: did louely spring
Shame not my face: so chosen new,
Thyne owne (O Lord) annoynted king,
My hart to freat.

12

The Lord in fayth: sware promising,
To Dauid backe: he wyll not treat:
Of thyne owne wombes: engendred frute,
I will to one: bestow thy seat.
All lyke in sute.

13

If that in truth: thy childerne wyll,
My pact and statutes: execute:
Which I will teach: then shall euen still
Thy childern sit: thy throne for aye.
Wyth my good will.

13

For why the Lord: without denay,
Hath Zyon mount: elect in choyce:
He much desird: that it should lay,
As seate wherof: he would reioyce,
And thus he sayd.

387

14

Here shall my rest: from troubly noyse,
Remayne full sure: for euer stayd,
Here will I dwell: for her I wisht,
In my desire: full well apayd.
Of her I wist.

15

Her vitayles all: with full increase,
Shall blesse alway: my blissefull fiste,
Her poore to feede: wyth bread at ease,
I will them all: full satisfy,
If me they please.

16

I will their priestes: adourne on hye,
With helth; wyth truth: wyth lyfe, wt light:
And they his saintes: shall sanctify,
That they may ioy: in hartes delight,
With holines.

17

There Dauids horne: and regall might,
I will it make: to florish fresh.
And there I will: a lyght prouide,
To myne owne Christ: by frutes successe,
Of Dauids syde.

18

And all hys foes: wyth vtter shame,
I will them clothe: and them deryde
As yet for hym, hys crowne, and name,
Shall florish out: both large and brode,
In blessed fame.
So graunt in God.

388

Psalm. CXXXIII.

The Argument.

A short extrete: of loue the strength,
So large in length: in tast so sweete:
O charity: thou art I wisse,
Of Man the blisse: in ech degree:
O charity: wyth vnity.

Ecce quā bonum.

14. Canticum graduum

1

O come and see: how things most meete
It is, and sweete: where men agree:
Whan brethren bound: together dwell
In peace to dwell: In loue be founde,
O vnity: keepe charitye.

2

It is as sweete: as Balme the best,
On head well drest, which downe did fleete,
By berd and throte: the berd I say,
Of Aaron gay: his skirt of cote.
O charity: seeke vnitye.

3

It is as sweete: as dewe that wont,
Fat Hermon mount: to make so weete
As dew no dout: that heauenlye stils,
On Sion hils: euen round about.
O vnity: beare charity.

4

For there euen there: the Lord hath chargd,
Where peace enlargde: most rule doth bere:
All blisfull lyfe: for aye to be,
Where men agree: and voyd all strife.
O charity stirre vnity.

389

Psalm. CXXXIIII.

The Argument.

The Leuites set: in nights to sing,
To God so great: their Lord and king,
On steps in sight: some one by choyce,
Dyd thus excyte, all mens reioyce,
So met to bring:
Both sprite, and voyce.

Ecce nunc benedicite.

15. Canticū Graduum.

1

Lo ye all here:
Ye seruants deere:
And ye that stand:
Of God so grand:
Now prayse the Lord:
By Gods accord,
By night in house:
And glorious.
Draw neere: recorde
His hand, with vs.

2

Your handes lift hye:
Gods sacrary:
The Lord proclaime:
Enhaunce the same:
In holynes,
Due laude expresse:
Blisse ye his deede,
In fayth and dread.
Apply no lesse,
His fame to spread.

3

The Lord of grace:
Blisse he this place:
Who heauen did make:
For all our sake:
From Sion Hyll,
Your hart and will,
And earth I say,
Both nighte and day.
Embrace, him still,
Awake, and pray.

The ende of the songes of the Stayers.

390

Psalme. CXXXV.

The Argument.

This Psalme endited seemth, for ministers in quiere,
Gods workes it telth, vayne Gods it scornth, it singth Gods laudes full cleare.

Laudate nomen domini.

1

O worship thanke and praise: the name of God the Lord,
Ye seruauntes all: of thys your God: laud ye with one accord.

2

Ye ministers which stand: in God the Lordes good house:
And kepe the courtes: of this our God: O prayse hym glorious.

3

Laude ye the Lord for why: the Lord is gracious,
Syng out his name: for sweete it is: to man delicious.

4

The Lord no doubt hath chose: vnto hymselfe in care.
Olde Iacobs stocke: all Israell: for hys peculyar.

5

I knowe the Lord is great: and hye I him esteeme
And that our God: passth other Gods: which mē for gods do deeme.

6

And what it lyketh them: the Lord doth it in deede,
In heauen and earth: in sea full out: in deepes where fishes breede.

7

He vapours lifth from earth: and they to clouds do renne,
He lightnings turnth: to raine in store: he winds drawth out of dēne.

301

8

To quite their cruelnes he smote in Egypt land:
Theyr fruites first got: not one to scape: from man to beast in band.

9

In midst of thee: the Lord his signes and wonders sent:
Thou Egipt land, which Pharao, and all his seruants shente.

10

He many countryes smote, and dyuerse nations slew:
He vanguished: most mighty kings: and made them all to rew.

11

Of Ammorites theyr kyng: hight Seon hie in throne:
So Og, that hog: of Basan king: and Canaans realmes echeone.

12

And gaue theyr lands and holds: for heritage of right:
For heritage: to Israell: his people whole and quite.

13

O Lord thy name endureth: for euer world to ende:
From age to age: thy memory: in fame shal stil extend.

14

For now the Lord hath iudged: his peoples cause most playne:
He them auengd: and pleasd he was with all his flocke agayne.

15

The Gentyls, Images: be siluer molt and gold:
But handy worke: of wretched men: how euer they be fold

16

Mouthes haue they made in them? but speake nothing at al,
So eyes they haue: and nought they see, blind Gods and casuall.

17

And eares they haue in shape, and yet they heare no sound:
Where beast most domme: hath life and sprite, no breth in them is found.

18

As they be all to see, theyr makers be the leke:
Domme deafe, and dead, brute stockes and blocks: so all which thē do seeke.

19

Ye house of Israell, do well, prayse ye the Lord,
Yea Aarons house, preach ye his praise: the lords great actes record

302

20

Ye Leuis house and seede, blesse ye the Lord all whole
Ye all that feare and worship true, this Lord most hye extoll.

21

O praysed be the Lord, of Sion nighte and day,
His place is set Hierusalem: O prayse the Lord I say.

Psalme. CXXXVI.

The Argument,

The Rectors.
This Caroll sweete: exhorth vs clere,
Gods goodnes great: to prayse in quiere.

The Quiere.
That men wyth laudes: should them inure,
For thankes breede thankes: and grace procure

The Meane.
So redy bendth: hys loue so pure,
Which will in ioy: our hartes assure.

Confitemini.

The Rectors.
Confesse and praise: the Lord most kynde:

For God he is: as man doth fynde.

The Quiere.
For euer standth: hys mercy sure:
Hys grace to vs: wyll styll indure.

The Meane.
So redy bendth: hys loue so pure:
Which will in ioy: our hartes assure.

393

Rectors.
Confesse and prayse: the God of Gods,

Who made vs first: of earthly clods.

The Quiere.
For euer standth: hys mercy sure,
Hys grace to vs: wyll still endure.

The Meane.
So redie bendth: hys loue so pure:
Which wyll in ioy: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Confesse and prayse: the Lord of Lordes:

Who made all thyng: by strength of wordes.

The Quiere.
For euer standth: hys mercy sure,
Hys grace to vs: will still endure.

The Meane.
So redy bendth: his loue so pure,
Who will in ioy: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Who wrought alone: actes maruelous,

Who formd the heauens: by wisdome thus,

Who stretcht the earth: on fluds from vs.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all this: in hys good cure:
For euer standth: hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs: doth still endure:
Which will in ioy: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Who made great lightes: in firmament,

The sunne for day: in regiment,

The moone and starres: on night to glent.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all thys: in hys good cure:
For euer standth: hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs: doth still endure:
Which will in ioy: our hartes assure.

394

Rectors.
Who Egipt smote: with their first borne,

And brought fro thence: the Iewes forlorne.

By mighty strength: both night and morne.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all this: in hys good cure:
For euer standth his mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs: doth still endure,
Which will in ioyes: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Who sea so red: dyd whole deuide,

And Iacob made: through it to slide,

But Pharo drownd: his host beside.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all this: in hys good cure:
For euer standth hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs: doth still indure,
Who will in ioyes: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Who led his flocke: by wildernes,

Who slew great kinges: of Heathennes,

The strongest kings: he put to stresse.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all this: in hys good cure,
For euer standth: hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs: doth still endure:
Who will in ioyes: our hartes assure.

395

Rectors.
As Seons brags: and Ogs despites,

Of Basan kinges: and Amorites,

Whose landes he made: true Iacobs rightes

21. 22.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all thys: in hys gyod cure:
For euer standth: hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
Hys grace to vs: doth still endure,
Who wyll in ioyes: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Who mynded vs: in trouble set,

And vs redeemd: from them vs fret,

Who heapeth all flesh: with heaped met.

The Quiere.
Who dyd all thys: in hys good cure,
For euer standth: hys mercy sure.

The Meane.
His grace to vs doth still endure:
Who will in ioy our hartes assure.

Rectors.
Then prayse and thanke: the God of heauen,

With hart, with tonge, with lyfe most cleane

The Quiere.
For euer standth, hys mercy sure
Hys grace to vs, wyll styll endure.

The Meane.
So redy bendth: hys loue so pure,
Which wyll in ioy: our hartes assure.

Rectors.
O thinke and thanke: the Lord of Lordes,
His thoughtes, his actes, hys louely wordes.

The Quiere.
For euer standth his mercy sure,
To thankefull hart, it wyll endure.

The Meane.
So redy bendth: hys loue so pure:
Which will in ioy: our hartes assure.

396

Psalm. Cxxxvij.

The Argument.

When Babilon: the Iewes supprest,
they tell how they did playne,
From whence well rid, they her detest,
to wishe her spoylde agayne.

Super flu mina.

1

At water sides: of Babilon,
euen there we sate and wept:
While Syon mount: we thought vpō
remembring Gods precept.

2

We hong among: the Salow trees,
our Harpes and Organs all:
No ioy we had: with weeping eyes,
to matters musicall.

3

They craued of vs: who thrald vs wrong,
Some dyties melody:
In scorne they sayd: sing vs some song,
Of Syon merely.

4

How can we syng: sayd we agayne,
The Lordes sweete songes deuyne:
In land so strange: who vs constrayne,
we must all mirth resigne.

397

5

If I should thee: cast out of mynde:
O good Ierusalem,
I would my hand: went out of kinde:
to play to pleasure them.

6

Yea let my tonge: to palate sticke:
if that I minde thee not.
If Syons prayse: I should not seeke::
as chiefe to ioy in that.

7

The Edomits O Lord, requite,
for Salems heauy day,
Who cryed wast her: spoyle her in sight:
euen flat on ground to lay

8

O Babilon: thou doughter light:
which waylst thy spoyling deepe:
Well mought he speede: that thee did quite:
as thou madst vs to weepe.

9

And well fare him: that toke thee ones,
which vs downe fiercely threwest:
Who flong thy babes: agaynst the stones,
as ours in rage thou slewest.

398

Psalm. CXXXVIII.

The Argument.

Whan Dauid skapt: much wo on kynde
Thus thanks to God he dyd extende
So taughte by proofe he vowed in mynde,
That he of God would styll depende.
As he entendth.

Confitebor tibi.

1

I wyll O Lord: gene thankes to thee,
My hart therto: doth wholy bende:
Before the powrs: as Gods they bee,
So sing I will: my voyce to spend.
Els God forfend.

2

I kneele to thy: right regal cell,
To prayse thy name for truth and loue:
Thy word and name: thou madst excell,
Aboue all thinges: the deede doth proue.
As men expende.

3

For this I sawe: what day I cryed,
Thou answerdst me: most louingly:
To my poore soule: thou lentst I spyed,
More grace, so strength: to multiply.
Thus didst thou lende.

4

All kings of earth: prayse thee they must,
O Lord most true: as right allowth
When they shall here: performed iust,
Thy word to me: which spake thy mouth.
They will contende.

399

5

Loe they shall sing: with harts most free,
Of all the Lords: most rightful wayes:
That great is God: in maiesty,
So they his name: shall euer prayse
and thanks repend.

6

And that the Lord: though placed hye,
Who glory hath: as God aboue:
Yet he the meke: respecth full nye,
And knowth the proud: from far aloofe.
him low to bend.

7

What though I walke: in midst of woe
Yet wilt thou me: reuiue and ease:
And stey by power: myne Irefull foe,
Thy right hand strong: shall me release.
Thy helpe to send.

8

The Lord shall this: performe for me,
That is begon: to bringe to ende.
Thy grace benigne: Lord aye shalbe,
Thy handy woorke: thou wilt not blende.
But still defend.

Psalm. Cxxxix.

The Argument.

When Dauid mysreported was: that he would Saul subuert
He thus appeald to God hymself, who knew hys giltles hart.

400

1

Domine probasti.

O God thou hast: ful searcht me out,
Thou knowst my harte and reines:
Accused I am: to compasse in,
Both king and realme wyth traynes.

2

My sitting downe: my rising vp: my Actes thou knowest echone
Thou vnderstandst: my thoughts a far: before I thinke them on.

3

My walks thou knowst: my rests & steys: my bed thou goest aboute
Yea al my wayes: thou hast contriued: all sercht by the no doute.

4

No secret word: in all my tonge: so whispered closly in
But thou O Lord: it knowst at whole: although it make no dinne.

5

For why thou me: thy selfe didst frame: behynd, before in forme:
Thou laydst thyne hand: to this my clay: thy hands did me perform

6

This knowledge is: to meruelous: for me to reach I knoow,
To hye and hard: for me to fetch: by hye or yet by lowe.

7

And whether can: I thinke to goe: fro this thy sprite and thought,
From thee in face: how can I flye: or whether shall I flought.

8

If I do clime: to heauen aboue: euen there thou artfull neere:
If so by low: I make my bed: In hell, thou art lo there.

9

If now I take: the morning wings: who spredth her beames so swift
That strayt I cowd: to fordest Sea: remoue my house to shift.

10

Yet there thy hand: shall lede me forth: as pastor guideth his sheepe
thy strong right hand: would me vphold: by prouidence most deepe

11

If eke I say: or thinke at least: that darke shall hide my heade:
Than shall the night: as shining day: be round about me spreade.

401

12

For sure the darke so dark: cannot: endarke thy louely sight:
The night as day: do shine to thee: so darkenes is as light.

13

For iust my reynes: with theyr affects: are thine how hid they be,
In wrapst thou me my mothers wombe: with vestures sonderly.

14

I geue thee thanks: for that I am: in shape formd straungely,
Thy works so hye: be wrought in me, which playnd my soule doth spye.

15

My substance first: both bones & Ioynts: were nothing hid fro the
In earth ful depe when I was wrought: and wouen was curiously

16

My masse vnshapt: thyne eyes did see: was writ in thine owne boke
By dayes increase: my parts were formd: whē none on them could looke

17

How dere to me: O God appere: thy thoughts, these counsels gret
How manifold: be but the summe: In count if they were set.

18

If I would tell: the summe of them: they should exceede the sand:
Than this reuolued: I watch to thee, by thee I trust to stand.

19

If thou uow wouldst: thy self O God: confound that wicked man:
bloud thursty men: whome I defye: would leaue me wholy than.

20

For these they be: that fight at thee and speake vngraciously:
They vse thy name: in vayne to light: thy foes be puft to hye.

21

Do I not hate: all them O Lorde: who thee with hate disdayne?
And fret not I: and fume at them: which rise at thee by trayne?

22

Yes Lord from hart: I hate them all: with perfect hate and fyne
Thy foes I take: myne enemies: as they were onely myne.

23

Than search me God: and boult my hart: to thee this cause I yelde
Well try and know: in thoughte and driftes: what hauntes in life I held

402

24

And see in me: if any wayes: be founde rebellious,
Then lead me forth: the worldly way: of death obliuiouse.

Psalm. CXL.

The Argument.

This prayth for good: (and iuste) deliuerance:
Frō wayting spies: & guyleful (fawning) frēds
Yt sheweth euēso: what ones (at lēgth) shal chance
To good and bad: in both theyr (finall) ends.

1

Eripe me domine.

O Lord most good: (in haste) deliuer me,
From man that is: so euell and (wholly) nought
O keepe me saufe: In (stedfaste) suerty,
From wrongful man: of (cursed) wicked thought.

2

To euill theyr hartes: do whole (alwaye) agree,
From whence they haue: all (suttle) mischief wrought,
To hate and bate: them selfes they (fullye) bende,
But strife all day: by them is (vainely) sought.

3

Theyr tongs so sharpe: (on me) they haue extende,
As serpent slye: (as snake) moste pestilente:
Like Adders sting: theyr (venome) poyson sende,

Sela

Such poyson they: in (fawning) lippes frequente.

403

4

My sely soule: O Lorde: (my God) defende,
From wicked power: most (fierce and) violent:
From wrongfull men: O me (good Lorde) preserue,
To trip my foote: by them is (lewdly) ment.

5

These hawty men: (to death) to make me sterue,
Hath hid theyr snares: with (suttle) cordes in brayde:
And spred their nets: me thus they (wayte to) serue,
With wily trappes: my wayes (and steps) they layde.

6

Yet sure from God: I would not (farly) swerue,
To whom in fayth: euen thus I (boldly) sayd:
Thou art my God: O heare my (wofull) mone,
From hart the roote: by tong (in word) displayd.

7

My Lord and God: my trust (most iust) alone,
My strength and health: my (closely) couerture:
Thou shieldst my hed: to scape my (deadly) fone,
In day of warre: to stand (on foote) full sure.

8

Permit not Lord: whyle thus (for wo) I grone,
His will to haue: this (wicked) man vnpure:
To hys attempt: (O Lord) geue no successe,

Sela

Lest proud they swell: and harme (the more) procure.

9

O let theyr lippes: in (crafty) wickednes:
Betrap themselfe: in all their (daily) paynes:
O let their hed: feele first (their due) distres,
That compasse me: wyth suttle (wily) traynes.

10

Let burnyng coales: for their (so mad) excesse,
Fall downe on them: to dull their (hasty) braynes
Let fire and pit: be (wholy) theyr rewarde,
No tyme to ryse: to (any) better gaynes.

404

11

Of bablyng tong: who hath no (bit or) warde,
O let them Lord: here neuer (proue to) thriue:
Him euill shall hunt: till he (to nought) be marde,
No wealth to hym: (at all) shall downe deriue.

12

Full sure I am: God will (most kynde) regard,
The poore mans case: with ayde (and ease) beliue:
Of helpelesse man: to try his (truth and) right,
In iudgement strong: for hym (alway) to striue

13

Thus righteous men: (so met) in open sight,
Shall prayse thy name: (O Lord) that is so high,
Then strayt vp men: in heauenly (ioyous) light,
Shall see thy face: (to lyue) eternally.

Psalme. CXLI.

The Argument.

Here Dauid prayth: for stedfastnes,
among the wycked sect:
To scape theyr traps: and wyckednes,
That they may low be chect.

1

Domine clamaui.

O Lord I haue: lowde cryed to thee,
to me therfore make spede:
Unto my voyce: thine eare agree,
whyle that I cry in drede.

405

2

O let my sute: in syght so ryse,
as doth incense to thee:
My rayse of handes: as sacrifice,
of nyght, Lord let it bee.

3

Lord set a watch: before my mouth,
kepe thou my mouth and lips:
To speake nothyng: but truth and south:
to scape all snares and trips.

4

Let not my hart: declyne to euill,
with wycked workes inurde:
With wycked men: to worke in will,
by their delites allurde.

5

Yea let the iust: as frendly led,
me smite and blame I say:
No wycked balme: to stroke my hed:
agaynst them still I pray.

6

O hedlong be: their iudges thrust,
as down from rockes bethrowne:
They would haue harde: my wordes at first,
if swete they had be browne.

7

Our scattred bones: they breake in moode,
so nye the graue they lay:
As man which cleauth: and shiuerth woode,
or one that clods doth bray.

8

For that myne eyes: O Lord to thee,
O Lord be firmly cast:
And thee I trust: then vtterly,
spill not my soule in wast.

406

9

O kepe me saufe: fro crafty snare:
which they to me do driue:
From wicked trappes: that men prepare:
which wickednes contriue.

10

But rather let: these wicked fall:
all whoel into theyr nets:
Betrapt themself: so be they all:
while I may scape theyr threats.

Psalm. CXLII

The Argument.

What Dauid thought: and how he prayd,
whan feare draue hym to caue:
He here reporth: on God he stayed,
who did him strongly saue.

1

Vocemea ad Domi num.

Vnto the Lord: with voyce I cryed,
So nye in parell set:
Unto the Lord: my prayer hyed,
both hart and voyce were met.

2

I pourd my sute: my sore complaynt,
before his face in sight:
My troublouse state: I did depaynt,
before himself in light.

407

3

What tyme my sprite: was inly pent,
my life thou knewest the path:
Yet layd they snares: vext though I went,
in all my walkes in wrath.

4

On hand both right: and left I vewed,
none saw I that me knew
No scape was free: none so endued,
that once my soule woulde rue.

5

O Lord than thee: I cryed vpon,
and thus I sayd euer then:
Thou art my hope: and portion,
in land of lyuing men.

6

Respect my crye: for worne I goe,
in cares full deepe I wayle:
Saue me fro them: which vext me so
on me they sore preuayle.

7

O bring my soule: from prison bound
Thy name to celebrate:
So iust men wil: me glad surround,
whan thou shalt quite my state.

Psalm. CXLIII.

The Argument.

VVhose hart wyth hate the world resolueth,
To state all base deiect:
If he in fayth this psalme reuolueth,
God sone wyll him erect.

408

1

Domine exaudi.

Now heare my sute: O Lord in stresse:
to my request agree:
For all thy truthes: and rightwisenes:
sone aunswere thou to me.

2

(But enter not: to iudge extreme:
thy seruant hye by lawe:
For who himselfe: can cleane esteme:
yet him I neuer saw.)

3

For loe the foole: my soule hath chasd:
to earth my life hath wrest:
My state in darke: he hath abasde:
as men of old deceast:

4

My pinched sprite: in me doth fayle:
opprest in heuines:
My hart sore vext: doth morne and wayle:
astoynd in pensiuenes.

5

Old yeares from fyrst: I haue recount:
our fathers how thou ledst:
Thine actes I marke: how hye they mount:
I muse the woorkes thou didst.

6

My hands to thee: I held full hye:
that thou wouldst me vouchsaue:
My thristy soule: as pasture drye:
thy graces dewe doth craue.

7

Then heare me Lord: but sone heare thou:
my sprite doth feble ligh:
Hyde not thy face: from me as now:
least strayt my graue I spy.

409

8

Thy voyce at morne: cause me to heare,
for thee I trust alone:
Shew me thy wayes: my steps to steare,
my soule to thee is gone.

9

O rid me Lord: from all theyr spite,
that would me causeles trayne:
For I to thee: referre my right,
in hid defence full fayne.

10

Teach me to worke: thy will to please,
thou art my God I say:
And let thy sprite: so neuer cease,
to leade me straite the way.

11

For thy sweete name: Lord quicken me,
from them that me pursue:
And make my soule: from perill free,
my hart with ioy endue.

12

Thy grace I trust: my foes will quell,
and make their strength but lame:
Who vexth my soule: thou wilt debell,
for I thy seruant am.

410

Psalme. CXLIIII.

The Argument.

That God in warre: wyth Dauyd stoode: here thankes he dyd apply
And prayth to scape: all heathen spyte: hys reygne to prosper hye.

1

Benedictus Dominus.

The Lord be blest: most worthy prayse: who is my God & might,
Who teachth my hands: hys warres to rule: my fyngers eke to fighte.

2

My louely grace: my hold, my fort: my raunsommer is he:
protector sure: in whome I trust: who boweth my flocke to me.

3

O Lord benigne: what thing is man: that thus thou him respectst?
the sonne of man: so weake so vayne: that thus thou him erectst?

4

For man is made: like vanity: a thing of nought most frayle:
his dayes passe fast: as shadow fleeth: as water bobles fayle.

5

O Lord bow downe: the heauens & come: be nye & helpe our payne
O touch these mounts: these heathen Dukes: that they may smoke agayne

6

Thy lightnings spout: and scater them: like men amasde and straut
Thyne arrowes sharpe: shoote out at them: disturbe their brags so haut

7

But send thy hand: from hye aboue: and me deliuer free:
from waters deepe: from childer straunge: theyr power make me to flee

8

Whose mouth doth speake: all vanity: and bost all conquests wyde
whose right hand will: but them deceyue: so sweld in lies and pride

9

O God I will: thus saued by grace: sing newly songs to thee:
In psaltry sweete of strings full ten: my psalmes shall tuned be.

10

For thou geust health: and victory: to kings by stable woorde:
me (Dauid) lo thou hast discharged: to scape theyr cruel sword

411

11

O saue me Lord: deliuer me: from forreine childers spite,
Whose mouth full vayne: doth boast and prate: whose right hand: false is dighte.

12

But graunt that al: our childer grow: as playnts frō youth vpright
our doughters yonge: so polished: as pallace pillers bright.

13

That full may flow: our garners wide: with kinds of vitaile swete
that all our sheepe: bring thousands forth: yea millions in streete.

14

And that well fed: our Oxen goe: to labour stronge to see:
that battries none, no leadings thrall: in streetes no waylings be.

15

Oh happy is: that people sure: who hath these thinges at will:
Yea blessed is: that people best: whose God the Lord is still.

Psalme. CXLV.

The Argument.

Thys Dauyd framde: by Alphabete,
Where God he thākth (in hart) most hie
Whose power & might: whose grace so great,
In prouidence (most cleare) we spy.

1

Exalta[illeg.]o.

Arise I will: my God and king,
to rouse my grace (wt tōg) most hie
and blesse thy name: to me bening
I will (and shall) eternally.

412

2

Both day and night: I will declame,
thy (worthy) laudes most thankfully:
By praysing due: thy holy name,
for aye (and aye) without delayes.

3

Clere is this Lord: most hye of fame,
his state surmounth: all (mortal) prayse:
Can no man search: how he excell,
in greatnes hym (by weight) to paise.

4

Describe to age: shall age full well,
thy (handy) workes: with reuerence,
Declare they must: where that they dwel,
thy (godly) mightes: magnificence.

5

Enhaunce I shall: thy glory bright,
thy fame (and name) thine excellence:
Enditing still: thine actes of might,
so wonderfull (that be) to see.

6

For that that man: may speake & wright,
thy (princely) dedes. that dreadfull bee:
From hence euen so: I will resound,
thy (godheds) grand abilitie.

7

Good men shall preach: how grace abound
in thee (O Lord) with gentlenes:
Glad songes to sing: they will in sound,
of thy great (truth and) bounteousnes.

8

How good the Lord: how gracious,
he is to all in (paynefull) stresse:
How slow to wrath: not furious,
his mercy ruleth (and stayth) his ire.

413

9

In loue he is: most piteous,
to all that him (therof) require:
Imprinted be: his mercies sure,
on all his workes (all whole) intiere.

10

Know this will euery creature,
with thankes (most due) O Lord to thee
Kynd harted men: will them inure,
(in hart) to blesse thy maiestie.

11

Loude will they speake: thy regall seat,
most glorious (at eye) to see:
Lord, so shall men: be glad to treate,
thy power (deuine) so tried by deede.

12

Men thus will still: thy strength repeate,
to Adams stocke: and (liuing) seede:
Most wide they will: with kinde assent,
thy kingdomes (laud: and) glory sprede.

13

No dout the reigne: is permanent,
a reigne (of blisse) to stand for aye:
Nedes must thy power: and regiment,
endure (in length) from day to day.

14

O sure in worde: the Lord is tryed,
most faithfull true (and iust) alway:
On all his workes: his will is spyed,
most holy (God all) them to saue.

15

Poore wauering men: the Lord bestrideth
their stay (and hold) by him to haue:
Playne faln or wrongd: he reiseth againe,
if they their reyse (in faith) can craue.

414

16

Quicke eyes all thing: doth fastly straine,
on thee (O Lord) so good at neede:
Quite all their foode: they aske so fayne
in tyme (most fit) thou geuest in deede.

17

Right wide thou splaist: thy blessing hand,
all liuing things (wyth store) to feede:
Refresht by thee: so full to stand,
with plenty (fed in) foode delight.

18

Still iust appearth: this Lord so grand,
in all his wayes (to man) aright:
So wholy he: doth aye appeare,
in all his workes of (his great) might.

19

The Lord to all: approcheth nere,
to him (for helpe) which make request,
To all I say: soone them to heare,
which call (on him) with faithfull brest.

20

With ready speede: he filleth their mynd,
who feare hym (iust both) most and lest:
Unto their cry: he bendth so kynd,
and saueth them (whole) as him (it) likth

21

Exceding sure: before behynde,
the Lord hys louers (frendly) keepth:
Exile he doth: vngodly men,
to scatter them (most wide) he seekth.

22

Yelde shall my lipps: by duetye then,
this Lords deserued: (laud and) prayse
Yea let all flesh: geue thankes agayn,
to his good name (most due) alwayes.

415

Psalme. CXLVI.

The Argument.

To trust to man: this Psalme forfendth,
Whose arme is flesh: and worde but wynde,
Where God full ayde: to man extendth,
By whome twise lyfe: he iust dyd fynde,
Which Dauid knew: the text dewrayes,
Wherfore his soule: sang still his prayse.

Lauda anima mea.

Alleluya.

1

O thou my soule: prayse thou the Lord,
The Lord of loue: and God of light
Extend thy powers: with one accorde,
Recount his name: in inward spryte,
Expresse thy voyce: without delayes,
O thou my soule: singe still his prayse.

2

My hart is set: to lawde this Lord:
Thys Lord so good is God of grace:
His laudes my life: shall whole recorde,
Yea sure as long: I bide in place.
My God to thanke: I wil alwayes,
O thou my soule: sing still his prayse.

3

O put no trust: in princes power,
The God of might: is Lord to trust:
Yea trust no man: his frute is sower,
No helpe in hym: no credence iust,
Gods loue is sure: at all assayes,
O thou my soule: singe still his prayse.

416

4

Mans breath ones past, he turneth to dust,
This Lord so strong: he euer lastth:
All earthly power: decay it must,
Mans counsayles all: deathes day doth waste,
Gods helpe is ferme: without decayes
O thou my soule: sing stil his praise.

5

Blest is the man: whose helpe is God,
The God of hosts: to Iacobs seede:
Full fast with them: he styl abode,
Who God will trust: aswell shall speede,
In hym beset: al stable strayes
O thou my soule: Sing still his prayse.

6

This God made heauen: and earth betwene,
The Lord so grand: so infinite:
He made the seas: with all therein,
His truth in word: he kepeth full right
His deede from tong: makes neuer strayes
O thou my soule: sing styll his prayse.

7

The Lord reuength: oppressed man,
Thys God of right: as is deserued,
All wrongs and spites, requite he can,
He dealth out bread: to hunger sterued:
Thrall men in bonds: he vseth to rayse
O thou my soule: singe still his prayse.

8

The Lord giueth sight to blynded eyes,
This God so bright to see agayne:
He lifteth the lame: from ground to rise,
The iust doth hee: in loue retayne:
To fill his lyfe: with ioyefull dayes,
O thou my soule, singe still his prayse.

417

9

In care the Lord: all straungers kepth,
Of them sure God: he is at neede:
And Orphans loueth: and widowes seeketh,
Nye hart he takth: theyr cryes of dreade:
Euill minded men: to dust he brayes,
Syng still my soule: syng out hys prayse.

10

Prayse God as king: who raygneth for aye:
As God of thyne: O Sion hye:
Resort to him: Go not astray,
Knyt fast thyne hart: shrinke not awrye.
Expell he will: all feares and frayes.
Rouse hym my soule: Sing stil his prayse.

Psalme. CXLVII.

The Argument.

Thys psalme exciteth the Iewes: to prayse the Lord most chiefe:
So good to them: who priuatly: did worke them all reliefe.

1

Laudate Dominū.

Prayse ye the Lord alway: for good it is to sing,
To this our God: for sweete he is: whom laudes we ought to bring

2

God buildeth Hierusalem: he doth her sure protect:
The poore exiles: of Israell: he shall agayne collect.

3

He heald the brusde in hart: who wayle in sprite contrite,
Theyr plages and sores: he bindeth them vp. he cureth thē al ful light.

418

4

No dout God them beholdeth: who starres by number tels:
By proper name: he calth them all: he knowth theyr rests and cels.

5

The Lord of ours is greate: and great he is in power:
His knowledge is: all infynite: his name as strong as tower.

6

The Lord vpholdeth thafflict: So gentle is his will:
He throweth to ground: all wicked men: So mightye is his skill.

7

O sing to God our Lord: prayse ye his raygne abroade:
Confesse his power: hys will his skyll: In harpe sing ye to God:

8

Who clothe the heauen with cloudes: and raygne to earth prepares
He bringes forth gras: on hills to growe: to serue mans dayly cares.

9

Who geueth to beast theyr foode: to all both great and small:
The rauene her birds: he feedth in care: whan they forsaken call.

10

In barbed horse of strength: his pleasure standth not in:
In legs of men: in force of armes: it pleaseth not him to wynne.

11

They please who feare the Lord: by such he fyght with strength:
who trust all whole his gentlenesse: these only please at length:

Lauda Hierusalem.

12

O Thou Ierusalem: prayse hye the Lord of thyne:
Thou Sion mount: auaunce thy God: in hart therto encline

13

For he makth fast the barres: of all thy gates full prest:
He blissth euen so: thy childer al: in midst of thee to rest.

14

And he doth stablish peace: In all thy borders sure:
He feedth the full: deliciously: with wheate the flower most pure.

419

15

Who sendth his word on earth: and swiftly doth it renne:
Both rayne and wynd: his biddings heare: to serue the nede of men.

16

And snow he geueth like woll: the earth so warme to be:
The hory frosts: the mislyng dewes: as ashes scattreth he.

17

He castth abroade his yse: like morsels so congelde:
and his great cold: who can abyde: that he so hard hath seald.

18

He sendth his worde & will: he melt them all agayne:
He blowth the winde: then they anone: to waters flow most playne.

19

Yea he reuealeth his word: to Iacobs seede and stocke:
His statutes true: his iust decrees: to Israel his flocke.

20

He delt no time as thus: with other landes I say:
He shewed not them: his domes so playne: O prayse the Lord alwaye

Psalme. CXLVIII.

The Argument.

To prayse here all be byd: what heauen or earth contayne:
The Lord so hye: and sapyent: nothyng he made in vayne.

1

Laudate Domino in Cœlis.

Prayse ye the Lord: from heauens: ye heauenly mynds I call,
Prayse him on hye: as hye he is: ye powers celestiall,

2

Prayse hym ye Angels all: his legats ye that be:
ye hosts so cald: his armies great: prayse hym in maiesty.

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3

Prayse him ye sunne and moone: in course so maruelous,
Ye starres so bright: ye Planets all: prayse hym most glorious.

4

Ye heauens by heauens distinct: prayse him with all your shyne,
ye water streames: aboue the ayre: so stayde by power deuyne.

5

They all might prayse and laud: the Lordes good name of myght,
For he the worde: but spake at once: they straight were made in plight.

6

He constituted hath: that they should euer dure,
He set a law: which shall not cease: by ordinance most sure.

7

Ye earthly thinges on earth: prayse ye the Lord with them,
Ye dragons grim: ye depes and gulfes: shew ye his power supreme

8

Fire, lightning, thunder, hayle, both snow and vapours drye,
ye hurling wyndes: tempestuous: which worke his word full nye.

9

Great mountains hils and clifs: low hillockes all and some,
ye fruitefull trees: ye Ceders all: prayse ye the Lordes renome.

10

Ye beastes and cattell all: both sauage wylde and tame,
ye serpents slye: ye fetherd soules: prayse ye his godly name.

11

So kinges of earth most due: with all their people met,
So princes hie: and iudges all: on earth as Gods be set.

12

So yonger men and maydes: in age syncere and pure,
As older men: with childer yong: with all their busy cure.

13

The Lordes name let them prayse: for it alone is hye:
His glory passth: both heauen & earth: as thyngs here made do cry.

14

He hath his flock aduanced: so him his saintes shall prayse,
Euen Iacobs seede: who drawth him nie: praise ye the lord always.

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Psalme. CXLIX.

The Argument.

Thys Psalme the Iewes doth moue,
Theyr God to laude wyth loue:
It sheweth that grace on them shall lyght,
So glad their foes to quyte.

1

Cantate Domino.

O syng vnto the Lord,
A song of new accord:
And let his prayse: declared bee,
In good mens company.

2

Let Israell be glad,
in God hys maker drad:
Let Syons youth: and childer ioy,
In their most princely roy.

3

Let them prayse out in quiere,
Hys name to them so dere:
In Tabret loud: in harpe so soft,
Sing they to hym ful oft.

4

For why the Lord reioyce,
And loueth hys flocke in choyce:
The meke forlorne: he will adourne,
wyth health to serue theyr turne.

5

So godly men made free,
in ioy and prayse shal bee:
They shall reioyce: vpon their beds,
That God did rayse their heds.

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6

Their throtes shall prayses sound,
to God by duety bound:
Two edged swordes: in both theyr handes,
to smite all forren landes.

7

To be auenged right,
of all the Paynyms spite:
To be a rod: to chastise smart,
straunge peoples froward hart.

8

To bynde their kinges wyth chaynes,
to quite their wrongfull meanes
Theyr nobles eke: to kepe in warde,
wyth iron fetters hard.

9

To bryng on them in speede,
theyr iudgement iust decreed:
Which shall his saintes: to honour rayse,
prayse ye the Lord alwayes.

Alleluya.

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Psalme. CL.

The Argument.

Thys psalme is last: and byddeth vs prayse,
That first and last: doth vs behooue:
Whan thyngs be past: and spent our dayes,
Yet laudes shall last: wyth thankefull loue.
In heauen aboue.

Laudate dominū in sanctis

Alleluya

1

O prayse ye God: of excellence,
In his respect: of holynes:
And prayse ye hys: magnifycence,
In fyrmament: of stablenes.
Wyth lowlines.

2

O prayse ye hym: as Sauiour,
For his sweete actes: heroycall:
And prayse ye hym: as gouernour
For his great power: potentiall.
most principal

3

O prayse ye hym: for maiesty,
In trompets sound: effectuouse:
And prayse yee hys: Authority,

Omnipotentia.

In lute and harpe: melodiouse.
most studiouse

4

O prayse ye hym: all sapyent,
In Tymbrell sweete: wyth daunce in quiere
And prayse ye hym: so prouident

Sapientia

In fydle straung: in recordere:
wyth harty chere.

5

O prayse ye hym: all bountifull,
In Cymbals sound: out lowd in flate:
And prayse ye him: so pytyfull:

Bonitas.

In Cymbals sound: more mittigate.
Full moderate

Omnis spiritus laudet Dominum.

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6

Let all with breath: or lyfe endued,
Or what with sound: is fortefied:
Prayse out the Lord: in state renewed,
For grace and power to all applied.
To none denyed.

Alleluya.

I chaunter cry: to all you here:
Prayse ye the Lord: with harty cheare.