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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.
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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.
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