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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Let not my hart: declyne to euill,with wycked workes inurde:
With wycked men: to worke in will,
by their delites allurde.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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O kepe me saufe: fro crafty snare:which they to me do driue:
From wicked trappes: that men prepare:
which wickednes contriue.
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But rather let: these wicked fall:all whoel into theyr nets:
Betrapt themself: so be they all:
while I may scape theyr threats.
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