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Psalme. III.
The Argument.
This Psalme endightHow troubled sprite
may comfort haue of God.
As woe be gone
From Absalon
meke Dauid fled so brode.
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O Lord how ill: encrease they still,that trouble me so sore?
Full many rise: in spitefull wise,
agaynst me more and more.
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Right many one: whan I do mone,alasse my soule they fret:
They say I haue: no God to saue,
oh this temptation great.
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But yet O Lord: thou wilt accord,as shielde to fence my soule:
My worship cleare: thou art full deare,
my hed thou wilt extoll.
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I did but mone: with voyce alone,to God my Lorde in will:
He heard me iust: as I dyd trust,
from his so holy hill.
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I layde me downe: I slept full sound,and vp I rose agayne:
For God me kept: where safe I slept,
his grace dyd me sustayne.
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To be afrayde: or yet dismayde,for thousandes ten, what neede?
They go about: to driue me out,
but God will dull theyr speede.
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Up Lord saue mee: my God most free,on cheeke thou smitest my foes:
Well hast thou chrust: theyr teeth to dust,
of such as wicked goes.
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Unto the Lord: by truthes recorde,belongth all sauing helth:
Thy blessing hand: so nie doth stand,
to worke thy peoples welth.
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