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The whole Psalter translated into English Metre

which contayneth an hundreth and fifty Psalmes

Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

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The first Quinquagene.

To the Reader.

Of the vertue of Psalmes.

Henrie Haward Earle of Surrie in his Ecclesiastes.

Psalme. III.

Here beginneth the second booke of Psalmes.

The Seconde Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter, translated into Englishe Metre.

The third and last Quinquagene of Dauids Psalter, translated into Englishe Metre.

Gloria Patri for diuers Metres.

Te Deum.

The song of the three Children.

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Psalme. III.

The Argument.

This Psalme endight
How troubled sprite
may comfort haue of God.
As woe be gone
From Absalon
meke Dauid fled so brode.

Domine quid.

1

O Lord how ill: encrease they still,
that trouble me so sore?
Full many rise: in spitefull wise,
agaynst me more and more.

2

Right many one: whan I do mone,
alasse my soule they fret:
They say I haue: no God to saue,

Sela

oh this temptation great.

3

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.

4

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.

Sela

5

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.

6

To be afrayde: or yet dismayde,
for thousandes ten, what neede?
They go about: to driue me out,
but God will dull theyr speede.

7

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.

8

Unto the Lord: by truthes recorde,
belongth all sauing helth:
Thy blessing hand: so nie doth stand,
to worke thy peoples welth.