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Psalme. VIII.
The Argument.
Here thankes ensueTo God most due
for his great giftes to men
How Christ deiect
Of cruell sect
and how he raignth agayne
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O Lord our guide: thy name how widein all the world excels?
Thy glory great: thou hie hast set,
aboue the heauenly cels.
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Babes mouthes so yong: euen sucklings tongthy laude thou madest them tell:
Thy foes to blanke: their threates to danke,
to still thaduenger fell.
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Thy heauens whan I: consider hie,thy mighty worke of hand:
The Moone by night: of Starres the light,
in order how they stand.
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What thing is man: Lord thinke I than,that thou so him regardst?
What is mans childe? so pore so milde?
that thou so hym rewardst?
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Thou didst abate: his porte and state,more lowe then aungels bee:
Thou didst him crowne: in great renowne,
aduanst in dignitie.
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Thou madest him sitte: as Lord most fitte,of all thy workes of hand:
And vnder cast: all thing thou hast,
as his footestoole to stand.
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Both sheepe and cowe: the oxe to plowe,thou madest for man his loue:
The beast in fielde: both tame and wylde,
that man might all improue.
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All foules in skie: how hye they flie,yet stoupe for man his neede:
All fishe in sea: how deepe they be,
they ryse mans sonne to feede.
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O Lord of power: our gouernour,how much excelth thy name?
This world so wide: therin what bydeth,
doth sprede thy worthy fame?
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