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Benedictus deus in eternum.
Some wicked spirit thought my heart accurst,
Because it saw, how I was woe begon me;
Sorrow, and death and hell, did secke their worst,
With all their forces, all to fall vpon me.
Because it saw, how I was woe begon me;
Sorrow, and death and hell, did secke their worst,
With all their forces, all to fall vpon me.
Sorrow, did locke my heart with many a sob,
And brought my life vnto the doore of death:
And when death saw how my poore hart did throb
He shew'd the horrour of the hell beneath.
And brought my life vnto the doore of death:
And when death saw how my poore hart did throb
He shew'd the horrour of the hell beneath.
But, when my God did in his mercie see,
My soule besiedged thus on euery side:
With one faire looke he made their forces flye,
Nor death, nor hell, nor sorrow durst abide.
My soule besiedged thus on euery side:
With one faire looke he made their forces flye,
Nor death, nor hell, nor sorrow durst abide.
But left my soule in such a blessed case,
By mercies liuing loue to be relieued:
That I must sing in glory of his grace,
That helpt my soule when it was so agreeued.
By mercies liuing loue to be relieued:
That I must sing in glory of his grace,
That helpt my soule when it was so agreeued.
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