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[To Goddis worschipe, þat dere us bouȝte,
To whom we owen to make oure mone
Of alle þe synnes þat we haue wrouȝte
In ȝouþe, in elde, many oone;
In þese psalmys þei ben þoruȝ souȝt,
In schame of alle oure goostli foon,
And in to Englische þei ben brouȝt,
For synne in man to be fordon.]