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The attribution of this poem is questionable.

[Yf any be distrest and fayne woulde gather]

Yf any be distrest and fayne woulde gather
some comfort, let him hast unto......Our Father
for we of hope and healpe are quite bereaven
except thou suckcour us............which art in heaven
Thou shewest mercy, therefor for the same
we praysse thee singeing............hallowed be Thy name
of all our misseries cast up the sum;
Shew us thy ioyes, and lett..........Thy kingdome come
Wee mortall are, and alter from our birth;
Thou constant arte.................Thy will be done on earth
Thou madest the earth as well as planetts Seaven;
Thy name be blessed heere..........as 'tis in heaven
Nothing wee have to use, or debts to paye,
except thou give it us..............give us this day
Wherewith to clothe us, wherewith to be fedd,
for without Thee we wante..........our daily breade
Wee want, but want no faults, for no day passes
But wee doe sinn...................forgive us our trespasses
Noe man from sining ever free did live
forgive us Lorde our sinns...........as we forgive
Yf we repent our faults Thou ne're disdainest us
We pardon them...................that trespasses agaynst us
forgive us that is past, a new path treade us
Direct us alwaies in thy fayth.......and leade us
Wee thine owne people and thy chosen nation
into all truth, but..................not into temtation
Thou that of all good graces art the giver
Suffer us not to wander.............but deliver
Us from the fierce assaults of worlde and divell
and flesh, so shalt thou free us.......from all evil
To these petitions let boath church and laymen
with one concent of hart and voyce say........................Amen.