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The Argument.
When Dauid long: was kept from raigne,This Psalme he sang: to ease his payne:
How kinges should rule: here see you playne,
As he would fayne,
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Both mercy meeke: & iudgement right,In Metres song: I wyll endight:
To thee I will: Lord sing in sight,
With hartes delyte.
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I wyll my lyfe: beare strayt in way,If thou from me: goest not astray,
In all my house: cleane hart shall lay,
Without denay.
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To wycked deede: none eye shall stand,And hate I wyll: all rebels band:
To ioyne wyth me: I wyll wythstand,
wyth hart and hand.
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A froward hart: and wilfull stout;From my whole sight: shall flee full out,
To me shall clout: no wycked rout,
Wythout all dout.
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Hys neyghbour who: styngth priuily,Hym will I stroy all vtterly,
I will not beare: proud hart [illeg.]ye,
Wyth pleasure hye.
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True men in earth: I wyll me get,Most nye to eye: wyth me to set:
Who walketh more strayt: shall serue me bet
Wythout all let.
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From far my house: they shal be sent,Who guiles can forge: or lyes inuent,
None eye on them: shall firme be bent,
Wyth myne assent.
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Yea soone by day: I will deface,Proud men in earth: of wycked trace,
To dryue all shrewes from Gods good place,
Wythout all grace.
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