Beatus vir. Psal. .i.

BEatus vir. Blessed is that man / whiche walketh nat in the coūsaile of the vngodly / & stādeth nat in the waye of sīners / & sytteth nat in the seat of the pestelēt scorners. But hath all his pleasure ī y ^e lawe of y ^e lord / & vpō it his mīde is ocupied both day & night Sith a man shall be lyke a tree planted by the ryuer [...]yde: which wyl gyue forth her frutes in due tyme / and her leues shall nat wither / for what so euer he shall do / shal ꝓspere. But so shal nat y ^e vngodly: for they shal be lyke dust which is dyspersed with the wynde. Wherfore these vngodly shal nat stande in the iugemēt / neither these syn­ners maye abyde in the companye of the rightwyse. For the lorde aproueth the waye of the ryghtwyse: but the waye of synners shall perisshe.

QUare fremuerūt gentes. Wherfore do the gentyls thus swell & clustre togyther? Wherfore do y ^e people of the iewes thus gnaste in vayne? Wherfore conspire y ^e kingꝭ of therth / & y ^e chefe pre­stꝭ thus cast theyr hedes togyder against the lorde & his anointed. Sayeng / lette vs breke their bondes / & lette vs caste of their yokes. But he y ^t hath his residēs ī heuē derideth thē / y ^e lorde scorneth thē ▪ Than shall he thrust them downe in his wrath / & in his indignation shal he all to trouble thē. I haue constitute & ordened my kynge / to be ouer Sion my holy hyl. I shall shewe forth y ^e lordes cōmaunde­mēt / for he said vnto me / y ^u arte my sonne whō I haue now openly declared. Aske of me / & I shall gyue the y ^t nations into thy heritage / to be thyn owne possession thorow out all the worlde. Thou shalte smyte thē togyther w ^t an yerne sceptre / & shalt br [...]ke thē lyke erthē vessels. Nowe therfore ye kynges be wise & vnderstand / ye rulers of the erth be content to be mo­nished & lerned. Serue ye y ^e lorde besely / study to gyue him his honour ioyfully w ^t reuerēce. Kysse ye the sonne / lest (he beīg wrath) your lyfe perishe / for hys angre [Page] shall be shortly kyndled. And thā bles­sed ar all men that truste in him.

DOmine quid. Lorde / see what a sorte there are that trouble me: full many there are y ^t ryse agaīst me. Many ther are that thīke thus vpō my soule / surely ther is no helth to be loked for from god / vnto this man. Selah. But thou lorde / y ^u art my helpe & my glory / thou liftest vp my heed. The lorde I called vpō with my prayer / & he answered me euen from his holy hyll. Selah. I shall lye down & slepe / I my self shall vpwake me for the lorde sustayneth me. I shall fere / ye thousandꝭ folke / althogh they besige me roūde aboute. A rise lorde / saue me any god / y ^u shalt gyue all my enemys such a clap on their chekꝭ / y ^t anone the tethes of these vngodly shal be broken. It is y ^e lordes properte to saue / and thy people it be houeth to be holpē and endued w ^t thy [...]enefytes. Selah.

[Page]¶ This worde Selah / sygnifyeth the sentence before to be pondred with a depe effecte / longe to be rested vpon / & the voyce there to be exalted.

CUm inuocarem. Whan I called vpō the / thou answeredest me / whi­che art y ^e god of my rightwysnes. Whan I was in astrayte / thou dyddest set me at large / haue mercy vpon me / and heare my depe desyre. O mē / howe long entende ye to turne my glory into shame / howe lōge wyll ye loue vayne thinges & seke lyes? Selah I wold ye knewe it / y ^t the lorde hath set aparte & chosē vnto hī his saint / the lorde shall here whan I call vpon hī. All though ye be moued / yet se ye synne nat / pondre all thinges in your mynde as ye lye in bedde / that ye myght so set your hertes at rest. Selah. Make your sacri [...]fice with rightwysnes / & put your trust [...] the lorde. Many thinke sayeng / se who shal shewe vs our desyre / lorde let thy shy [...]nyng face illumine vs. Thou hast pou­red [Page] my hert full of gladnes / whete & wy­ [...]e haue ben encresed vnto them in tyme. Now therfore (thei restored to peace [...] I shal lye downe & slepe / for y ^u (lord) hast so ordred me that I may lyue fre & safe

UErba mea auribus. Lysten vnto my wordꝭ (lord) & cōsyder my loude cōplaint. Gyue eare vnto my crieng / my gouerner / & my god / for before the / do I poure forth my prayer. Lorde / y ^u shalt here me ī the mornīg / ī the mornyng shal I make my prayer & loke vp vnto the. For thou art nat the god which may delyte in y ^e vngodly / the wycked men shalt haue no place with the. Synners shall nat abyde in thy presence / y ^u hatest who so euer are gyuen to wickednes. Thou shalt destroy these troublers w ^t their lyes bloudsheders / and men gyuen to deceyte (lord) y ^u shalt abhorre. But I vnder thy plētuouse fauour / shal go to thy house / & [Page] shal worship the w ^t reuerente feare in thy holi tēple. Lede me forth of daunger for thy rightwisnes sake / & from the daūger of my aduersaries / & let thy way be defē ­sed for me. For the truth is nat in their mouthes / in their hertes they norishe de­ceyte / their throte is an opē graue / and w ^t their tōge they flater. Gyue them into their synne / o god / let thē fall ī their own coūsels / caste thē downe hedlynge for the multitude of their sīnes / for agaynst the thei ar rebell. But thei mought reioyse who so euer trust in y ^e / they mought pray ꝑpetually also / & thou defēde thē y ^t they which seke y ^e glory of thy name / mought be glad of the. For thou lorde shalt be fauorable & gratioꝰ to y ^e rightwise / thou shalte compase him rounde aboute with thy goodnes / lyke as with a shylde.

DOmine ne. Ah lorde / rebuke me nat in thy wrath / neyther chasten me in thine angre. But deale fauorably w ^t me (oh lorde) for full sore brokē am I / heale me lord for my bones ar al to shakē [Page] My soule trēbleth sore / but lord how lō ­ge. Turne y ^e (lorde) & deliuer my soule / saue me for thy mercyes sake. For they veryly that ar in this dedly anguishe can nat thīke vpon y ^e / in this helly paynes / who may prayse the. I am wery w ^t syghyng / I shal water my bedde euery nyght with my teares / so that it shal swīme in them. My face is wrincled & dried vp w ^t care & angre / my enemyes haue made it full thynne w ^t trouble. Auoyde frō me ye workers of wikednes / for y ^e lorde hath hard my cōplaītes poured out w ^t wepīg. The lord hath harde my depe desyre / the lorde hath receiued my peticiō. Al myn enemyes shall be shamed & astonned / they shalbe put to flight & confounded sodēly.

[Page]DOmine deꝰ meus. Oh lorde which art my god / my trust is in the / saue me frō al that persecute me & deliuer me. Lest this mā rauysh my lyfe lyke a lion / [...]earyng my soule / no mā delyuering me. Lord / mi god if I haue cōmitted this thī ge / if I be about to do so wiked a thīge. If I haue nat done good for euell / ye / if I haue nat done good to my enemyes / frely delyueryng them frō periles. Let my enemye ꝑsecute my soule & take it / let him cast down my lyfe & bury my glory. Selah. Arise lorde & shewe thy self / re­pressyng the wrath of my troubloꝰ aduersaries w ^t worthy vengeance / make me at the last to enioye the authorite which y ^• hast giuen me. For so shal the congre­gatiō of thy people be gathered togither before the / ye / if there were none other cause / yet at the lest for delyuerāce of thy pore congregation set forth thy power. Lorde which art the iuge of the people iuge me after my ryghtwisnes & innocency which y ^u espied in me. Let the wickednes of the vngodly (I pray the) be made ones an ende of / & thou (o rightwise god) sercher of hert & reynes / gyue prosperous good lucke to the rightwyse. My defēce is ī god the sauiour of thē whiche are of pure & ꝑfet herte. God is a rightwyse iuge [Page] / & he is y ^e god whose vēgeaūce is redy at all tymes. Yf this mā wyl nat turne him frō his euyl / but wyl whet his swerd cōtynually / bēde his bowe & prepare it to shote. He shall p̄pare dedly arowes for his owne self / & smyte his owne cōpany. Lo / he traueleth and groueth forth wic­kednes / he hath cōceyued laborous affliction / & at laste bringeth forth lyes. He digged a pyt & hath made it holowe / & he is fallen into the dyke whiche he made. The mischefe which he entēded me shall fall vpō his own hed / & his violēs which he ordeined for me / he shal bring vpō his owne crowne. I shall magnifye the lor­de after his owne rightwisnes / & I shall sprede the name of the lorde which is the most hyghest.

DOmine dn̄s nt. Lorde / ye / our lord howe wonderfull reuerēt is thy name in euery lande / which hast lyft vp thy high magnificēce aboue y ^e heuēs. Ye / & [Page] that of the mouthꝭ of the litel souklingꝭ hast thou stablisshed thy myghty prayse agaynst thy enemyes / to smyte downe aduersary / & hī that wyll auenge him selfe. I shall therfore loke vp & wondre at thy heuens / lo / this are the workꝭ of thy fyngers / the mone & sterres / thou hast set thē so goodly. And lo / what thynge is mā mortall y ^t thou thus remēbrest hī? what is the sōne of Adā y ^t thou regardest him so gretly? Thou hast made hī nat moch lesse & inferior thā Angels / w ^t so great di­gnite & glory hast thou ēdued hī. Thou hast made hī lorde of thy handy workes / thou hast cast all thinges vnder his fete. As flockes of shepe all herdes of nete / & also the wilde bestꝭ. Foules of the aire & fisshꝭ of the see / & what soeuer swīmeth in the water. Lorde / ye our lorde / howe wōdreful reuerēt is thi nam ī all therth.

[Page]COnfitebor tibi do. I shal magnify the lord with my hert / I shal shewe forth all thy miracles. I shall reioyse & glory in the / I shal sprede thy name / oh most hyghest. For thou hast brought it so to passe / that al my enemyes are fled / they ar ded / one fallyng vpon another in their flyghte. For thou hast gyuen sen­tence with me / thou hast affirmed my cause / y ^u sittest ī iugement a rightwyse iuge. Thou hast sore blamed the hethē / the vngodly is fallē down ded / y ^u hast quenched their name for euer. O thou aduersary / hast thou distroied for euer / hast y ^u throwē downe cyties / is their memorial with thē ded / as y ^u thoughtest to bringe to passe. No verily / for the lorde raigneth yet styl for euer / his seat of iugemēt is made redy He shall iuge the worlde of his rightwysnes / & shal gyue sentēce vpō the people e­uēly. The lorde shall be a refuge for the pore oppressed in tyme of afflictiō. In the shal they trust y ^t know thy name / for y ^u wylte nat forsake the sekers of the lorde. Synge ye to the lorde / whiche dwelleth in Sion / declare his noble faytꝭ among the people. For he maketh en­querāce for murther / & forgetteh nat the bloudsheders / he shall nat forget the cry­yng of the pore afflicte Haue mercy vpō [Page] me (lord) behold my afflictiō which I suffre of my haters / lyft me vp euē frō the very thresshold of deth. That I myght re­mēbre all thy praises within the gates of Siō / I shall reioyse of the helth which y ^u hast brought. The heythen ar drouned in their own pyt / and their fete ar tyed in their own net which they bet so preuily. Noble is the lorde & full wide is his po­wer / ī y ^t the vngodly is thꝰ trapped ī his own snare / for such is his praise. Selah. The vngodly shal slyde down to hell & al heithen y ^t forget god. But the pore for­sakē shall nat be forgotē for euer / nether y ^e good hope of the aflicte shall alwaies be vayn. Arise lorde let nat the mortall mā p̄uayle / execute iugemēt vpō the he­thē. Lord smite thē with feare / lerne the hethē to konw their selues mortal. Selah

QUare dn̄e reces. Wherfore abydest thou so far (oh lorde) wylt y ^u be hyd frō vs in tyme of our afflyction? whyles the vngodly is a lofte he persecuteth the pore afflycte / let them be snared w ^t their [Page] owne crafty deceyt which they study for. For what thīge so euer lyketh hym y ^t he prayseth / he bendeth him self al to lucre / he careth nat whither he speke wel or e­uyll of the lorde. This vngodly man loketh a loft / he regardeth nat that ther is any god neither is he in his thoughtes. What thinges he take in hāde / they prosper a longe tyme to his minde / thy punyshement is lyfte vp high frō him / he thinketh to cast downe all his enemyes with a blast of his mouth. He thīketh in his hert I shal nat fal / I shal cōtinue throw out the worldes wythout hurte. His wordes swīme in periury / fraude / & de­ceite / what so euer his tōge saith / it is iniury & shrewdnes. He lyeth bent to cat­che decaied vyllages / he kylleth the innocēt preuily / his eyes ar fast vpon y ^e pore wretches. He layeth pryuy watches / he lyeth bēt like a lion ī his dēne to deuoure the poore afflicte / he distroyeth hī whiles he drawe him into his net. He maketh him self like a sycke weyke man / but the pore afflyct fal away thorow his strēgth He thinketh in his herte / god careth nat for these mē / he turneth his face frō thē / & wyll neuer se thē. Aryse lord (oh god) lyft vp thy hāde / dyspise nat thy pore af­flict. For how lōge shall this vngodly [Page] blaspheme god? for he sayth in his here that thou seest nat. But thou seest ve­rily / for thou beholdest īiury & indigna­tion / & whā it shal please y ^e / thou wilt de­clare thy selfe in very dede. The poore afflicte cōmitteth him selfe to the / which art wonte to be an helper to the yong fa­therles. Al to breke the strength of the vngodly & hurtful man / folowe vpon hī / serchyng out his vngodlynes & than shal he nowhere apere. The lorde is kīge for euer / & these hethen vngodly haue peris­shed & are fallē frō his erth. The desyres of the pore afflyct the lorde hath herde / y ^u shalt gyue them aquy [...] minde / & thy eare shalbe intēt vnto thē. To delyuer y ^e yōg fatherles & pore oppressed so y ^t this mor­tall mōstre be no more fered vpon therth.

IN domino confido. I haue put my trust in the lorde / wherfore thā by byd ye me fle doune frō your hyl like a byrde▪ For lo / the vngodly haue bēt their bow [...] [Page] & haue set their arowes therin / to smyte the perfyte in hert espyed ī preuy places. For ther is no place sure to abyde ī / but what (I pray you) haue y ^e riȝtwise deser­ued? The lorde is resydēt in his holy tē ­ple / in heuē is his seat regall / his eyes lo­ke forth / he be holdeth to espie y ^e sōnes of mē. The lorde examyneth y ^e rightwise / but he hateth in his hert y ^e vngodli / & the man also y ^t loueth vyolēce & wronge. He wyl sēde fyer vpō the vngodly lyke rayn / brēning lyghtenīges / brimstō / and hote whirlwindꝭ for such parte shall they drike. For rightwise is the lord / he loueth the rightwyseman & fauoreth the mayn­tener of the ryght.

SAluum me fac. Helpe lord / for ful few faithfull ar left among the chyl [...]rē of mē. It is but vanite what so euer [...]ne speketh to another / they flater falsly [...]hewyng one thyng with their mouth / & [...]oueryng another in their hert. The lor [...]e shall cut these proude spekyng tonges [...]ute of these false glauerynge mouthes. [Page] Whiche say thus of tho thinges whiche we make / we wyll chalenge auctorite of our owne tonges / our mouthꝭ ar the auctorite / who shulde be our lorde to cōmaū de vs. For the distruction of my pore afflicte / & for the waylyng of this nedeons now shall I ryse (saith the lorde) he shall saye w ^t him selfe / I shal brynge them in­to sauyng helth. Nowe the speches of the lorde ar purespeches they ar lyke sil­uer puryfyed & tried to the vttermoste in erthen caldrens. Thou lorde preserue these pore ones / kepe them from this wi­ked nacion for euer. These vngodly ho­uer about in euery place / & where suche bely bestꝭ ar promoted / there encrese the wicked children of men.

USquequo. Howe lōge lorde wylte thou tarye? wylte thou forgette me for euer? howe longe wylte thou tourne thy face fro me? Howe lōge shal I thus cōtynue musinge with my selfe / fyllynge my herte full of sorowe daye by daye? Howe longe shal myne enemye be thus exalted ouer me? Beholde & answere me [Page] lorde / my god / kepe me wakynge / lest the slomber of deth come vpon me. Ye / lest peraduenture myne enemye may saye I preuayled agaynste him / for if I fall my troublers wyll reioyse. But I trust in thy mercy / my herte shalbe gladde of thy helpe / I shall gyue thankes to my lorde for he hath rewarded me.

DIxit insipiēce. The folyshe wicked men thinke in their hertes y ^t god is nat. Shrewde & abhominable thyngꝭ do they / nowhere is ther one y ^t wyl do good The lorde loked frome heuens downe v­pon the men / to se if there were any that had any knowlege or regarded god. And sayd / is euery mā & altogyder swarued so farre frō the waye / perisshed & vn­profitable / that there is no man that wyl do good / nat one? Are they so farre be­sydes them selue all these workers of wykednes? Se / they deuoure my peo­ple as one shulde ete vp brede / they are holden with no feare of the lorde. Wherfore they shall be feared with feare incō parable: [Page] for god hath shakē the bones of thy besegers. Thou shalte dispyse the because god hath repelled them / for god is in the iust & rightwyse nation. They scorned thē because thei folowed the coū sell of the poore afflicte and put all theyr truste in the lorde. Oh / wolde god that the sauynge helthe wolde ones come to Israell from Sion / that the lorde wolde make an ende of the captiuite of his peo­ple / that Iacob might be gladde and Is­rahell myght reioyse.

DOmine quis ha. Lorde who shall dwel in thy tabernacle? Who shall sitte in thy holy hyll? Euen he that ly­ueth in syngle & pure innocency studieth to do rightwisnes and speketh the truth euen frō his herte. He that backbyteth nat w ^t hys tonge / & in nothynge hurteth his neighbour / neither suffreth him to be reuyled or hurte vnworthely. But ab­horreth suche sclanderous and noughtye persones / & suche as worshyp the lorde / he setteth moche by. Ye / & what soeuer he swereth / he wil ꝑforme / although it be [Page] to his great hurte & hynderaunce. And lendeth nat his money for auantage / ne­ther receyueth gyftes agaynst any inno­cēt. He that studyeth to do these thīges / shall abyde alwayes & neuer be moued.

COnserua me domine. Defende me (god) for I haue trusted in the: o my soule saye y ^u vnto the lorde / my goodꝭ profyt the nothyng at all. I shall ther­fore study with all my herte to helpe thy noble saintes / which yet lyue vpō therth For they which bestowe their goodes of any other thyng / shall make them ydols / and folowen feruently strange goddes. I shall nat offre their blody sacrifyce / no I wyll nat knowe ne remēbre the names of their idols. The lorde is the portion of my heritage & my substance / my lot is in thy hande. The lottes fell to me hap­pely in to plesaunt places / a goodly riche heritage chaunsed to me. I shall thanke the lorde which hath well counseled me: but yet my raynes teach me these thyngꝭ by nyght. I set y ^e lorde euermore before [Page] myne eyes / for whyles he is at my ryght hande / I shall nat slyde. Wherfore my hert shal ioye and my tonge shall reioyse / ye / my body shall haue sure reste. For y ^u wylte nat so forsake my soule / y ^t it shulde go and abyde in the graue / neither wylte thou there suffre thy saynt to go into corruption. Thou shalt shewe me the path / wherin I maye go to lyfe / thy presence fylleth men w ^t all gladnesse / All ioye is euer oute layed by thy ryght hande.

EXaudi dn̄e iusticiā. Lorde / here my rightwyse prayer / & take vp my pe­ticyon / gyue hede vnto my prayer / which I byd with pure mouthe. Let thy iugement declare my īnocency / shewe thy self to haue respecte vnto thy ryght. Serche my herte / & loke into it euen in the night trye me as metall with fyer / and yet shalt thou finde that my thought differ nat fro my wordes. I endeuer my selfe to auoy [...]e mēnes wayes / accordynge to thy wor­ [...]e / and I kept them in the way that fled [Page] vnto me. Make fast my steppꝭ (I pray y ^e) in thi pathes / lest my fete slyde. Upon y ^• I call for y ^u art wonte to here me (o god) laye thyn eare to me & heare me speke. Declare thy excellent mercy / which arte wonte to saue me / trusting ī the frō the risers againste thy right hande. Kepe me euen as the aple of thin eye / & hyde me as though I were vnder the shadow of thy wynges. Hyde me frō the violēt vngodly / hyde me frō my enemies closynge me in to take awaye my lyfe. Whiche haue their preuy riches / & speke proudly with their mouthes. Nowe lay they a wayte at our steppꝭ / theyr eyes haue they fast­ned vpō vs to espie if thei may at any ty­me cast vs to y ^e groūd. He lyeth bēt lyke a lyon euē flat downe for his praye to be deuoured / he lurked lyke y ^e yonge lyon in his priuy dēne. Arise lord & preuēt him / cast him downe / delyuer my soule frō the vngodly whō y ^u vsest for the swerde. Delyuer vs frō these mortall mē which are thy hāde wherw ^t thou smitest / euen y ^e mortall mē addict to this worlde. Which desyer their ꝑte in this presēt lyfe / to haue their beles fylled with thy treasure / and their chyldrē to haue ynough / & also to leue to their neuewes. But I armed with thy ryghtwysnes shall beholde thy face [Page] and shalbe satisfyed whā I shal vpwake arisynge in the beauteous symilitude.

DIligam te. To thy mercye shall I cleue (lorde) which art my strēgth / The lorde is my rocke of stone / my bul­warke / my delyuerer / my god / my defen­der / vnto whose faithfulnes I betake my selfe / my childe / my sauynge power / my refuge. I magnifyed and worshypped y ^e lord / & so was I saued fro my enemies Dedly anguysshe inuaded me / and the soden rysynges lyke a rosynge flode of these men of perdicyon assailed me. The strayght helly ieopardes closed me ī / the [Page] snares of deth hampred me. But while I was in this strait I called vpon y ^e lord I cryed vnto my god / and he harde my voyce in his kingꝭ hall / my cryeng came vp to his eares. For y ^e erth was moued and trēbled / the fete of y ^e hylles staggard and were smytten all to pouder / for he was angry. Smoke ascēded / as ye wold saye / into his nostrels / & fyer deuouringe all thinges flewe out of his mouth / & he spouted forth burnynge coles. He lefte the heuens & came downe / a derke cloude was vnder hys fete. He rydeth vpon a swyfte foule & flieth / borne with the winges of the wynde. He made hī a preuye closet / powring darkenesse rounde about his tabernacle / congelīge ther vnto blacke waters into thycke cloudes. But at his shyninge presence / these derke cloudꝭ vanished awaye agayne / with haile sto­nes / and fyry thunder boltes. The lorde thundred in the heuens the most hyghest sente forthe his voyce / with hayle stones and fyry thūdreboltes. He cast forth his arowes & threwe thē doune / he sent forth moche lyghtnynge / & cast them into gret feare Whyles thou thretenest & blamest (oh lorde) blowing forth thy wynde / the holowe bankes of the floudes ar sene vnder drye / & the foundations of the worlde [Page] stande naked. He put downe hys hande from aboue and toke me vp / he drewe me out of moche waters. He delyuered me from mighty enemies / and frō my haters for they preuayled agaynst me. He pre­uented me beynge in ieoperdye with hys helpe / the lorde was my socour. He led me forth and set me at large / he defended me bycause he fauoured me. The lorde gaue me after my ryght dealynge / and rewarded me accordynge vnto the purenes of my handꝭ. I obserued verily y ^e way­es of the lord & fell nat vngodlely fro my god. For I had all his decrees before myn eyes / & I dyd nat thruste awaye his lawe fro me. I behaued my self purely & ꝑfitly toward him / & toke gret hede lest I shuld cōmit any yuell thīge. And y ^e lord hath rewarded my right dealynge / & the purenes of my handꝭ which he aproueth For y ^u art holy to the holy man / & offrest thy selfe pure to the pure man. With y ^e pure innocēt y ^u dealest pure innocently / & with the shrewde mā thou playest y ^e ouer whart. Thou hast veryly saued thy pore oppressed people / & hast cast down men y ^t loke alofte. Thou (lorde) hast lightened my cādel / my god hath put away my der­kenes w ^t his lyght. Thorow the haue I broken the hole raye of the batayle / tho­row [Page] my god I ouerlept the walles. God is he whose dedes are pure and parfyte / the wordes of the lorde are purifyed / and tried lyke as with fyer / he is a buckler to all that truste in him. For who is god but the lorde? who is a defender / but our god? Euen the same god whiche hathe decked & endued me with a lordely power & hath furthered my waye spedely. He hath made my fete as light as the fete of gotes / and hath made me to ouerronne placꝭ were they neuer so hygh. He hath exercysed and accustomed my handes w ^t batayle / & hath made me to breke bowes of stele with my armes. Thou hast de­fended me with thy sauynge shylde & bu­kler / and thy right hande stayed me / thy fauorable gētylnes made me to haue the ouerhāde of my enemyes. Thou dydest hedge in my waye that I myght go fre­lye therin / so that my heles shulde nat slyde. I folowed vpō my enemies & toke thē / & neuer turned vntyll I had slayne them. I slewe them / for they might nat stande in my handes / they were throwē downe vnder my fete. Thou hast taught me to fyghte / ye / and that with a puys­saunte power / and as manye as rose a­gaynste me / thou haste thruste them vn­der me. Thou broughtest it so to passe / [Page] that myne enemyes were fayne to turne their backes / and I made them awaye that hated me. They cryed / but there was no man to kepe them / they cryed to the lorde / but he answered them nat. I knocked theym togyther as small as dust layed redy for y ^e wynde / I trode thē as small as dyrte of the streates. Thou hast delyuered me from this chydynge / & contentyouse people / and haste made me ruler ouer the gentyles / the folke of whō I had lytell knowlege serued me. As sone as they herde of me / they came to gy­ther & dyd homage vnto me / the lyenge alyauntes were made subiectes & seruauntes vnto me. These aliaūtes were made drye for feare / and trembled whyles they were shyt vp in strōge holdes. And yet lyueth the lorde / my defendour moughte be praysed / and god my sauyour mought be exalted. Euen god which hath gyuen me power to auenge me of my enemyes / and hathe subdued the people to me. Which hath delyuered me from myne e­nemyes / he hath set me ouer them which rose agaynst me / and hath delyuered me from the vyolent man. Wherfore I shall magnifye the (oh lorde) with hye praise amōge the nations / and shall synge with thankes geuynge vnto thy name. [Page] Whiche hathe made great helth for hys kynge / he hath delte gentely with his anoynted Dauid / and also withe his seede into euerlastynge.

CEli enarrant. The heuens declare the maiestye of god / and the fyrmamente sheweth what are his workes. One daye succedynge another / whetteth contynually our thoughtes / & one night folowyng another / encreaseth our knowlege These creatures haue nether spech nor wordes / neyther is their voyces any where herde. And yet their poyntinge & shewynge hathe taught all the worlde / & their dōme speche hath gone forth īto all the costꝭ of y ^e worlde. He hath fastened in thē a tabernacle for y ^e sōne / this sōne co­meth forth of his cloudꝭ like a bridegrōe ye lyke a fresshe valyant knyght to make his course. From the farthest eest parte of the heuyns cometh he forthe / hauynge his recourse vnto the other extreme / nei­ther is there any man that maye hyde hī [Page] from his heat. The lawe of the lorde is perfyte / refresshynge the soule / the testy­monye of the lorde is faithful / ministrīg wysdome to the vnleeued. The cōmaun­demētes of the lorde are right / makynge glad the herte. The thinges whiche god cōmaundeth are playne & pure / & lyghtē the eyes. The feare of the lorde is pure and holy abidynge for euer / the plesures of the lorde ar true & right in euery parte. More worthy to be desyred than golde & precyouse stones / sweter than the honye combe whan it dropeth. And thy seruāt is taught & monisshed by thē / that same obseruynge of them is a great rewarde. Who maye perceyue and consyder what thynge is synne? purge me from secrete euyls. Also turne thou these great syn­nes from thy seruant / leste they haue do­mination ouer me / & than shall I be pure and clere from euery great synne. Let y ^e speches of my mouth & the thoughtes of my herte be plesaunte & accepte vnto the lorde my defender and my redemer.

[Page]EXaudiat te dn̄s. Whan thou art in any strayte / than the lorde myghte here the / the name of the god of Iacob might set the in sauegarde. He myghte sende the helthe from his holy place / and from Sion might he strēgthen the. He might remēbre al thy offringꝭ / & thy brent sacrifyces he might accept. Selah He might giue the thy hertes desier / and might stablysshe all thy entent. We shal reioyse in thy helth: in the name of oure god lyfte we vp our baners with trium­phe / whan the lorde hathe gyuen the thy desier And let euery man saye / nowe do I knowe that the Lorde hath preserued his anoynted. He hath herde him frome his secrete heuenly place / ye / and that in the sauyng power of his right hande. Some trusted in their chariettes / & some in their horse: but we called vpō y ^e migh­tye name of the lorde which is our god. Nowe they are thrust downe and all fal­len: but we stande and are made faste. The lorde preserued vs / he is our kynge and answerith vs whan we call vpon hī.

DOmine in virtute. Lorde / y ^e kyng shall ioye in thy power / & shall re­ioyse gretly in thy helpe. Thou hast gy­uen him the desiers of his herte / and the prayers of his mouth thou hast nat tur­ned awaye. Selah. Thou hast preuēted him with all maner of benefytes / y ^u haste set a crowne of precious stones vpon his hedde. He asked lyfe of the / & thou ga­uest it him / ye / and that a full longe lyfe. Thy helpe tourned him to great glorye / thou hast endued him richely with noble fame & clerenesse. For thou hast set him in such estate / y ^t he may flowe ꝑpetually in all maner of goodnesse / thy cōfortable presēce maketh him glad. For this kīg trusteth in y ^e lorde / & he strengthned with the mercy of the moste highest shall nat swarue. Thy hande hath ouertaken all thy enemies / thy right hāde hath holden as many as hated the. Thou hast brent them lyke a brēnyng furnace / whan thy indignation wexed hote. The lorde swalowed thē vp in his wrath / & fyer consu­med thē. Their progeny perisshed from therth / & theyr postirite were worne out among the men. For they had bēt their myschefe vpon the / they began coūseyls [Page] which they might nat bringe to passe. Thou shalt set them before the for a marke / that w ^t thy bowe thou mightest shote thē euen in their faces. Be thou lift vp lorde in thyne owne power / we shall sīge with prayse / and magnifye thy strength.

DEus meus deus. My god / my god lo / wherfore forsakest y ^u me? howe farre is thy helpe from my out cryenge? My lorde shall I thus crie and call vpon the all daye / & yet wylte thou nat here? shall I crye all night and neuer ceasse? Uerily yet art thou that holy on whiche dwellest in Israhell extollynge the with prayse. Our fathers trusted vpon the they trusted vpon the & thou deliueredest them. They cryed vnto the & were delyuered / they trusted vpō the and were nat shamed. But as for me I am but a wor­me and no man / euen the very approbry [Page] of the men / and am abiecte frō the vylest folke. All that se me made but a laugh­ynge stocke on me / they mocked me with their lippes / & wagged their heddꝭ at me. Sayeng / this vyllayne referred all thinges to the lorde / let him nowe delyuer hī if he wyll / for he loueth hym well. But yet thou arte he whiche leddest me out of my mothers wombe myn owne refuge / euen from my mothers teares. As sone as I came into this worlde / I was layde in thy lappe / thou art my god euen from my mothers wōbe. Go thou nat farre fro me / for my trouble draweth nigh / neither is there any mā y ^t wil helpe. There are beset me rounde aboute great sturdy steares / ye / that fatte bulles of Bashan haue hedged me in. Lyke a rorīge lyon pantyng and gapyng for his prya [...] / their mouthes ar open vpō me naked be­fore them. I sanke awaye lyke water / all my bones shoke out of ioynt my herte within m [...] melted away lyke waxe. The moyster of my body was dryed vp / and I was lyke a po [...]sherde / my tonge cleued to the sydes of my mouthe / thou [...] me to my graue. For euen lyke dogges they came about me / the chy [...]he of noy­ous men hedged me in / they dygged tho­row my hādes & fete. A mā might haue [Page] tolde all my bones / and they gasyng vpō me thus petylesse entreated / toke theyr pleasure. They parted my ouer clothes to theym selue / & for my tother cote they casted dyse. But thou (oh lorde) be nat farre / o my strength / haste the to come & helpe me. Delyuer my lyfe from y ^e deth stroke / and my deare soule from the wodnesse of these dogges. Saue me from y ^e mouthes of these lyons / and defende my pore symplenesse frō the hornes of these vnycorns. I shall sprede thy name amōg my bretherne / in the myddes of the con­gregation / I shall prayse the. I saye / ye that feare the lorde / se that ye prayse him all ye of the seede of Iacob glorifye him / and all ye of the progeny of Israhell fere him. For he hath nat despysed nor ab­horred the troublouse afflyctyon of the pore / in no maner of wyse turneth he his face from hī / but whan he cried vnto him he herde him. I shall praise the in y ^e gret cōgregation / I shall ꝑform my vowes before his worshippers. The meke mē shal ete and be satisfyed / they y ^t seke the lorde shal praise him / their hert shal lyue & ioye for euer. The dwellers in thextreme partes of therth shal remēbre thē selues & be turned to the lorde / & all hethen nations shal fall downe before the. For the kingdome [Page] is the lordes / & he is lorde ouer all natiōs. All the riche men of therth shal ete & do him homage / they shalbe bowed down before him & discēde in to their graues / for they may nat ꝓlonge any lyfe to their soules. But their posterite shall serue him / & shalbe nōbred to y ^e lord for euer And thus their chylders chyldren shall shewe the rightwisnesse / whiche he hath gyuē to y ^e peple / which is yet to be borne

DOminus regit me. The lord is my pastore and feder / wherfore I shall nat wante. He made me to fede in a full plentuous batle groūde / and dyd dryue & retche me at layser by the sewte ryuers. He restored my lyfe & ledde me by the pa­thes of ryghtwysnes / for his name sake. Ye / if I shuld go thorow the myddes of deth / yet wyll I feare non yuel / for thou arte with me / thy staffe & thy shepe hoke counfort me. Thou shalt sprede & gar­nyshe me a table / ye / & that in the syght of myne enemyes thou shalte souple my hed with oyntement / and my full cuppe shall laugh vpon me. Ye / and thy mer­cy and gentelnes shall folowe me all my [Page] lyfe / I shal sitte in the house of the lorde a longe tyme.

DOmini est terra. The erthe is the lordes / & all that is cōteyned in it: the rounde worlde & all that inhabyt it. For in the see hath he set his foūdatiōs / and hath buylded her aboue the flodes. Who shall clymbe into the hyll of y ^e lorde or who shall abyde in his holy place? An innocēte in his dedes / and he that is pure in hert / that hath nat extolled hīself proudly into vanyte / neither hath sworn for any disceyte. This man shalbe fedde with the blessynge of the lord / & with the mercy of god his sauyour. This is the nation gyuen all vnto him / & seketh him this is the very right Iacob· Selah. Oh ye gates / lyfte vp your selues / ye ga­tes euer lastynge be ye opened / & this gloryouse kynge shall in enter. Who is this [Page] kynge y ^• is so glorious? it is the myghty valiaunt lorde / Noble in power / a lorde exellent in strength to wage batayle. Oh ye gates lyft vp your selue / ye gates euerlastyng be ye opened / & that gloryoꝰ kynge shall ī entre. Who is this kynge that is so glorioꝰ? it is the lord of hostes it is he y ^• is this gloryous kyng. Selah.

AD te dn̄e leuaui. Unto the (oh lor­de) I lyfte vp my mynde: my god I trust in the / let me nat be shamed lest min enemyes reioyse vpon me. For they shal nat be shamed who so euer depende vpon the: but they shalbe shamed that wrong­fully hurte innocentes. Shewe me thy wayes lorde / & wonte me to thy pathes. Lede me forth for thy faithfull truthes sake / acquainte me with the / for thou art god my sauyour of whom I depende parpetually. [Page] Lorde remembre thy mercy & thy gracyouse fauour / for in these thyn­ges thou excellest euē frō the beginnīg. But the synnes of my youthe withe my vngodlynesse also / remembre thou nat / remēbre me accordynge to thy goodnesse and for thy mercyes sake (oh lorde). Good and rightwyse is the lorde / wher­fore he wyll instructe & te [...]he synners the waye. He wyll make the lowe lyons to go in rightly & in due order: & wyll teche meke men his waye. All the pathes of the lorde are mercy and faithfulnesse / to those men whiche kepe touche and coue­naunt with him. For thy names sake (oh Lorde) forgyue me my wyckednesse / for it is very moch. Who soeuer that mā be that fereth the lorde / he shall tech him the chosē right waye. His mīde shall enioye good thingꝭ / and his posteryte shall possesse the lande as right heritage. The lorde is a secrete sure thynge to thē that feare him / & theym shall he make to knowe his conuenaunte and promyse. My eyes shalbe euer open vpō the lorde / for he wyll drawe my fete out of the net. Beholde me & haue mercye vpon me / for I am alone forsaken / full of afflyction. The sorowful syghꝭ of my hert encrease more & more / lede me out of mine āguish. [Page] Beholde my poore state & my heuynesse / forgyue me all my sīnes. Consyder my enemyes / for they are full many [...] & wyth furiouse hatered they persue me. Kepe my soule & delyuer me lest I be shamed / for I haue put my trust in the. Defende me y ^t I maye lyue rightly hur­tynge no man / for of the do I depende. Redeme and lose Israhell (oh god) from all his aduersyties.

IUdica me domine. Be iuge for me (Lorde) for I am purposed to lyue innocētly / and whyles I trust in the lor­de I shal nat wauer. Proue me (lorde) & serch me / trye my reynes / & my hert / lyke as metall with fyer. For thy mercy is e­uer before myn eyes / I lede my lyfe ī thy faithfulnesse. I haue nat delyted in the companye of vayne men / neither haue I assocyated my selfe with these holowe & subtyll men. I hate the church of hurt­full & noyouse men / neither haue I cōspyred [Page] with y ^e vngodly. I shall endeuer my handes to be pure / voyde all disceyte / and thy altare (oh lorde) shall I go aboute. To synge thy prayse and to shewe forthe what soeuer wounderfull dede thou hast done. Lorde / derebeloued is thy house vnto me / & the feare of thy beautyfull ta­bernacle also. Take nat away my soule with the vngodly / neyther yet my lyfe w ^t these blody men. In whose handꝭ deceyt is turned & canuast / and their right hāde is full of brybes. But I lyue harmlesse and innocently / redeme me & haue mercy vpō me. My fete is fastened in a place well worthy for me / in the congregatiōs I shall magnifye and prayse the lorde.

DOminus illuminatio. The lorde is my lyght and my sauynge helth / of whom thā shall I be afrayd? The lorde is the stronge defence of my lyfe / of whō [Page] than shall I be afrayd? Whā the noīous and harmfull men which were my aduersaries / fall vpon me to deuour my flesshe: than shall they smyte themselfe agaynste the rocke & fall. Ye / & if they pit [...]he felde and bende their ordynaunce agaynst me / yet shall nat my hert feare. Yf batayle be bente agaynst me / yet shall I truste to the promyse of god. One peticyō asked I of the lorde which I wyll folowe vpon that is / I might sytte in the house of the lorde all dayes of my lyfe. Where I miȝt beholde the beautefull regalty of y ^e lorde and vyset his holy temple. For he hath hyd me / as though I were ī his tabernacle in tyme of persecutyon / he shall hyde me in the preuy place of his tente / & shall lyfte me vp into a rocke. He shall gyue me the ouer hande of myne enemys whi­che haue compassed me in / & I shall offer ioyfull sacrifyces / I shall synge & playe the psalmes before y ^e lorde. Lorde here my voyce / I call vpon the / haue mercye vpon me & answer me. My hert thought vpon the / I sought to se the / it is the lorde that I seke. Turne nat thy face from me / suffre nat thy seruant to styde in thy wrath / hitherto hast thou ben my helper cast me nat nowe awaye / neither forsake me / o god my sauyoure. For where my [Page] father & my mother fayled me / there the lorde gathered me to him. Lorde teache me thy waye / & lede me forth in the right path frō them that laye awayte for me. Let theym nat take their pleasure vpon me which ar my troublouse enemyes / ly­ynge wytnesses stode to gyther styffe a­gainst me. Whose vyolence had greuously oppressed me / had I nat beleued to en­ioye those thinges which ar good amōge the lyuyng men. Depende & wayte thou vpon the lorde / be thou stronge / it is he that shall strengthen thy herte / depende vpon the Lorde.

AD te domine clamabo. Upon the lorde do I call / which art my stronge defence dispyse me nat / neyther forsake thou me vnlesse I be lyke men lette downe in to their graues.

[Page]Here my prayer / whyles I crye vnto the and lyfte vp my hādes vnto thy holy temple. Plucke me nat into vengeaunce w ^t the vngodly / with those which study for shrewdnesse / spekyng pesable with their neighbours whyles they norissh euyll in their hertes. Gyue them as they deserue and after their malycious study / giue thē after their dedes / acquyte them their de­seruynge. For they regarded nat the workes & dedes of the lorde / he shall therfore destroye them / and nat edyfye them. Praysed be the lorde / for he hath harde the depe desyres of my mīde. The lorde is my strēgth he is my bukler in him trusted my herte & I was holpen / wherfore my hert reioyseth and I shall magnifye hī in my sōge. The lord is their strēgth and a sauīge power to ꝑserue his anoynted. Saue thy people / do good to thy heritage / fede and gouerne thē / and lyft them vp for euermore.

AFferte dn̄o. Giue vnto the lorde ye that excell in mighty power / gyue ye vnto the lorde honour and the prayse [Page] of his power. Gyue the lorde worshippe worthy his name / honour y ^e lorde in his holy kinges halle. The voyce of the lorde is in the watery cloudes / God / whose maiestye is to be feared withe reuerence thundreth / the lorde is declared vpō gret waters. The voyce of the lorde is pas­syng strōge / the voyce of the lorde is full of maiesty. The voyce of y ^e lorde smyteh togither ceder trees / the lorde breketh togither the ceders of Libany. He maketh the mountaynes of Libany & Hierion to leape togither lyke calues / they ronne togither lyke the calues of vnycornes. The voyce of the lorde casteth & cutteth forth fyrye lyghteninges. The voyce of the lorde maketh the desert to quake / the lorde made euen the deserte of Kades to tremble. The voice of the lorde maketh hartes & does to grone & to bray / & vnco­uereth the thicke wodes / whiche all ma­keth for his praise to be said in his tēple The lorde ruleth ouer the vnyuersall flode / the lorde there kepeth resydens / a kynge euerlastyng. The lorde mynistreth strength to his people / the lorde is bene­fyciall to his people / gyueng them pro­sperous peace.

EXaltabo te domine. I shall exalte the (lorde) for thou hast axalted me / and hast nat made my enemyes to reioy­se vpon me. Oh lorde my god / I haue called vpon the / and thou hast healed me. Lorde / thou haste led my soule forth of my graue / thou hast restored my lyfe lest I shulde haue gone downe into the pitte Ye sayntes of the lorde synge vnto him a prayse / and se that ye sprede his holye memoriall. For it is but a momēt that his wrath endureth / but longe is the ly­fe y ^• cometh of his beneuolence. Wepyng and waylynge cometh in at the euen tyde but anon after / gladnes ariseth with the mornynge. Whan all thynges were prosperous aboute me / I thought with my selue that I shulde neuer slyde. Lorde of thy good wyll / thou stablysshedest my kyngdome lyke an hyll / for as sone as y ^u haddest turned away thy face / I was a­stōned [Page] and troubled. The lorde called I vpon / to y ^e lorde dyd I make my pray­er. I sayd with my selfe / what profy­teth my lyfe yf I be putte nowe in to my graue? shall the duste of my carcasse magnifye y ^• / or yet declare thy faythfulnes. Here lorde and haue mercy vpon me: lorde / be thou my helpe. Thou haste tur­ned my mournynge in to ioye / thou hast shaken me out of my mournynge sacke / & clothed me with gladnes. Wherfore my tonge shall synge thy prayse / and shall nat cease (lorde my god) I shall magni­fye the with prayse into euerlastynge.

IN te domine sperau [...]. In the (Oh lorde) hau [...] I trusted / lette me ne­uer be shamed / for thy ryghtwysenes sa­ke delyuer me.

[Page]Bowe down thyne eare vnto [...] spede y ^• to delyuer me / be y ^u my stonye rocke where vpon I myght sit fast / be thou my strōge defēced castell wherin y ^u maist p̄serue me. For thou art my rocke & my bulwarke / wherfore lede thou me forth for thy na­mes sake / and take the charge of me. Lede me forth of the net [...]e whiche they haue set so pryuely for me / for thou arte my strength. I betake my spiryte into thy handes / for y ^u shalt redeme me (lorde my god) which kepest true promyse at al tymes I hated these vaine witches ob­seruynge inchauntementes / for I cleued and trusted to the lord. I shall ioye and reioyse vpon thy mercy / for thou hast lo­ked vpon my affliction / and hast knowen my soule beynge in anguisshe. Neither hast thou shyt me vp in the handes of my enemyes / but hast set my fete at large. Haue mercy vpon me / for anguisshe and tribulation are come vpon me / my face / soule / & body / ar wasted away for anger. My lyfe is brokē sore with sykenesse and my yeres w ^t sorowfull sighes / my strēgth is wasted for sorowe of mīde / beholdyng thyngꝭ amysse / & my bones wer cōsumed I was reuyled of all my aduersares / and chefly of myne owne neyghbours / myne owne famyliare acquayntance / abhorred [Page] and feared me / and they that se me anon renue forth at dores fro me.

I fell from their hertes / clene forgoten as one that hadde bene ded / I was as a thinge all for lorne. For I herde great offences put vpon me / ye / and that of many men / fere closed me about whan they toke their coūsel togider agaynst me / for they coūselled craftely to take awaye my lyfe. But I trusted in the (O lorde) I sayd that thou arte my god. The tyme of my age is in thy hande / delyuer me frō the hāde of myn enemyes / euen from thē which persecute me. Lette thy presens shyne vpon thy seruant / saue me for thy mercyes sake. Lorde suffre me nat to be shamed for I haue called vpō the / let the vngodly be shamed and be nombred with thē that cease ī their graues. Let their liynge mouthes be made domme / which speke proude thynges arrogantly w ^t dys­pite agaynst the rightwysmā. Oh / how bounteous are tho good thinges whiche thou hast layde vp in store for thy wor­shyppers? ye / the whiche thou hast done all redy to them whiche / commytte them selues to thy faythfull promyse / ye / and that before all mortall men. Thou ke­pest them from the stomblyng stockes of these proude men / and hydest them pri­uely [Page] before the / thou hydest them in thy tabernacle frō their sclaunderous tongꝭ Praysed be y ^e lorde / for he hath wrought his excellēte mercy meruelously with me ye / and that in a cytie well defenced. I whan I fled so hastely thought say­ynge / I am cast out of thy syght / but yet for all this thou herdest my desyre whan I tryed vnto the. Loue ye the lorde as many as are his sayntes / the lorde defendeth and kepeth his faythful / and rewardeth these proude doers plentuously. Be ye stronge and he shal stablysshe your hertes / as many as depende and truste v­pon the lorde.

BEati quorum. Blessed is he who­se vngodlynes is forgyuen / & who­se synnes are couered. Blessed is that man to whom the lorde rekeneth nat his [Page] synne / neither is there in his spirite any dissemblynge deceyte. Whiles nowe I helde my pease dayly musynge with my selfe / and other whiles cryed out / my bo­nes wasted for sorowe. For day & night thy hande pressed me downe / my moyster was dryed vp / lyke as one tosted in the middes of somer. Selah. I shall knowlege my synne and shall nat hyde my wy­kednes. I thought sayeng with my selfe I shall confesse my vngodlynesse whiche is agaynst me to the lorde / and thou euē straight forgauest me my wickednes whiche openeth her self by my outwarde synne. Selah. For the whiche / euen eue­ry saynte shall praye vnto the in tyme of besechynge / and than if afflyction come vpon him lyke a great swellynge floude / yet shall it nat touche him. Thou arte my defender from tribulation / thou shalt kepe me / and shalte make me gladde ex­cedyngly for my delyueraunce. Selah. I shall instructe the / and teche the / the waye wherin thou mayst go / I shall coū sell the / and se for the ryght well. Se that ye be nat as horse or mule whi­che ar vnresonable / whose chawes must be refrayned with bit & brydle / lest they stryue agaynst the. Many sorowes fall vpon the vngodly / but him that trusteth [Page] in the lorde / mercy closeth rounde about. Be glad therfore in the lorde / and reioyse ye rightwyse / make ye mery all faith­full and vpright in herte.

EXultate iusti. Be glad ye rightwise for the lordes sake / for praise beco­meth iust men. Magnifye ye the lord in prayse with harpe and lute / synge ye vnto him with ten stringed instrumentes. Synge ye vnto him a newe ditie / tune it swetely w ^t ioyfull melody. What soeuer the lorde hath institute / it is ryght / all his dedes procede of faythfulnes. He loueth to do all thinges ryghtwysly and in due ordre / therth swymmeth in the mer­cy of the lorde. By the cōmaundement of the lorde / heuens were made / and all their ornourment at his byddynge. He gathered togyther & included the waters of the see / as ye wold say / into a bot­tell / & layde vp their depnesses lyke trea­sure. Let all regyons therfore feare the [Page] lorde / let all y ^e inhabyt the rounde worlde drede him. For it is he / which so sone as he had spoke the worde / all thīges were presente / euery thynge standeth perfyte / euen as he cōmaunded. The lorde scate­reth the counseyls of the heythen / & ma­keth vayne the thoughtes of the people. But the counsell of the lorde stādeth for euer / the thoughtes of hys herte endure thorowe all worldes. Happy is that natyon which hath the lorde for their god / euen the people whom he chuseth to him self in y ^e place of his possessed herytage. From heuens the lorde loketh downe / & beholdeth narrowly all men. From his sure seate / beholdeth he all the inhaby­tours of y ^e erth. He made also the hertꝭ of all men / he vnderstandeth what soeuer they haue done. A kinge is nat saued bicause he hathe a great hoste / neither the valyaunte capitayne escapeth perylles thorowe his owne puissaunte power. That horse shall deceyue the / by whome thou lokest to be saued / he shall nat dely­uer y ^• be he neuer so strōge. But behold it is the lordes eye that is vpon thē whiche feare him / & depende vpon his mercy. That he might delyuer their soules frō deth / & nourysshe thē in tyme of hunger. Our soules might truste in the lorde / he [Page] is our helpe / & ī stede of a buckler. In hī shall our herte ioye / for we trust in his holy name. Thy mercy lyghtē vpon vs / oh lord / euen as we depēde & trust vpon the.

BEnedicam dn̄m. I shall praise and magnifye y ^e lorde at all tymes / his prayse shalbe in my mouth contynually. In the Lorde my soule shall glorye / the meke sprited shall here and be glad. Magnifye ye the Lorde withe me / and let vs extolle his name all to gyther. Busely sought I the lorde / & he answe­red me / he delyuerd me from all thinges that I feared. Men shall loke vnto hī / & shall make hast / & their faces shall nat be shamed. [Page] This poore afflycte persone / assoone as he called vpon hym / the lorde herde / and he preserued him frō all strayt anguyssh. Euen the angels pytch tentꝭ roūd about them that fear the lorde / & delyuer them. Taste / & beholde howe good is the lorde / happy is that man that trusteth in him. Worshyppe ye the lorde whiche are his sayntes / for his worshyppers shall neuer want. Stronge lyons shall fainte & fa­misshe for hunger / whan no good thyng shal fayle y ^e dilygent sekers of the lorde. Haue done children & here me / for I shal instructe you vnto goddes worshippe. Who soeuer thou art which desirest to lyue / & louest longe lyfe: to delyte in good­nesse. Kepe thy tonge from euyl report and thy mouth from disceytfull speche. Se thou do no man wronge / but bende thy selfe to goodnes / seke studyously and folowe vpō peace. The eyes of the lorde are fastened vpon the rigktwyse / hys ea­res lysten vnto their cryenge.

But the grīme coūtinance of the lorde is sette vpon these that do wronge / euen to cutte out their memoriall from therth. But those men crye & the lorde hereth / & he delyuereth them out of euery strainte. Full nyghe is the lorde men broken in herte / he saueth the contryte in spiryte. [Page] Although full many yuels fal vpon the rightwyse / yet the lorde delyuereth them from thē all. He kepeth all their bones so that nat one of them be broken. But euery trouble shall make an ende of the vngodly / & the haters of the rightwyse shalbe shaken awaye. The lorde shall loose & redeme the lyfe of his seruantes / neither shall they be distroied whosoeuer cōmitte their selues to his faithful cure.

IUdica dn̄e nocen. Lorde set agaīst my aduersaries / smyte downe them that fyght against me. Take anon vnto the / shelde & buckler / and ryse vp spedely to helpe me. Set oute thy spere / & come forth to mete my persuers / close them in & say thou vnto my foule / I am thi helth Let them be confoūded with shame and ignominy / that seke my soule / let thē be constrayned to tourne their backes / let them bere opprobry y ^t thīke me any yuel. Let thē be lyke dust before the wynde / & the angels of the lorde shakynge them to [Page] nought. Let their wayes be beset with derknesses & slybery / and thangell of the lorde persuyng thē. For they haue pre­pared their pytfall and their nette for me without cause / without cause also haue they reuyled and slaundred my soule. Let his iniuste vexatyon fall vpon hys own necke vnwares / let him be hampred in his owne nette which he hath hyd / let him fall into his owne mischef. But my soule mighte ioye in the lorde / & be glad of his helpe. All my inward partes shal say / lorde / who is lyke the? which dely­uerest the weake afflict frō his stronger / and the sely vexed from the thefe. There arose vyolent wytnesses / & asked me thynges whiche I neuer thought. They aequyted me euyll for good / leuīg my soule all alone without any helpe. I my selfe (whyles they were blame worthy) clothed me with sacke) & scourged my soule with fastinge / and gaue my self hole to prayer for them. I behaued my selfe to them / as though euery one of thē had ben my neighbour & myne owne brother / I went bente vnto y ^e groūde mournīge al ī blacke / as one y ^t had buryed his moder. But they (whiles I thus febled my selfe) reioysed / & were gathered to gy­ther / there came w ^t them the moste vylest [Page] abiectes to scorne me / whom I loked nothynge / for they rente my fame / & ceassed nat. Flaterynge parasytes all thynge derydīg / gnasted vpon me w ^t their tethes. Lorde how longe wylt thou se me thus entreted? restore my soule / from these perilous & sedicious men / delyuer my lyfe from these lyons. I shall magnifye the with prayse in the great cōgregation / a­monge the myghty people shall I prayse the. Let nat my false enemyes reioyse vpon me / let nat my haters wīke of eche other in to my deceyt without any cause. For they speke nothynge peasably / and agaīst y ^e meke sprited of therth they paint their coloured deceytes. They writhed their mouthes agaynste me / sayeng / fye / fye vpon hī / our eyes haue sene the thīge for which we longed. Ye / thou hast sene (lorde) ceasse thou / lorde / no lenger / be nat farre absent. Aryse / awake / for my defence in iugemēt / to affyrme my cause / my god and my lorde. Gyue sentence wyth me for thy ryghtwysnes sake / lor­de / my god / lest they reioyse vpon me. Let them nat saye amonge their selues fye vpon him / we haue our pleasure / let thē nat say we haue deuoured & conuicte him. Let them be shamed & also confoū ded togyther / that thus reioyse vpon my [Page] trouble / let thē be clothed w ^t shame & ignominye y ^t thus swell against me. Let thē be glad & reioyse y ^e fauour my ryghtwis­nes / & make thē to say / y ^e lord might euer be magnifyed / whom it hath thus plesed to set his seruāt at rest. And my tonge also shall speke of thy rightwisnes / day­ly shewynge forth thy prayse.

DIxit iniustus. The vngodlynes of the synfull man ꝑsuadeth me in my hert / y ^t there is in him no feare of god. For he standeth ī his own conceyte / whiles his worthy iniquite groweth īto his extreme hatred. What soeuer he speketh it is wyckednes & deceyte / he refuseth to be taught because he wolde nat do well. As he lyeth in his bedde he studieth and inuenteth myschefe / wherevpon he sette him selfe in to a waye nat good / and es­cheweth nothynge that yuell is.

Oh lord / euē vp vnto the heuēs strecheth [Page] thy goodnesse / ye / and vp to the cloudes recheth thy faithfulnesse. Thy ryght­wisenesse is higher than the highest hyl­les / thy iugementꝭ ar full depe & botōles lorde / thou sauest man and beest.

Howe excedyng / clere & noble (oh god) is thy mercy / how p̄cious also are they whiche cōmyt thē to thy faithfull cure / as vnto the shadowe of thy wynges.

They shalbe satisfied with the plētuous treasure of thy house / & thou shalte gyue thē drinke of thy delycious & plesāt flodꝭ For with the is the very well of lyfe / & we endued with thy lyght / shall se at the last the very lyght. Stretch thy mercy to them that knowe the / & thy rightwisenesse to the vpright in herte.

Let nat the prounde men fall vpon me / neyther lette the vngodly moue me. There shall fall the workers of iniquite they shalbe cast out / & may nowher abide

NOli emulari. Frete nat thy selfe with these cursed harmfull mē / neyther [Page] enuy angrely these workers of wic­kednes For euen lyke grasse anon shal they be cut downe / & lyke the grene fres­she ben [...]e of the floure shall they wyther away. But cleue thou to the lorde and study to do good / & thou shalt inhabite the lande / lede thy lyfe in good faithful­nesse. Thou shalte delyte in the lorde / for it is he that shal gyue the what so e­uer thy hert desyreth. What so euer thī ge thou takest in hāde committe the for­theraunce thereof to the lorde / truste in him and he shall brynge all thynges to good passe. He shall lede forth openly thy ryghtwysnes euen lyke the lyght / & thy ryght lyuynge shall he make to shyne lyke the myddaye. Suffre / be styll / and let the lorde worke / abyde his pleasure / be nat angry with hī that prosper in his way / which is the man that is gyuen to deceyte. Refrayne thy selfe from wrath let thy angre be blowen ouer / be nat mo­ued to reuenge. For who so euer ar harmefull and cursed shalbe cut awaye / but they that abyde the lordes pleasure shall inherite the lande. It shal nat be longe but the vngodly shalbe clene gone / thou shalt consyder his place / but he shall no where apere. Meke sprited with paciēt suffrers shall inherite the lande / and they [Page] shall haue pleasure w ^t moche prosperyte. And for this cause the vngodly shal ha­ue indignation at the rightwyse / & shall grynne vpon him with his tethe. But the lorde shall laugh him to scorne bicause he seith his daye of iugemēt at y ^e hande. The vngodly shall drawe out their swerdes / they shall bende their bo­wes to smyte downe the poore carefull afflycte / and to sley the right treders in the way. But their swerdes shall smyte thorowe their owne hertes / and their bowes shalbe broken. That lytell is better whiche the rightwyse mā hath / than the many folde riches of the gloriouse vngodly. For the strength of the vngodly shall be brokē: but the lorde susteyneth the rightwise. The lorde approueth the dayes of the parfyte faithfull / and their herytage shalbe parpetuall. In tyme of aduersyte they shall nat be shamed / in tyme of hun­ger they shall be well satisfyed.

Whan the vngodly shall perissh / and the enemys of y ^e lorde beyng in fatte pasture at their highest / than shall they vanisshe awaye lyke smoke. The vngodlye shall borowe & blowe to gyther other mennes goodes & neuer repay / but the rightwise shall do mercy & gyue forth gracyously. And they that do good to the rightwise [Page] shall inheryt the lande / and they that do euyl shalbe cutte away. For of the lorde the steppes of this man are dyrected / & he fauoreth all thengꝭ that he take in hāde. Whan he shall fall he shall nat be hurte / for the lorde putteth vnder his hande. Uerily I haue ben yonge and olde / and yet sawe I neuer the ryghtwyse forsa­ken / or his seede beggynge their breed. But dayly he doth mercy & lendeth / and his seede is in a blessed encrease. Eschewe euyll & do good / & thou shalte abyde for euer. For y ^e lorde loueth that y ^t is done rightly & in good order / neither forsaketh her his saintes / but they shalbe layd vp for euer / whan the seed of the vn­godly shalbe cut of. The rightwyse shall inheryt the lande / & shall dwell vpō it for euer. Wysedōe shall euer be in y ^e mouth of the rightwyse / and his tonge shall be occupyed ī that which god iugeth good. The lawe of his god is in his herte / the steppes of his fete they shall nat slyde. The vngodly beholdeth the rightwyse / and seketh occasyon to sleye hym. But the Lorde wyll natte leaue hym to his hande / neyther shall he repute hym vngodlye / all thoughe he be so iudged of the wicked. Abyde the lorde and ob­serue hys waye / and he shall exalte the [Page] to his heritage / whan thou shalt se the distruction of the vngodly. I se this stur­dy & fearfull vngodly rotyng & dilatynge himselfe / lyke a tree neuer remoued from his naturall fyrst soyle / freshly spredyng his branches. And anon he vanisshed away / & lo / he nowhere apered / I sought him but he was nat founde. Take good hede vpon the innocēt / & marke well him that seketh the right / for suche a man at the last shall enioye that plesant rest. But these synfull mē shalbe distroied all to gider / at y ^e last the vngodly shalbe cut a way. Helth shall come vnto the right­wise men frō the lorde / he is their strēgth in tyme of tribulation. The lorde for a suretie wyll helpe theym / & wyll delyuer them from the vngodly / and he wyll saue them bycause they haue trusted in hym.

DOmine ne. Banishe me nat (lorde) of indignacion / neither chasten me in thy wrathe. For thy arowes ar sore [Page] smytten into me / and the disease whiche thou haste caste vppon me / presseth me downe sore. There is no helth ī my fle­she for thy wrath / there is no reste in my bones for my synnes. For my synnes haue pressed downe my hed lyke an hea­uy burden / they are heuyer than I may beare. My old preuy sores festered w ^tin and nowe ar they broken forth / for myn owne folysshenes. I am depressed and sore broken / I walke in cōtynuall mournyng. For a foule botche occupieth all my thyghes / so that there is no helth in my fleshe. I am feble / and sore broken / I gnasted with my tethe for sorow of my hert. Lorde all my desyres ar before y ^• & my sorowfully syghes are nat vnkno­wen vnto the. My herte trēbleth & pa [...] teth for sorowe / my strength fayleth me and euen y ^e very syght of myn eyes ceasse f [...]om their offyce. My frendes and my felowes stode agaynst my wounde / and my nyghe kynnesfolke stode all a farre. In the meane seasō they that sought my soule made snares for me / and they that hunted for my faute spoke deceyt / whis­perynge to deceyue me contynually. But I / as it had ben one deffe / herde no­thynge at all / and as a domme man ope­ned nat ones my mouth. I was as one [Page] that herde nat / and as one that had nat a worde in his mouthe to answere for him selfe For the / lorde / do I abyde / thou shalt answere for me / lorde my god. For I sayd with my selfe / these men parauenture wyll reioyse vpon me / and as sone as my fote begīne to slyde / they shal ronne vpon me. For I am but an hal­tynge creple / redy euer to fall / my sorowe neuer goeth fro me. For I confesse my vngodlynes / I sorowe for my synnes. But in the meane season my enemyes lyue and wexe stronge / euen they whiche persue me falsly are encreased in power. Which acquite me euyll for good and ar agaīst me / because I sought studyously to profyt them. Forsake me nat / lorde / be nat ferre fro me / my god. Spede y ^• to helhe me / lorde / my sauynge helth.

[Page]DIxit custodiam. I thought w ^t my selfe sayeng / I shal so kepe my self that I wyll nat offende with my tonge. But that I wold be moseld for spekyng my aduersary beynge present. By the reson of longe sylence I was made so domme / that I might nat speke of any thyng were it neuer so good / but ī y ^e meane sea­son my sorowe freted / me inwardly. My herte brent within me lyke fyer / whiles I mused with my self / breakynge to no man my mynde. But at last I losed my tonge / and I brake forth in to these wordes. Sewe me / lorde I besech the / what myne ende shall be or what shall be the measure of my lyfe / let me knowe / I beseche the / howe shorte is my tyme. Lo / as for my dayes they ar but an hādfull / ye / they are nothynge to the / what sayd I? ye euery man / stande he neuer so faste is but vanite and nought. Selah. What is he? ye / euery man walketh lyke a shadowe / it is but vanite & nothīg what so euer mortal mē enforse. They heape togyther riches / but they knowe nat for whom they gather thē. And nowe / my lorde / wherfore do I tary? in y ^• verily my hope is layd vp. Wherfore delyuer thou me from all my synne / & set me nat forth for a laughyng stoke before y ^e wiked mā. [Page] I helde my pease / & opened nat ones my mouth / for thou madest me thus to do. Take awaye therfore thy plage / for thy strōge hāde hath almost made an ende of me. Surely whyles thou in chastening any man for his synne / doest but chyde him onely / anon thou consumest him. So that what so euer thyng is pleasant in him / anon it perissheth / as a mought eten cloth / what sayd I? verily euery mā is but vanyte & nothyng worth. Selah. Lorde / here my prayer / gyue eare vnto my cryenge / ceasse nat whyles I wepe / for I gyuen vnto the / am here but away faryng stranger / as were all my fathers. Spare me that I might brethe a lyttell before I ceasse & go oute of this worlde.

EXpectās expectaui. Whyles I abode / I taryed for the lorde / & he bo­wed downe his eare to me and herde my [Page] crienge. He led me out of the tough cley and muddy pitte / the water arisyng roūd about me / he set my fete vpon the stone / and gaue quycke spede to my steppes. And he put in to my mouth a newe sōge to praise therwith our god.

Which thynge many perceyue to be worshippe to the lorde / began also lyke wise to trust in him. Blessed is that mā that setteth the lorde before him for his hope / & hath no respecte to the proude men [...]le­uynge to vaine lyes (the truth forsaken) Many thinges hast thou done (lorde my god) thy noble dedes and depe counsels as cōcernynge vs / no man maye comprehende / no man maye shewe ne expresse them / neyther maye they be nombred. Thou delytedest neyther in sacrifyce nor in oblation / but hast opened my right ea­res to here the / neyther brente sacrifyce / nor yet any slayn beest hast thou desired. And than I sayd / lo / I myselfe am here presente / of me it is wrytten in the bokes of the lawe. It hath lyked me well to do thy wyll / my god / thy lawe is set faste w ^t in me in my very herte. I shall preache thy rightwysnes in the full cōgregation lo / I haue nat holden my mouth as thou (lorde) well knowest In no maner wise haue I hid thy rightwisnesse within me / [Page] but thy faithfulnesse & thy sauynge wyll haue I sprede. I haue nat cessed to shew forth thy mercy & thy trouthe / in the full congregation. Neither thou / lorde / also hast holdē thy gratyouse mercyes fro me thy gentyll fauour & thy trouth preserue me perpetually. For I was ouerwhel­med with innumerable troubles / my synnes combred me so / that I myght nat se thē all / they were farre mo thā the heeres of my heed / for the which thīge my herte fayled me. Let it please the / lorde / to delyuer me / lorde haste the to helpe me. Let them be confoūded that laye awayt for my lyfe to quench it / let thē be borne bacwarde with open shame & ignominye as many as studye to do me harme. Let them be destroyed bicause thei haue ben about to shame me / euen they whych sayde by me fyghe / fyghe / vpon me. But let them reioyse in the / who so euer seke the & loueth the helthe whiche thou bringest / let these men haue euer in their mouth / magnified & extolled be the lorde. I was in adflyction & pouertye / but the lorde loked to me / thou arte my helpe & my delyuerer / my god / y ^u shalte nat tary.

BEatus q ⁱ intelligit. Blessed is that man which vnderstandeth the very thīge / as cōcernynge the sycke man in ty­me of aduersyte / y ^e lorde shal delyuer hī. The lorde shall kepe him / he shall restore him to helth / he shall enioye prosperouse thinges vpon the erthe / for thou shalte nat leaue him to his enemyes pleasures. The lorde shall strēgthen him lyenge v­pon his sycke beed / thou shalte so bryng it to passe y ^t he shall change all his bed. I verily sayd / lorde / haue mercy vpō me heale my soule / for I am a sīner againste the. My enemyes spoke euyll vpon me sayenge / whan shall he ones dye / & whan shall his name perisshe? Whā any of thē came in to see me / he spoke vayne lyes / he gathered mischef to hīself in his hert and he goynge forth blowed it abrode. Also / all my haters whyspred togyther agaynst me / and thought euyll vpon me. Sayeng some greuouse synne hathe oc­cupyed this man / and this man thus ly­enge so sycke shall neuermore ryse. [Page] Ye my frende in whom I trusted / whom I receyued to my table supplanted me. But lorde / haue mercye vpon me / & re­store me / and I shall rewarde these men. In this thinge I knewe y ^t thou fauorest me / that my enemye reioyse the nat vpon me. And in that I am hole / thou shalte ones sustayne me / & set me before the for euer. Praysed be the lorde god of Isra­hell from worlde to worlde. Amen amē.

QUēadmodū desi. Euen as the cha­sed harte thirsteth / gapynge for the fressh water / so do my soule thirst & gape for god. My soule thirsteth for god / ye / for the lyuinge god / whan shall I ones come to se y ^e face of god? I lycked in my teares in stede of meate / day and nyght / whyles it was said vnto me dayly / where is thy god? All the heuynes of my mīde [Page] I powred forthe / as sone as I remēbred that I shulde lede vnto the house of god such a ioyfull multytude / praysynge and halowynge the fest day. Wherfore than arte thou so deiecte & so heuye / my soule / trust in god / for yet shall I magnifye hī / for the sauynge helpe whiche he gyueth me of his fauour. My god / my soule is deiecte in my selue / bicause I remembred the in the lande beyende Iordane / in the hylles of Hermon / & at the lytell hyll of Myzaar. One greuouse sorowe brīgeth in another / for thy water courses soun­dynge so ferfully / all thy flodes & stormꝭ fell vpon me. By daye / lorde / thou ga­uest me to enioye thy mercy / & by nyght thou madest me to synge & to praie to the lyuinge god. I sayd to god / thou art my rocke of stone / wherfore for gettest me? wherfore go I mourninge so sorowfully my aduersary oppressynge me?

Euen my very bones are cutte in sonder whyles they caste in to my teth this gre­uouse opprobry / sayenge dayly / where is thy god? Wherfore art thou so sorowfully deiecte / my soule / and so sore troubled in me? trust in god / for yet shall I magnifye him for his helpe / wherwith he shall make glad my face / and declare himselfe to be my god.

IUdica me deus. Gyue sentence for me (god) defende my cause from the vngodly folke / frome the deceytfull and wycked man delyuer me. For thou arte my god & my strēgth / wherfore hast thou put me away / wherfore go I thus mournynge / my enemy oppressynge me? Make thy lyght & thy faithfulnes to shyne vpon me / let these thingꝭ lede me vnto thy holy hyll / & let them lede me vnto thy tabernacles. That I might ones come to the altare of god / euen the god of gladnes & the author of my ioye / to prayse & magnify the with harpe / god / my god. Wherfore art thou deiecte / my soule / and thus troubled in me? trust in god / for yet wyll I magnifye him / for the helpe wherwith he hathe made gladde my face / and shewed himselfe to be my god.

[Page]DEus auribus. Oh god / we haue herde with oure eares / our fathers also tolde vs what heuēly workes thou hast done in their time before our dayes. Thou didest cast out with thy hande the gentyls from their seattes / & plantedest our fathers ī their place / thou dydest scurge that people & madest our fathers to encrease. For they chalenged nat nor possessed that lande by swerde / neither their owne power saued them / but it was thy right hande / thorowe thy power and fa­uour bycause thou louedest them. Thou thy selfe / oh god / arte my gouer­nour / which gyuest helth vnto Iacob. Thorowe the dyd we driue out our ene­myes / we armed withe thy name / trode them downe whiche rose agaynst vs. For I neither trusted to mi bow / nether yet my swerd saued me. But it was thou that kepest vs from our enemyes / & thou shamedest & confoūdest our hatefull per­suers. We loued god daily / & magnified thy name with perpetuall prayse. Selah But yet nowe y ^u hast repelled vs / & haste shamed vs / neither wilt thou go forth w ^t our host togither with vs in battayle. Thou madest vs to turne our backes to our aduersaries / & they whiche odyously persued vs / toke their proye vpon vs. [Page] Thou gauest vs in to their mouthes ly­ke a flock of shepe / thou scatredest vs a­mong the gentyls. Thou soldest thy pe­ple for nought / so that in this chaunge there arose no a vātage. Thou settedest vs vp to be a reuilyng stocke to our ney­bours / to be scorned & shamed of thē that dwelt aboute vs. Thou settedest vs vp for aiestynge stocke to the heythen / we were a cōmen iest amonge them / so that who so euer se vs / wagged their heddes at vs. All wayes is myne ignominy before myne eyes / & euen very shame made me to couer my face. Ye / & that for the reuylers / & chyders / and for my aduersa­ries so gredy vpon vengeaunce.

All this fell vpon vs / natwithstādinge yet do we nat forgette the / neither are we vnfaithfull vnto the in couenaunte. Our hert fled nat bacwarde / neither out steppes swarued from thy pathes. Thou haste dāpned vs in to the place of dragons / and hast ouerwhelmed vs with the shadowe of deth. If we had forgottē our god / & had stretched out our handes vnto any strange god. Wolde nat God / thynke ye / haue espyed it? for as moche as he knoweth euen the very secretes of the herte? For thy sake ar we slaine dayly / we are reputed as slaughter shepe. [Page] Awake / wherfore slepest (oh lorde) arise vp / wherfore forsakest vs for euer? Wherfore hydest thy face / hauynge no respecte to our afflyctyon and oppressyon? Oure soule is depressed to the grounde / our bely cleueth to y ^e erth. Arise & helpe vs / redeme & lose vs for thy m̄cies sake.

ERuctauit cor meum. My hert thynketh & resteth of a good thynge / my songe shalbe of a kyng / my tonge shall delyke the penne of a perfyte redy scribe. Thou arte y ^e most beautyfull of all mortall men / hauyng a marueylous grace in thy tonge / bycause that god hath ende­wed the with perpetuall benefytes. Oh most valyant knight / gyrde thy swerde vpon thy syde / by the whiche y ^• mayst declare thy glorious beautie.

Entre thou in happely with cleare wor­shyp / for that y ^u excellest in faythfulnes / mekenes / and rightwysnes / with these [Page] thinges shalt thou be endued / that thou maiste do noble actes with thy meruey­lous power. Thy arowes ar very shar­pe / they shall smyte the hertes of the kynges enemyes / the people shall fall vnder the. The s [...]ate regall / Oh lorde shall stāde for euer / for y ^e scrypture of thy kingdome loueth equyte. Thou art the lo­uer of rightwisnes and hater of vnright / bicause that god whiche is thy god / hath anoynted the with very oyle of gladnesse which art promoted aboue thy felowes. The playtes of all thy robes sauour of muste and aumber / as thou comest forth of thy white y uery palaces. Where the doughters of kynges in their precious & riche ornowrementes of thy gyfte make the glad / & thy quene on thy ryght hand also deckt in goldē aparell. Here doughter & gyue hede / bowe downe thy eare / & forget thy people and thy fathers house. And the kynge shalbe enamored of thy beaute / for he is thy lorde / to him shalt y ^u do reuerence. Tytus shall brīge the presentꝭ / euery ryche nacion shall honoure y ^• with gyftes. She shall sit nexte y ^e kyng in his priuye chāber all gloriously / her a­parel shalbe broyded w ^t golde. In clothe of tyssue she is p̄sented to the kynge / her handmaydens folowyng her ar brought [Page] togyther also vnto the. They ar p̄sented with ioye / & ar brought into the kynges palace. For the fathers / thou shalt ha­ue chyldren / whom y ^u shalt constitute to be chefe in all the erth. I shall remēbre thy name thorow out all y ^e worldes / wherfore the people shall magnifye y ^e for euer.

DEus noster re. God is for vs defē ce and strength / he is our most present helpe whā aduersyte thrust vs down Wherfor we shall nat feare although the erthe be moued frome her place / and the hylles compassed with the see al to shake Let the waters of the see swell and rore and breke vp her bankes / lette the hygh hylles be borne downe with her vyolen­ce. Selah. Let shall the lytle ryuers of the swete floude refresshe the cyte of god / whiche is the moste secretest holy place among the tabernacles of the most hyghest. God sytteh in the myddes of this holy place wherfore it shall natte be mo­ued / for god shall helpe it swyftly. The hethen flocked togither sediciously and anone the kyngdomes were moued / [Page] he lyfted vp his voice & than men shrāke away. The lorde of hostes standeth on our parte / the god of Iacob is our highe stronge towre. Selah. Come ye hyther and beholde the noble actes of the lorde / what wonderfull thīges he hath wrouȝt in therth. He taketh away batayle euyn vnto the farthest parte of therth / he bre­keth their bowes / he vnhedeth their spe­res / & brēneth their chariettes in y ^e fyre. Cease ye therfore & let me alone / se that ye knowe me for god / aboue all nations / and aboue all thynges in the erthe. The lorde of hostes standeth on our ꝑte the god of Iacob is to vs an high stron­ge towre. Selah.

OMnes gentes. All people clappe your handes for ioye / make ye melody to god with great tryumphe.

For high is the lorde & greatly to be feared / he is a riȝt gret kyng ouer all therth He subdueth y ^e people vnto vs / and the he [...]then he casteth vnder our fete.

He hath chosen vs for him selfe / he hath chosen our herytage / euen the beautie of [Page] Iacob whom he loueth. Selah. God is lyft vp with mirthe and melody / and with the sounde of trompettes. Synge ye to god synge / synge ye to our kynge / synge. For god is the kynge of all the erthe / synge ye who so euer excel­leth in wytte. God reygneth ouer the he [...] then / god sytteth in his holy seate regal. The best and chefe of the people / shalbe ioyned to the god of Abraham.

The comens also of the erth / shall ioyne them vnto god / for he is greatly exalted

MAgnus dominus. Great is y ^e lord and great prayse worthy / in the cy­tie of our god whiche is his holy hyll. The mount Sion is a goodly beautifull place makyng gladde all the lande / vpon whose north syde is bylded the cytie of y ^e noble kyng. God is well knowen in his palacꝭ to be a defēsfull castell for all his For lo / kynges cāe togither & passed for by. They se all this & were astoned / they were afrayde / & driuen ī to a sodayn flight. Ther they were amased / & feare toke them / euyn suche sorowe as taketh [Page] sodenly women greate with chylde. Thou brekest all togither the shyppes of the great see of Tharsys / with the vehe­ment tēpestes of the eest wynde. As we haue herde / euen so haue we sene in very dede / ī the cyte of y ^e lord of hostꝭ our god / god hath stablysshed it for euer. Selah. We haue cōceyued ī our mīde thy mercy which syttest gloriously in thy holy tēple As thy name is sprede / euē so wyde spredeth thy prayse / stretching vnto the far­thest partes of therth / what thyng so e­uer y ^u doest / it is rightwysnes. The hyll of Syon shalbe glad / the cyties of Iuda shal reioyse / for thy so gratious plesures Go ye about Syon & vewe it wel / tell ye her tourꝭ. Cōsyder her wallꝭ & loke how hyghe ar her palacꝭ / which shal be her memoriall into the generation y ^t foloweth. For here is god / ye our god īto eūlastīg it is he y ^t shal lede vs so lōg as we here lyue.

AUdite hee oēs. Here ye this thīg al people / listen vnto these thinges as many as lyue ī this worlde. As wel ye y ^t [Page] ar of the comē people as ye y ^t ar ī dignite as wel ye y ^t ar riche as they that ar pore. My mouth shall speke wysedom & the medytacyon of my hert shall shew ye the riȝt vnderstādīg. I shal applie myn eare vnto a parable / my harpe reighted vnto me I shal expoūd my rydle. Wherfore shuld I fere ī tyme of aduersyte / whā my shrewde wayt layers besege me rounde about. Which trust in their riches & ar magnifyed for their haboūdāt goodes. And yet no man be he neuer so hyghe in dignite may redeme his brother frō deth / no man pay to god the price of this redemption. It is w ^tout doute / no small pryce / their lyues to be losed & free from deth to lyue euer. To prolonge their lyues into euer lastynge / and neuer to se their graue. Surely they se both wise men dye / shrewde men & folysshe / they dye all a lyke / and they leue to other men their riches They thought ī their mynde their hous­holdes to abyde for euer with their habitacyons / they extolled theyr names in the erth. But man in his glystryng for­tune shall nat abyde / he shall be lyke the bestes whiche dye downe ryght.

This same their owne īuencyon is their very owne folysshnes / and yet their posterite gredily folowe their wayes. Selah. [Page] Lyke shepe shall they be caste in to their graues / deth shalbe their shepherde / the lyght ones spronge / ryghtwismen shall be their lordes / their beaute shall fade a­waye / hell shalbe their hospytall. But god shall lede backe my soule from hell / for he hath taken me vp to defende me. Selah. Feare thou nothinge whan thou seest a man made riche / & haue encresed greatly the gloriouse dygnitye of his house. For he shall nat beare all away with hī whan he dye / neyther shall dignitye his companyon go downe with him. For his soule shall haue her heuen here by lyfe / mē shall prayse the whyles thou settest forth and magnifyest thy selfe. These men shall folowe the natyon of their fathers / that is / they shall neuer se lyght. That man to whom happeneth prosperouse fortune and nat vnderstan­dynge / the gyuer thereof / shall be lyke a beest in his departynge.

DEus deorum. The mightye god & lorde shall make a crye / and call vnto him all that inhabyte the erthe / frome the east to the west. God shall set oute a lampe from Syon / whiche is his mooste goodly ornamente and beautye.

Our god shall come & shall nat tary / fyer shall brenne before him / roūde about him shall there be a vehement whyrlwinde. He shall call the heuens aboue / and the erth also / that he might delyuer his people in iugement. Gather ye togyther my sayntes / which stycke to my promyse before their owne dedes. And ye heuens shewe forth his mercy wherwith he ma­keth men rightwyse / for god / he is iuge. Selah. Here (my people) & I shall spe­ke / Israhell here thou / and I shall pro­myse the / that I am god / ye / and that I am euē thy god. I wyll nat reproue the for my suffrynge or omittynge thy sacri­fyces / neither wyl I loke for thy beaute sacrifyces. I wyll nat / neither nedeth it me to make frō thy house any oxe / either from thy folde any gotes. For all the wylde beestes of forestes are myne / the wylde beestes that fede in a thousād hylles also are myne. I chalenge for me all [Page] the soules in the hylles all y ^e lyue in the feldes ar myne. Yf I shall hūger I wyl nat tell the therof / whan the roūde worlde all about is myne / & what so euer is cōteyned therin. Thynkest thou that I wyll eat befe / and drinke gotes blode? Yf thou wylte gyue god a sacrifyce / gy­ue him his prayse and honour / and thus paye thy promyse to the most highest. As to call vpon me in tyme of tribula­tion / & I shall defende the / and thus shalt thou honour me. For vnto the vngodly man god sayd / wherfore pratest thou of my ceremonies / & bablest with thy mou­the of mye promyse. Whan thou hatest my disciplyne correctynge thy lyfe / and throwest awaye my wordes. Yf thou e­spyest any thefe / anon thou rōnest to hī / and couplest thy selfe with adulterers. Thou hast gyuen thy mouth to euyll / & thy tonge craftely paynteth disceytes. Thou syttest & spekest against thyn own brother / sclanderously and iniustly thou verest thyn owne mothers sonne. These thynges thou doest & yet I diffar my punisshmente / thou imaginest me to be but a nother man lyke vnto the / but I shall reason with the / & set fote to fote agaynst the. This thinge consyder / and knowe / I praye / ye that forget god / lest [Page] he plucke you by the sleue / & no man may rescu & help you. He y ^t sanctifyeth me w ^t praise honoreth me & to him y ^t goth y ^e riȝt way shall I gyue godly sauynge helth.

MIserere mei. Haue mercy vpō me / god / for thy gentylnes sake / for thy great mercyes sake / wype away my synnes. And yet agayn wassh me more fro my wickednes / & make me cleane fro my vngodlynes. For my greuouse syn­nes do I knowlege / & my vngodlynes is euer before myn eyes. Against y ^e / agaīst the onely haue I sīned / & that y ^t sore of­fendeth the haue I done / wherfore very iust shalt thou be knowē in thy wordes & pure / whan it shalbe iuged of the. Lo / I was facyoned in wickednes / & my moder conceyued me polluted w ^t sinne. But lo thou woldest trouth to occupye & rule in my inward partꝭ / y ^u shewedest me wisdom which y ^u woldest to syt in y ^e secretꝭ of my herte. [Page] Sprincle me with hysope and so shall I be clene / thou shalt washe me / and than shall I be whiter than snowe.

Poure vpon me ioye & gladnes / make my bones to reioyse whiche y ^u hast smit­ten. Turne thy face fro my synnes / and wype away all my wykednes. A pure herte create in me / oh lorde / & a stedfaste right spirite make a newe within me. Cast me nat away / and thy holy ghoste take nat fro me. Make me agayn to re­ioyse whyles y ^u bryngest me thy sauynge helth / and let thy chefe gouernynge free spirite strengthen & lede me. I shall in­structe cursed and shrewde mē in thy way and vngodly men shalbe cōuerted vnto y ^e Delyuer me from the synne of murther oh god / oh god my sauiour / & my tonge shall tryumphe vpō thy mercy wherwith thou makest me ryghtwyse. Lorde opē thou my lyppes / and than my mouthe shall shewe forth thy prayse. For as for sacrifyces thou delytest nat in thē / or els I had offred them / & as for brent sacrifyces thou regardest them nat.

Acceptable sacrifyces to god is a brokē spirite / a cōtrite and a deiected hert thou shalt nat dispise (oh god). Deale gently of thy fauorable beneuolence with Sion let the walles of Hierusalem be edifyed. [Page] Than shalte thou delyte in very sacrify­ces in the right brent sacrifyce / & in y ^e oblation of rightwisenesse: than shall they laye vpon thy altare the very oxen.

QUid gloriaris. Wherfore gloriest & auancest thy selfe of thy synne / oh y ^u mighty malicious man? y ^e mercy of god stādeth forth offred to euery mā at all ty­mes. Thy tonge is occupied in mischef thou dost deceyt euyn as a newe set raser Thou louest rather to hurte than to do good / to lye thā to speke y ^t y ^t right is. Selah Thou delitest to speke what soeuer bring vpon mischefe & murther / & to exercise thy tonge in deceyte. Wherfore god shall breke y ^e all to peces / he shall vtterly distroy the / he shal scrape the clene out of thy tabernacle / & thy rote from the erthe of this lyfe shall he drawe vp. Selah. This shall y ^e rightwismen se / & shall fere god / but this mā shall they laugh to scorne. Saying lo / the man whiche set nat god before him for his strength / but tru­sted in y ^e multytude of his riches & stren­thened him selfe with fraude & deceyte. [Page] But I abyde lyke a florisshinge olyue in the house of god / trustinge in y ^e mercy of god into worldes / & into worlde for euer. I shall magnify the euermore before thy sayntes / for thou haste done these thyn­ges / and I shall abyde thy pleasure / for it is full gentle and fauorable.

This .liii. Psal. is all one w ^t the .xiiii.

DIxit insipiēce. The noughty folish men thinke in their hertes y ^t god is nat. Shrewde & abhominable thinges for their wickednes do they / nowhere is there any that will do good. God loketh from heuen vpon the men / to see if there were any that knewe and regarded god. Are all togither so swerued fro me? are they thus lost? is there no man y ^t wyll do good? nat one? Ar all these workers of wickednes so far besydes thēself? se / they deuour my people as one shulde swalow in brede / they are holdē w ^t no fear of god. Wherfore they shalbe ther amased & astoned w ^t fere incōperable / for god hath sha­ken in sondre the bones of the besegers. Thou shalt dispyse them & set nought bi them / bicause that god hath repelled thē. O / wolde god that the sauynge helthe which cometh from Syon might happē vpon Israhell / that god wolde ones ma­ke an ende of y ^e captiuyte of his people / y ^t [Page] Iacob might be glad & Israhell miȝt reiose.

DEus in nomine tuo. Oh god / saue me for thy names sake / delyuer me by thy power. Oh god / here my prayer lysten to the wordes of my mouth. For strange men ar rysen agaynst me / & stronge tyrantes persue my soule / they haue nat god before their eyes. Selah. But lo / god helpeth me / the lorde is present with thē that sustayne my lyfe. He shalt acquyte euyll to my awayte layers / for thy trouthes sake thou shalt trede them downe. I shall with good wyll make a sacrifyce to that / I shal magnyfye thy name / o lorde for thou arte full gentle. For thou wylte delyuer me from all trouble / and myn eye shal se me pleasure vpon myn enemyes.

[Page]OH god / lysten vnto my prayer / & hy­de nat thy selfe fro my depe desyre. Gyue hede and answere me / I lament in my prayer / and I crye full loude. And that for the noyse of myne enemys and vexation of the wicked / for they take mysch [...]ues coūsell against me / & odiously do they persue me. My herte mourneth / sore troubled within me / & euyn the feare of deth falleth vpon me. Horrour & trē ­blyng fere assayled me / ye they ouerwhelmed me. And I thought / wolde god I had wynges lyke a doue / & than wolde I flye away to abyde sure somwhere. Lo / than wolde I flye farre hens / I wolde dwell in some wyldernesse. Selah. I wolde spede me to a voyde & to escape frō this blast / whiche tereth vp by y ^e rote and breaketh me so sore. Scater them lorde / & make their tonges to vary / for I se nothyng in the cyte but violēce & strife These thynges rōne about their walles day & night / within this cyte is ther wyckednesse & heuynesse. Within her ar ther crafty fraudes / vsury & deceyte go neuer out of her stretes. For nether was it my enemy that thus shamfully entreted me / or els I myght haue borne hym / neither was it one that openly hated me / y ^t thus dyd oppresse me / or els I coulde haue cō ­ueyed [Page] me frō him. But it was y ^u (oh mā) euyn myn owne felowe / my gyde / & my famylare. To whom it was swete for me to breke my minde & to vtter my secretes / we were cōuersaunte togyther euyn in the house of god. Let deth be broughte in vpon them / let them go to hell quicke: for mischef was in their conuentycles / & euen in the hertes of them. I shal call v­pon god / and the lorde shall preserue me. Euenynge & mornynge & myddaye shall I pray / & lyfte vp my voice & he shall here me. He shall redeme my soule from ba­tayle which is intended agaīst me / & shall grue me prayse / for very many shalbe w ^t me. God shall here & shall scourge them whose maiestie hath endured from the beginynge. Selah. For they change nat them self / nor yet feare they god.

He hath layde handes vpon my frendes he hath brokē promyse which he made w ^t them. Their mouthes are as softe as butter / and in their herte nourisshe they battayle: their wordes ar more smothe & plesante than oyle / and yet are the same wordes as harde & as sharpe as dartes. Cast thy carefull heuynes vpon y ^e lorde and he shall ease the: he shall nat suffre a rightwisman to slyde & to fall for euer. Uerily thou (god) shalte thruste downe [Page] these blodye & deceytfull men into their graues & tombes / all redy made for them they shall nat bringe their dayes to halfe their age / but I shall truste in the.

MIserexe mei. Haue mercy vpō me / oh god / for man hath almost deuoted me / with cōtynuall battayle he hath all to broken me. My dayly awayte lay­ers haue swalowed me vp / there ar ma­ny surely that fight agaynst me / oh right hygh god. But whan feare brought me into a straynte / I trusted in the.

I remembred the promyse of god withe prayse and trusted in god / wherfore I fe­red nat what so euer mortall man coulde do to me. What so euer I beganne they enuyed it daily / all their study was bente to do me a mischef / they were gathered togither and laide awayt for me / they obserued my fete / and gaped to catche my soule. By their shrewdnes they trusted theym selfe to escape all daunger / but it [Page] is god that throweth downe people. Thou canste well tell howe ofte I haue fled / and as for my teares thou hast put them vp into thy bottell / that is to saye / into thy boke. Whan I shall call vpon the / my enemyes shall go backe / by whi­che thynge I maye knowe that god standeth on my parte. With prayse shall I remembre the worde of god / with praise shall I remēbre the promyse of the lorde. In god shall I truste / and so shall I nat feare what so euer man maye do to me. I shal make my vowes vnto the / oh god / vnto the shall I gyue prayses.

For thou wylte delyuer my soule from deth / and my fete surely from slydynge / that I myghte walke before the in the lyuely lyght.

MIserere mei. Haue mercy vpō me / oh god / haue mercye vpon me / for my soule hath cōmitted her selfe vnto thi ꝓteccion / I crye vnder thy winges to be defended vntyll this vyolēt blast be ouerblowen. I shall call vpon the high god euē god which fynisheth all thīgꝭ for me. He shall sende down from heuen to saue [Page] me / and shall caste him in to opprobrye / that wolde spyll me. Selah.

He shall sende downe his mercy and his trouth. My soule is in the myddes of lyons / I dwell amonge men which are a fyer / whose teth are speares and arowes and their tonge is a sharpe swerde. Lyfte vp thy self / oh god / aboue heuēs lyfte vp thy glorioꝰ beaute aboue all the erthe. They layde a nette for my fete / this man depressed my soule / they dyg­ged vp a pytfal for me / & they theyr selues fell into it. Selah. My herte is well set o god / my herte is well set / I shall synge and prayse. My tonge be thou stered vp / stryke vp ye fydels & harpes / I shall sīge very erly. I shall magnifye the amonge the people / lorde / I shall loue the amōge the hethen. Thy mercy is so great that it recheth vp to the heuens / & thy trewe faithfulnesse lyfteth her self vp vnto the cloudes. Lyfte vp thy selfe / oh god / a­boue the heuens / and extolle thy beauti­full glorye aboue all the erth.

[Page]SI vere vtique iusti. Do ye pronoū ce truly (o counsell) that that right is? do ye iuge right amonge the mortall men? No verily / ye rather paynte and conceyue wyckednes in your mynde / and for equite your handes way violent wrō ges in the erth. These vngodly are re­probate persons euē from their mothers wombe / they are nowe strayed frome the right way / ye and that from theyr birth. They beare venome in them lyke a ser­pente / euen lyke the deffe Aspes / whan she stopped her eares. Because she wolde nat heare the voyce of the enchanters / or of the charmer that well can enchaunte. O god / distroye the tethe of the mouth of these men / euen the wange tethe of these lyons breke thou / oh lorde. Let them synke awaye lyke water / and lette them be a marke / vpon the which arowes sent out of a stronge bowe / are all to broken. Let them be dried vp lyke a snaile in her shell / and lyke a chylde borne before the tyme whiche neuer se sonne. Let them be taken away lyke a yong thorne before it be growen into a tree / before their myschefe be rype and sharpe take them away with thy sodayn īdignation. The right wyse shall reioyse whan he consydereth this vengeaunce / & shall wasshe his fete [Page] in the blode of y ^e vngodly. And thā the people shall saye / verily the fruite of the rightwismā abydeth him / for surely that is god iugynge in the erth.

ERipe me de inimi. Deliuer me frō myne enemies / my god / take me frō these that ryse agaynst me. Delyuer me from these men which ar all gyuen vnto mischef / saue me from these blodsheders. For lo / they laye awayte for my lyfe / there are come togither agaīst me strōge and boystous men / & yet / o lorde / no faute haue I made them. They rāne vpon me and ar nowe bent to distroye me gyltles / aryse to socour me & beholde. And thou lorde / god of hostes / the god of Israell awake that all nacions maye knowe the be thou nat mercyfull to all men that ar agaīst the / euē of a wiked purpos. Selah They rōne about here & there in y ^• night huntynge & yellynge lyke dogges for me ye / they seke all the corners of the cite for me. And they seke nothinge but deth / swerdes ar in their lyppes / for they sayd [Page] who shulde heare vs? But thou / lorde / shalte scorne them / thou shalte mocke all these heithen. Of the shall I tarye for helpe / which now helpest him / for god is to me a strōge castel. Oh my god / let thy mercyfull helpe ouertake me / o god / let me se my desyre fall vpō my wayt laiers Sley thē nat out of hande lest mi people forget this thinge / but disperse them to wādre among thy people / cast thē downe lorde / which arte our bokler. For the wickednes of their mouthꝭ / & their euyll speche let thē be trapped ī their own pryde / & for their periury & their lyes / let thē be a fable in euery mānes mouthe. Consume / thou kyndled into vengeaunce consume / that these men nowhere a­pere / and lette all men euen to the vtter­most partes of the erth / knowe that god is chefe gouerner in Iacob. Selah. They rōne here and there in the nyghte huntynge and yellynge lyke houndes / se­kynge rounde about the cyte for me. They their selues shal wandre about for their meate / and yet shall they be sure to rest at night with emptye belyes.

But I shall synge of thy strength giuen vnto me / erly shall I reioyse of thy mer­cye gyuen also / for that thou host bē my defence and my refuge in my trouble. [Page] Oh my strength / vnto the shall I synge / for god is my stronge castell / euen thou god / whiche wetest well safe to bestowe thy mercy vpon me.

DEus re. Oh god / y ^u hadest ones forsaken vs / y ^u hadest cast vs awaye / y ^u were angry / but yet hast thou offred thy self peased agayn vnto vs. Thou smit­test the erth togyther and all to breke it / heale her brekynges (we prayed the) for she was sore bowed down Thou madest thy people to feale full harde thynges / y ^u gauest vs poyson to drynke. But yet a­gayne thou lyftedest vp a baner for them that feared the / vnder which they shuldē optayne a prosperouse vyctorie / & this dydest thou for thy trouthꝭ sake. Selah. Wherfore thy welbeloued were made sure [Page] & safe / and nowe saue me also with thi right hāde & here me. God hath expres­sed his mynde by worde euyn from his secrete holy place / wherfore I shall reioyse I haue nowe deuided Sichem / and haue metout the valey of Succoth. Gilead is myne / and Manashed is myne / Ephraim is my stronge hed cyte / Iuda is my kyngdome. Moab is subiecte vnto me / euen as a caldren to wasshe in my fete. Aedom shalbe euen as a place to cast in my olde shois / Philistea knowlegeth and cryeth vnto me as to her kynge.

Who shall nede nowe to lede me into any stronge defensed cytie? or who shall nede to leade me vntyll I come into Aedom? Uerily euen thou / god / which somtyme hadest forsakē & cast vs awaye / and wol­dest nat go forth w ^t vs among our hoste. Helpe thou vs & delyuer vs frome oure enemies / for very vayne is y ^e helpe of mā We armed with Goddes helpe / shall do strongly / for it is he y ^t shall treade downe our troublers.

EXaudi deus. God here my out cry­ynge / lysten vnto my prayer. Unto the I crye with desyer of hert full [Page] of anguissh frō the extremest parte of the erth / leade me vp in a higher rocke than I of my self am able to clime. For thou arte my defence my stronge towre / by the which I am preserued from my enemy. I shall dwell in thy tabernacle for euer / I shall be sure vnder the secrete defence of thy wingꝭ. Selah. Uerily thou god) hast herde my desyres / thou haste gyuen thy heritage to the fearers of thy name. Thou shalt heape mo dayes to the kyn­ges age / and shalte drawe a longe hys yeres in to many generatyons.

He shall sytte before god for euer / decla­re thy mercye and trouthe with the whi­che thou wylte kepe him.

And so shall I prayse thy name wythe songes for euer / that I myght performe my dayly vowes.

NOnne deo subiecta. My soule ve­rily withe sylence loked vp to god / for from him cometh my helth.

It is he / verily that is my defender / my sauiour / he is also a castell for me / I shal nat sore slyde. Howe longe shall ye thus [...]aye awayte for whom ye lyst / ye all shal [Page] be slayne & shall be lyke a relynge mudde wall / against the whiche euery man ron­neth. Surely whom god exalteth / them they counsell to thrust downe / they couer that thynge whiche they shall neuer op­tayne / they blesse and speake fayre with their mouthes / and curse in their hertes. Selah. Loke vp vnto god (o my very styll soule) for vpon him dependeth my abydīg. He is verily my defender / my sa­uyour / he is also my stronge castell / lest I be moued and fall.

Of god dependeth my helthe and glorie / it is the power of god wherby I am de­fended and holpen.

Truste ye in him at all tymes / oh peo­ple / powre oute before him all the heuye cares of your herte / for it is god that is oure defender. Selah.

Surely / mortall men are noughte / men are but vanitye / if they were put to gy­ther in a payre of balaunce / they were lyghter than noughte.

Truste nat in ryches gotten with wron­ge and forse / lest ye mugger vp vnto you vanitye / and whan your riches encrease put nat to theym your herte.

Ones / and yet agayne god hath spoken / which two thyngꝭ I haue herde / that it is god / that hath the very strength. [Page] And that it is thou / lorde / whiche hast the very mercy / which gyuest vnto euery man after his dealynge.

DEus deꝰ meꝰ. God y ^u art my god / erly do I sygh for y ^e / my soule thri­steth for y ^e / my flesshe desyreth the in this thirsti & wyde wildrenes w ^tout any water Thus shall I behold the / as ī thy secrete holy place / y ^t I myght se thy power & thy glorioꝰ beaute. For thy mercy is more desyrous thā this same lyfe / with my lyppes shall I praise the. Thus shall I magnifye the thorowte all my lyfe / in the prayse of thy name shal I lyft vp my handes. Thou shalt satisfye my soule with fat delycious meat / wherevpon my lyp­pes shall ioye and my mouth shal prayse. As sone as I shal remembre my selfe v­pon my bed / I shall thynke vpon the / e­uen in the watches of the nyght.

For thou verily arte he that brīgeth me helpe / and I beynge sure in the shadowe of thy wynges / shall tryumphe ioyfully. My soule cleued v [...]to the / for thy ryght­hande [Page] sustayned me. These men that seke my lyfe to spyll it shall go downe in­to their graues. Men shall dryue them vpon the edge of their swerdes / they shal be hewen & cut into meat for foxes. But the kynge shall reioyse in god / and he shall glorye that swereth by him / for their mouthes shalbe stopped.

EXaudi deus orationē. God here my prayer: kepe my lyfe from my fear­full enemy. Hyde me from the shrewde counsell & harmfull company / which are all gyuē to mischef. Which whette their tonges lyke swerdes / and lyke as out of a bente bowe / they shote forthe bytter wordes for arowes. To smyte the īno­cent / they wyll smytte him sodenly / and wyll feare nothynge. They studied for a mischef / & talke amonge themself of sna­res to be preuily layed: sayeng / who shall espye them? They studyed what mischef they might do: & (euery mānes minde serched) they concluded faste thervpon. But god shall smyte them with a soden darte / thei shal receiue their dethꝭ woūde. [Page] Their owne tonges shal smyte them sel­ues / and who soeuer shall se them / shall avoyde sore astoned. All mortall mē shal se this thynge / & shall speke vpon the worke of god / & they shall knowe his dedes. The ryghtwyseman shall reioyse in the lorde / and shall commytte hym selfe to his cure / all rightwyse in herte shall re­ioyse gloriously.

TE decet himnus. Prayse abydeth the / oh god) in Syon / and men shal performe vnto the their vowes.

Unto the / which hearest prayer / all mortall men shall come. Iniquite preuayled agaīst vs / but it is thou y ^t purgest vs frō oure synnes. Blessed is he whome thou hast chosen / & whom thou haste taken to the / to dwell in thy house.

For he shall be satisfyed with the good thingꝭ of thy house & of thy holy temple. Of thy meruelouse rightwysnesse shalte thou graunte vs / oh god oure sauyour) wherefore they shall truste in the / al that inhabyt the farthest costes of the erthe / & of the longe see. Thou arte he which settest the hylles in theire strengthe / gyrte [Page] rounde aboute with power.

Whiche swageste and peaseste the feerse rorynge of the sees / & ceassest the noyse of their floudes / and the wood furye of y ^e hethen. They that are in the extremest partes of the erth / shall feare at thy wonderfull tokens / them that dwell at y ^e east and at the west thou shalt make glad. Thou hast vysyted the erth with rayne whan it was full drie / thou hast made it very riche and plentuouse / the ryuer of god floweth full of water / thou shalt ma­ke her wheate to encrease luckely / for so is it thy pleasure to endue it.

Laye playne her euyn vorowes / & moist theym temperatly withe swete showers / and blesse thou the spiringe of hir corne. Thou shalte leade the eare aboute with thy gentyll fauour / thy cloudes shall drope fatte plentuousnesse.

There shall fall droppes vpon the man­tions of the deserte / the hylles shall ioye couerde rounde aboute with plentuouse fruite. The playne feldes shall be coue­ted with flockes of shepe / and the valeys shall be fylled with corne / wherfore eue­ry man shall synge and make melody.

IUbilate. Make ye melody to god / as many as inhabyt the erthe. Gyue ye glorie vnto his name in syngīg gyue ye vnto him gloriouse prayse. Saye ye vnto god / oh / howe fearfull are thy dedes for thy wyde power / euen thy enemyes shall come crepynge & crouchīg vnto the. Unto the shall ꝓfesse homa­ge & worship / all that dwell vpon therth / they shall syng vnto the / they shall synge vnto thy name. Selah. Come hyther & se the workes of god / se his fearfull workes towarde men. He turneth y ^• sees in to drie lande / he maketh men to go tho­rowe the see drie shode / & there we reioy­sed of his power. He turneth the worlde by his power / his eyes loke vpon the heithen / these backslyders from his trouthe shall neuer be promoted. Selah.

O people / magnifye ye our god / prayse him with loude voyces. This is he that hath preserued the lyfe of our soule / and hath nat suffred our fete ones to slyde. Uerily god hath ꝓued vs / he hath tryed vs w ^t fyre / as men were wōt to try siluer. Thou broughtest vs in to a strayte / and charged our loynes with heuynesse. [Page] Thou laydest sore men vpon our heedes we were brought in to fyre & water / and thou leadest vs out agayne in to a place where we were well refresshed. I shall go to the lorde at all tymes / I shall paye vnto the my vowes. Whiche I promy­sed with my lyppes & made w ^t my mouth / whan I was in afflyction. I shall offre vnto the fatte sacrifyces with the ricke & sauour of motton / I shall brēne vnto the oxen & gotes. Selah. Come ye hyther as manye as feare god / and beare what thynges he hath done to my soule.

I called vpon him with my mouthe / and with my tonge I exalted him. If I had set my mynde vpon iniquite / thā god had nat herde me: but nowe god hath herde & gyuē hede vnto my prayer. Praised be god which hath nat repelled my prayer / nether hath he w ^tdrawē his mercy fro me

DEus misereatur. God mighte fa­uour and haue mercye vpon vs: he might lyghten vs w ^t his presence. Selah That thy waye might be knowen euery­where in the erth / and thy sauynge helth also vnto all nations. The peple might magnifye the (o god) ye / all peple might [Page] magnifye the. The heithen myght ioye and tryumphe / in that thou doest ryght vnto the people / & dyrectest the natyons vpon therth. Selah. The people might sprede thy name / oh god / ye all people mought magnifye the. The erthe also myght gyue agayne her encrese / and god whiche is our god myght do vs good. God mought blesse vs / and all that in­habit the erth / euen vnto the vttermoste partes therof mought feare him.

EXurgat deus. As sone as god ry­seth to helpe / his enemyes are dys­persed / they flee from him that hate him. He putteth them to flyghte lyke smoke / as waxe melteth agaynste the fyer / euen so wast the vngodly from the presens of god. But the ryghtwyse ioye and are glad before god they leape for ioye. Synge ye to god / synge to his name / lifte him vp rydynge vpon the ouermoste heuens / THE LORDE is his name / ioye ye before him. The father of y ^e fatherlesse / helper of widowes / euen god syttynge in the seate of his secrete holye place. Euen god which giueth chyldrē [Page] to the bareyne / and loseth men holden in feters / but the forsakers of hī shal dwell in y ^e wyde bareyne desert. Oh god / whā thou wenyst forth before thy people / and walkedest thorow the deserte. Selah. The erthe was al to shaken and moued / and the heuens droped at the presens of this god of Sinay / ye of god / euen the god of Israell. But / o god / thou scat­t [...]edest rayne in good tyme vpon the erth whiche thou chalengest be ryght herita­ge / and whan it fayled thou restoredest it agayne. That this flocke myght dwell there in / y ^u hast so prepared for the poore oh god. afflycte / that they enioye thy goodes The lorde hath brought it to passe that womē shulde bryng good tydynges / and syng the vyctory of riȝt gret powers Kynges cōpassed with gret hostes haue fledde / they haue fledde / & the weake people that sate at home deuyded the spoyle. Also if ye had ben as blacke as men syttynge amonge pottes / nowe shall ye be white / as though ye were couerd w ^t dou­ues fethers / which are as whyte as syl­uer / and her winges as yelowe as golde. Whan / for her sake the almyghty god broke downe the kynges / she was made as whyte as the hyll zalmon.

The hyll of god is fat / as is Bashā / it is [Page] an hyghe hyll / a fatte hyll lyke Bashan. Wherfore sette ye so out youre selues / ye hyghe hyllꝭ? this hill of god is a plesaūt habitacyon / for the lorde dwelleth in it perpetually. The horsemen and chari­ettes of god are thousande thousandes / ye many thousandes of Angels / the lor­de is in mydde monge them in his holy place. Thou hast lyfted vp thy selfe and hast take them whom thou wylt lede captiue / thou hast receyued some mē among as gyftes. And euen the forsakers of y ^t thou hast cōpelled to obaye the / for that in this place god wyl haue his seate whiche hath his beynge of him selfe. Praysed be the lord at all tymes / he miȝt encrese his benefytes vnto vs / the very same god which is our sauyour. Selah. God which is to vs both god & sauioure is the lorde hauynge his beynge of hym selfe / in whose handes ar dyuerse kyndꝭ of deth. Uerily god hath smittē the hed of his enemyes / euen the very crowne of the hedde of the synful man. The lorde sayd / I shall restore my welbeloued / euen as I dyd ones restore them from Bashan ye I shall brynge them agayne / as I dyd ones from the botome of the see. Wherfore thy fote shalbe red with blode and thy dogges tonges shalbe redde with [Page] the blode of thy enemyes / bothe w ^t theirs and with the bloude of the kynge. Thy beloued se / thy solemne goyngꝭ (o god / euen the goyngꝭ of my god / my kynge) syttīg nobly in his holy secrete place Singers go before / there folowe plaers at the orgayns / in the myddꝭ wente ther yonge maydēs playeng vpon tympanes In the congregations prayse ye god the lorde / euen ye whiche are of the seade of Israhell. There were of the lytell tribe of Beniamin certayne whiche bore rule the prynces of Iuda / their strength / the prynces of zabulon / the pryncꝭ of Naph­thalim. Thy god hath gyuen the thy strength: stablysshe (o god) that thinge which thou hast wrought for vs.

In the temple at Hierusalem / euen kyn­ges shall brynge the gyftes.

As thou sharply blamest the speare mē with thy myghty power amonge the ca­pitayns of the hoste / so makest thou thē to yelde and to become trybutaryes pay­enge their syluer. Caste downe the peo­ple whose delight is to haue batayle. There shall come of the moste nobleste from Egypte / & Inde shall stretche forth her handes swyftly vnto god. Ye kyngdomes of the erth synge ye to god / synge ye with prayse vnto the lorde. Selah. [Page] Whiche rydeth vpon the heuens / ye vpō the euerlastynge heuens / lo / he putteth forth his voyce / ye and that a voyce full of power. Gyue ye to god the prayse of strength / his cleare maiestie is vpon Is­rahell / his strength is in the clowdes. Thou art to be feared / o god / ī thy secret holy place / the god of Israhell / he shall gyue strength and power to the people.

Praysed be god.

SAluum me fac deꝰ. Saue me god / for waters are rysen so hyghe vpon me / that I am in peryll of my lyfe. I stycke fast ī the depe toughe claye ī the which I can nat cōtynue / I am brought into the depe floude and the violent stre­me carieth me awaye. I am wery of criynge / my throte is hoorse / my syghte is wasted with lokynge vp vnto my god. They y ^• odiously persue me fautlesse / are mo in nombre than the heares of my hed they haue preuayled which vndo me causles / & they whette their enymite vpō me they constrayne me to paye tho thynges [Page] whiche I neuer toke awaye. God / thou knowest if I haue done any thynge folysshely / it is nat vnknowen vnto the / if I haue offended. Oh lorde / the lorde of hostes / lette them nat be shamed for my sa­ke whiche depende on the / oh god of Is­rahel / lette them nat be confounded that seke the. For I / for thy sake haue bor­ne the opprobrye / shame and ignominye couerd my face. I was made a strāger to my bretherne / & an alyaunte to my mo­thers children. Euen the very loue that I bore to thy house ete me vp / the [...]probryes whiche the vngodly cast agaynste the brente me sore. I gyue me to we­pynge / my body do I scourge with fastīg and for thus doynge / I am reuyled. I clothed me ī heare and sacke for their sakes / and they iested vpō me.

They fabled vpon me that sat at the gates / and the dronken men in tauers ma­de songes vpon me. But I / lorde / ī the meane tyme made my praier vnto y ^e whā tyme was offred me / oh god / for thy in­fynite mercy & trouthe heare me / for the whiche thou were wonte to helpe.

Delyuer me from this tough claye / and suffre me nat to be drowned / lette me be delyuered frō these odious persuers / euē from these depe waters.

[Page]Let nat y ^e streme cary me away / neyther the depthe swalowe me in / nor the pytte shytte her mouth ouer me. Answere me / oh lorde) for full gentyll is thy mercye / loke vpon me after thy great humanite. And hyde nat thy face from thy seruāt / for I drawe an heuy crosse / spede the to here me. Ioyne the to my soule and re­deme it / lose me fro my enemyes. Thou knowest what approbri / what shame / and howe greate confusyon I bere / they that trouble me are in thy syght. Opprobrie hath broken my herte / I am scourged / I loked for one to ease me w ^t cōfortable wordꝭ / but ther was none / I loked vp for cōforters / but I foūde non. For meat / they gaue me gall / & whan I thirsted they gaue me to drīke vinagre. Let their own table be their trappe / and their owne frendes their snares. Let their eyes be blynded leste they see / and make their loynes euermore to slide. Powre forth thy wrath vpon them / and let thy heuy indignation take them. Let their houses be desolate / and lette there be no man to inhabyt their tabernacles. For they saye that they persecute him / whom thou woldest to be smytten / and they boste them selfe to chasten hym whom thou commaundest to wounde. [Page] Make that vnto these mē one wickednes be heaped vpon a nother / and let theym neuer be partakers of thy rightwisnesse. Let them be blotted oute of the boke of lyfe / & let them in no wise be written with the rightwyse. But me / oh god) for as moche as I am afflycte / pore & full of so­row / thou shalt delyuer with thy sauyng helpe. I shall prayse the name of god w ^t songe / I shall extoll him with solempne prayse. For this shall be more accept to the lorde / than oxe and calfe / whiche are armed with hornes and houfes.

Meke spryted men shall se these thynges and shall reioyse / the sekers of god shall se these and their hertes shall lyue. For the lorde heareth the pore / and mē layed in prison for his sake he hath nat dispised. Heuens & erth shall loue him / the sees also / & what so euer moueth ī thē For god shall saue Syon / and shall pre­serue the cyties of Iuda / there shall men dwell & possesse that lande be riȝt inherytaūce The posterite of his seruātes shal receyue it for their heritage / who so euer loue his name shal haue their seate therī.

DEus in adiutorium. Oh god spe­de the to delyuer me / oh lorde haste the to helpe me. Let them be confoun­ded with shame & opprobrye whiche laye awayte for my lyfe / lette them be turned bakewarde / and in open ignomynie whi­che delyte in my trouble. Lette them be put backe because they laboure to shame me / euen they whiche saye fyghe / fyghe vpon him. Let them ioye and reioyse in the / who so euer seke the / and they that loue to be holpē of y ^e / myght saye / god be alwaye extolled. I am a carefull poore afflycte / spede the vnto me / thou arte my helper and delyuerer / se thou tary nat.

IN te domine speraui. In the / lor­de / haue I trusted / suffre me nat at any tyme to be shamed.

Delyuer me for thy ryghtwysnes and take me vp / bowe downe thy eare vnto me / and saue me. Be thou vnto me a rocke of stonne / in the whiche I myghte kepe me and to the whyche I myght euer flee / hitherto haste thou taken charge of me [Page] to kepe me / for thou arte my stonne and my castel. My god delyuer me from the hande of the vngodly man / delyuer me from the fist of the mischeuous and vyo­lent man. For thou art he of whom I depende / lorde / lorde / thou arte the sa­me vnto whome I haue cleued sy then I was a chylde. Thou sustaynest me fro my mothers wombe / thou dreweste me oute of my mothers bely / my laude and prayse is vpon the contynually.

I am made a wondrynge stocke vnto many men / but thou arte my stronge de­fense. My mouthe shall be yet fulfylled with thy prayse / lette it dayly extoll thy cleare maiestie. Caste me nat awaye in myne olde age / forsake me nat whan my strength shall fayle me. For they spoke vpon me among them selue / & they whi­che lay awayte for my soule haue coūseyled in vayne. Sayeng / god hath forsa­ken him / folowe vpon him / and take him for ther is no man that wyll delyuer him God / be thou nat farre fro me / my god spede the to helpe me. Let them be shamed & perishe that ar agaynst my lyfe / let them be couered with opprobrie & confu­syon which take so gret payne to hyndre me. But I shall tary for thy helpe / and shall excede all men in thy prayse. [Page] My mouth shall dayly speke of thy rightwysnes and sauynge helth / for I knowe no ende of thy benefytes. I armed with the strēgth of the lorde hauīg his beyng of him selfe shall come: & remembre thy rightwysnes onely. Oh god / thou haste taught me euen of a chylde / & vnto thys tyme do I publyshe thy meruelous noble actes. Ye verily / thou shalt nat forsake me euen vnto mi old age and hore heares oh god / whiles I shewe forth thy mighty power vnto this present generation / and thy strēgth vnto all the posterite to come And whyles I extoll thy ryghtwysnes oh god / which hast done so great thyngꝭ o god / who maye be compared vnto the? Which hast made me to fele many & gre­uous adflictions / and thou peased again shalt quicken me / & shalt bryng me agayn euen from the depest of the erthe. Thou shalt encrese my dignyte / for thou pleased agayne shalte conforte me. And I shall magnifye the / I shall spre­de thy true faythfulnesse / my god / with musyke instrumentes / I shall synge vn­to the with harpe whiche makest holy Israhell. My lyppꝭ shall triumphe for ioye and my soule also whiche thou hast rede­med / for I shall synge vnto the. Also my tonge shall speke continually [Page] of thy rightwysnes / for they shall be sha­med / and in opprobrie which toke so gret payne to hurte me.

DEus iudicium. Oh god / gyue thy authorte in iugement vnto the kynge / gyue the kinges sonne thexecucion of thy iustyce. He shall haue to do with the people of his rightwysnes / and shall de­le euenly with thy poore afflycte. Mountaynes shall bringe peace vnto the people: & y ^e hilles shal bringe thexecucion of rightwisnes. He shall delyuer in iugemente the poore afflycte people / he shall kepe the nedyons / he shall smyte downe the vniuste vexers of men. Men shall worshyppe the / as longe as the sonne & mone shall shyne in to euery age.

He shall come down lyke small rayne in to a newe mowen medowe / & lyke rayne which sokingly maketh moist the erth. Rightwismen shall florisshe whyles he raigneth / & there shalbe moche peace en­durynge as longe as the moone.

He shall haue dominyon from the one se to the tother / and from the east floude vnto the worldes ende. Before him shall [Page] fall downe the dwellers of the deserte / & his enemys shall lye ꝓstrate lyckinge the dust. The kynges of Tharsis & of the yeldes shall gyue him gyftes / the kinges of Sheba & Sebashall offre vnto him ho­nourably. All kynges shall do homage vnto him: all nacyons shall serue him. For he shall delyuer y ^e pore that cryeth vnto hī / & the man in heuynesse without helpe. He shall haue pytie and mercy on the poore nedyons / and he shall kepe the soules of them that are in afflyction. He shall redeme their lyues from fraude and vyolence / and precyouse shall their blode be in his syght. He shall lyue and shall haue giuen him of the golde of Sheba / men shall blesse him all tymes & shall sprede his fame. And the erth shalbe so fruitefull that of an handfull of wheate there shall aryse suche plentie in the hylles / that it shall waue with the wynde lyke the thicke highe trees of Lybani / and shall growe forth before the cyte as thic­ke as grasse. His name shalbe euer spo­ken vpon whyles the sonne shall endure and shall go from one generation into a nother / thorowe hym shall all natyons be blessed & shall extolle him with praise. Praysed be the lorde god / god of Israell which alone doth meruelouse thinges. [Page] Praysed be his gloriouse name / euery lande be fusfilled with his beautifull glorye. AMEN. AMEN.

QUam bonus deꝰ. Right good surely is god vnto Israhell / euen to those men which are pure in herte.

But my fete were almoste gone / my fo­tynge had almost fayled me. For that y ^e good fortune of the folysshe wicked men set me so a fyer / whan I se such prosperyte of the vngodly. For they are neither cōbred ne constrained to deth / but thei ar well lykynge / they thriue / and ar lusty. They are nat oppressed with heuynesse lyke other men / they knowe nat the so­rowe and care that other men abyde. Wherfore pryde hath closed them roūde aboute / & they are clothed with vyolence as with garmentes. They are so full of felycite and welth that they swelle / they sette forthe them selues in the imagyna­tyons of their owne hertes.

[Page]They thynke to be holden and brideled with no lawes: they booste their mische­uouse vexation / they speke from a lofte. They haue lyfted vp their mouthes into heuē / their tōges walked all ouer therth. They called their peple vnto y ^e same study / & made them to drynke of y ^e same full cuppe. Wherfore the peple was moued to saye within theym / howe myght god knowe these thynges? what knowlege maye there be in god aboue?

Se / saith they / these are vngodlye men / and yet are they blessed in thys worlde / and swymme in plentuouse ryches. Uerily as for my selfe / I trowe I haue kepte my herte pure / and haue studyed to haue handes wasshen withe innocentes / clene from wickednes / but all in vayne. For I haue ben scourged daily / & I suf­fred my chastisynge euery mornynge / ye / and that erly. But if I shall thus iuge and speake of these thynges / I shulde be iniuriouse vnto the natyon of thy chldrē. I mused and studyed fore to know these thingꝭ / but it was laborious & hard to se it. Untyll I was brought into the se­crete holy places of god / and was taught to make the ende of these men. Surely thou haste set theym in a slybery place / euen to cast them downe / and to be [Page] vtterly distroied. Oh / howe sodenly wer they cast downe / & made an ende of / they were distroyed with sodayne mischef. They were but as a dreame of a man sodenly / awake / oh lorde / euyn their imagꝭ & pictures hast thou made spitfull in the cytie. Surely my herte bleded in bytternes / and my inward partes were stinged and as pricked w ^t nedles. I was a sotte & perceyued nothynge at all / I was lyke a brute beest before the. And yet / nat w ^t ­standyng / was I alwayes with the / thou heldest my right hande fast in the hande. Thou ledest me at thy pleasure / & afterwarde tokest me vp & helpedest me glori­ously. Whom therfore in heuen / whom in erth shuld I honour & worshyp but y ^•? My flesshe and my herte longe sore for y ^• oh the very strength of my herte / god is my porcion for euer. For lo / they that absente thē selfe longe from the / shal pe­risshe / y ^u wilt distroie as many as forsake the. But I thought it good for me to cleue to god / I sette the lorde before me for my defense to thentent I wolde shewe forth thy workes.

QUare deus repulisti. Lo / wherfore (o god) hast thou put vs awaye frō the so longe? wherfore is thy wrath thus sore kīdlid agīst the flocke of thi pasture? Remembre thy congregatyon whō thou hast chosen to the frō the begīning / euen the metyarde of thy herytagel whō thou hast redemed / thys same thy hyll of Siō in the which thou were wonte to dwell. Lyfte vp thy selfe / and come to distroye for euer all enemys / which haue brought all myschefe vnto thy holye temple. Thy aduersaries haue rored in the myd­des of thy Synagogꝭ / they haue set vp their baners in token of the vyctorye. Lyke as in tyme paste full exellent & no­ble was the workes & dilygence of them which cut downe with axes great trees / to the buyldynge of the temple. Euyn so nowe are therof lyke dilygēce & labour / to distroye & to breke the carued images in it with twybyll & hammers. They haue brente it in the fyer / & thus they throwīg downe the house of thi na­me into therth / haue prophaned & pollu­ted it. They thought in their mīde say­enge / let vs also slaye them all to gyther [Page] and they haue brente vp all the sinagogꝭ of god in the erth. We se nat the tokens and myracles whiche god was wonte to shewe for vs / there is no prophet left vs / there is no man with vs which haue any knowlege / but howe longe shall this en­dure? What ende / oh god / shall thy ad­uersarie haue that thus shamfully reuy­leth the? what shall become of this sclanderouse enemye / whiche thus vngodlye blasphemeth thy name?

Wherfore haste thou plucked backe thy hande? holde nat thy righte hande thus styll in thy bosome. Uerily thou arte god which hast hytherto ben my gouer­noure / thou arte euyn he that bryngest helth into the myddes of the erth. Thou verily thorowe thy power trou­blest the see / thou breakest the heedes of the dragons in the waters.

Thou knockest togyther the heedes of the greate whales / and gyueste them for meate to the people of the deserte. Thou breakeste vp the sprynges / thou makest drye the floudes.

The daye is thyne / the nyghte also be­longeth to the / thou haste ordeyned the lyght and the sonne.

Thou hast ordeyned & sette all the costes of the rounde worlde / somer and wynter [Page] thou hast made them. Yet se thou for­getest nat this one thynge / that this enemye thus blaphemously reuyleth the lorde / & that this wyked folysshe folke thus greuously hurte thy name. Let not the lyfe of thy turtle douue come into the cō ­panye of these aduersaryes / the company of the pore afflicte forget nat for euer. Loke vpon thy ꝓmyse / for among these blynde wretches of the erth all are full of vyolence & trouble. Turne nat awaye from the / these pore lowelyous w ^t shame but rather cause these pore afflycte nedi­ons to prayse thy name. Aryse god & gyue sentence agaynste thy aduersaryes remēbre howe blasphemously they reuyled the / and how chorlysshly these wicked men deale with the dayly. Forget nat the proude wordes of thy aduersaryes / lette the hyghe swellynges of them that resyst the / clyme vp styll into their owne confusyon.

[Page]COnfitebimur tibi. We thanke the / god / we thanke the / for nyghe is thy gloryous power / those men that call vpon the / & they shal remēbre thy merue­lous dedes. For I shal take vp vnto me my cōgregation / & shal execut true iustice The erth & the dwellers ther vpon begā to slyde away / & I haue vnderset it. Sel. I spake to these made foles / sayeng / se y ^t ye be nat besydꝭ your wyttꝭ / I sayd also vnto these vngodly / se that ye extolle nat your power. Lyfte nat vp your hornes to highe / neither speke ye proudneckedly For this lyftinge vp cometh neither frō the eest nor the weest / neither yet frō the sowthe hylles of the deserte. But it is god verily the myghtye iuge / he casteth downe one man and lyfteth vp another. For there is a cup full of troubled wyne in the hande of the lorde / out of whiche he powreth to be dronke of / whose verye dregges shall be supped of / for all the vngodly of the erth shall drynke therof. But I / in the meane season shall shewe forth contynually his glorie: and prayse my god / euyn the very god of Iacob. And shall also plucke vp by the rotes the hornes of these vngodly: but the power of the rightwyse shall be styll exalted.

NOtus in iudea. God is honorably knowen in the lande of Iudah / and his cleare fame is nobly sprede thorowe the lande of Israell. His tabernacle is set vp in Ierusalem / and his mansion in Syon. There he broke into peses both [...]owe & arowes bukler & swerde ī batayle Selah. Thou arte passynge clere and noble / worthy to be magnyfyed aboue y ^e kyngdomes full of thefte and robery. They are depriued of their stronge herte their slomber hath ouergone them / their handes are benōmed / although they were men valyaunte in batayle.

For thorowe thy fearfull thretenynge rebuke / o god of Iacob / their horse and cartes went all to hauoke.

Thou arte to be feared in dede / for who maye stande before the / especyally whan thy angre wa [...]e hote. Euen from he­uen thou causest thy fearfull iugement to be herde / the erth feared and durste nat ones quitche. Whan god shulde ryse in to iugement / to saue all the meke spri­ted of the erth. Selah.

[Page]For mennes īdignation occasyoned thy glory / euen whiles y ^u brydeledest the reste of thy fury. Make your vowes and performe them to the lorde your god / for he is in the myddes amonge you.

Offre your gyftes to him so gretly to be feared / whiche taketh breath euen from princes / it is he that is to be feared of the kynges of the erth.

UOce mea ad dominum. Wyth my voyce to god / with my voyce to god I cryed loude / and he lystened to me. In the tyme of my trybulation / lorde / I sought the / my sore ranne all nyght and ceassed nat / my soule refused all conforte I remembred god / and I gnasted and grated my tethe togyther for angre / I spoke and my spryte was sore vexed be­ynge full of anguyshe. Selah.

Thou heldest myn eyes from slepe all the kyght longe and I was so tormented in mynde that my slepe fayled me.

I called to mynde my dayes paste / euen the yeres of my sore age.

[Page]I remembred my mery night songes / I spake in my herte / and my spirite serched the cause of this heuye iugemente.

Sayenge / shall the lorde than caste me a waye for euer? shall he neuer call me a­gayne into his fauour? Is his goodnes than thus taken awaye for euer? is hys counfortable promyse thus ended for all ages? Hath god than forgotten to ha­ue mercy? or wyll he shutte vp his mercy in his angre? Selah. And I thought this is but myn owne weake abydynge / vntyll the most highest declare his right hande as he is wonte to do. Wherfore I wyll call to mynde the workꝭ of the lorde and I wyll holde in remēbrance thy meruelouse noble actes / whyche thou haste wrought of olde tyme. I shall thinke v­pon all thy workes / and talke vpon thy wonderfull dedes contynually.

Oh / howe wonderfull are thy wayes (oh god) whiche dwellest in the secrete holye place? who is so mightye & so greate as is god? Thou art god which hast wroȝt meruelouse thinges / and haste declared thy mightie power amonge the people. Thou hast redemed and losed thy people with stronge power / euyn the sōne of Iacob & Ioseph. Selah. The waters som­tyme sawe y ^e / oh god) y ^e waters sawe the / [Page] and they trembled / euen the depe botom­lesse see was all to troubled. The blacke cloudes sent downe rayne / it thundred in the ayre / & hayle stones came downe lyke arowes. Great thunder clappes were herde rounde about them / fearfull lyght­nynges smytte the grounde / therth qua­ked & trembled. Thy wayes lay thorow the see / and thy pathes in mighty waters and yet no man shall knowe the printes of thy fete. Thou ledest thy people lyke a flocke of shepe / by the handes of Moyses and Aharon.

ATtendite popule meus. Take hede my peple vnto my lawe / bowe dow­ne your eares vnto y ^e wordꝭ of my mouth I wyll open my mouth into parables / & I shall speke olde derke sentēces of gra­uite. Euyn those thīges which we haue herde / & knowen our fathers to haue told vs. There was nothing hid from their chyldren that succeded them / for euer one tolde a nother the lordes prayses / & put eche other in remēbrance of his stronge [Page] power and meruelouse thīges whiche he wrought. He gaue this cōmaūdement vnto Iacob / & put this lawe vnto Israel whan he cōmaunded the fathers to declare these thynges to their chyldren.

That their posterite might knowe these thinges / & their chyldren whan they are waxē / might shewe the same to their chyldren also. And so to put their confydēce & trust in god / & nat to forget the workes of god but to obserue his cōmaūdemētes And nat to be lyke their fathers whiche were a frowarde nation & fallynge out of kynde / a nacyon that dyrected nat their hertes / and their spirytes cōmytted nat their selues stedfastly to god. The sōnes of Ephraym well armed and good ar­chers / turned their backes in battayle. They kepte nat touch w ^t god / they wolde nat lyue after his lawe. They forgot his workes / & his noble actes whiche he dyd for their sakes. For he dyd wonderfull thingꝭ in the lāde of Egypte / in the felde of Tanys / their fathers beynge present. He deuyded the see and led them thorow he made the waters to rōne togyther stā dynge vp lyke walles of their ech syde. He led thē forthe by daye vnder a cloude and euery night with cleare lyght.

He cutte in sondre the rocke of stonne in [Page] the deserte / and gaue thē drinke out ther­of lyke as out of a great depe water. He led ryuers forth of the stonne & made the waters to ronne lyke swete floudes. And yet for all this they synned agaynst him / & angred the most highest in the wildernes. They tempted god in their her­tes / whā they asked meat to saue their lyues. And they spoke against god sayēg may god spreade vs a table here in the deserte? He smytte the stonne & there flo­wed out waters plētuously / but whether maye he lykwyse / said they / gyue vs also brede / and prepare flesshe for his people? Wherfore the lorde whan he herde these thinges was angry / and fyer was kynd­led agaynst Iacob / & his wrath was bēte agaīst Israhell. And that bycause they beleued nat god / neither trusted they to his helpe. And yet he cōmaūded y ^e clou­des oboue / & openyd the dores of heuen. And powred thē downe MAN to ete he gaue thē heuenly fode. So y ^t man ete stronge & substācyally meat that cam frō the cloudꝭ / he let thē haue meat euē their belifull. He turned about the east wīde in the heuēs / & by his power brought in the south wynde. And rayned downe v­pon them flesshe / as thicke as duste / and fethered foules lyke the sandes of the se. [Page] And they fel down īto the middꝭ of their tentes / & round about their tabernacles. And they eate / & were well fylled / for he satisfied their appetites. They were nat disapoynted of their luste / and yet their meate was no soner in theire mouthes / than the wrath of god fell vpon them. And slewe the chefe of theym: euyn the most stoutest of Israell he threw downe. But yet aboue al this they sīned against him / for they beleued nat his meruelouse dedes. Wherfore their dayes were con­sumed myserably and swyftly / and their [...]ares passed ouer in perpetuall trouble. Whan he distroyed thē / than they sought him / they turned & besought god busely. Whan they called to mynde / the god is their defender: and that the high god is their redemer. But they flatered him w ^t their mouthes / & lyed vnto him w ^t their tonges. Their herte was nat right to­warde him / nether kepte they touch with him in promyse. But yet he (natwithstā dynge) full mercyfully forgaue thē their wickednesse / he dyd nat distroye them / he peased his great wrath & caste nat forthe all his indignatyon. He consydred that they were but flesshe / a pufte of fleynge wynde whiche cometh nat agayne.

Often tymes prouoked they hī to angre [Page] in the deserte / & agreued him sore in the wyldernes. Agayne / they tempted god and casteth awaye him that maketh holy Israell. They forgot his strōge hande and the daye in the whiche he delyuered them from the troublouse oppressours. They forgote his myracles also / which he wrought in Aegypte / & his wonderful tokens which he shewed in y ^e felde of Tanis. Whan he turned their pondes & dy­ches into blode / & their ryuers also that they shulde nat drinke. He sent amonge them swarmes of flyes which deuoured them / and frogges to dystroye them. And he gaue the profyte of their grasse and corne to be eaten vp of wormes / and thei [...] labours to hote flyes. He beate downe their vynes with hayle stones / & their fygge trees were froste byten.

He distroyed their cattell with hayle stones / and smitte downe their beestes with lyghtenyngꝭ. He sente into amonge thē the heuy indygnatyō of his hote wrath / the consumyng vengeance of his fearfull yre / anguyssh & vyolent wodnes by noy­ouse spirites. He hedged in the waye of his wrath / he spared nat their lyues frō deth but betoke them to pestilence.

He smytte euery fyrst begotten in Egipt and what so euer they had most leyfe and [Page] deare in the tabernacles of Cham.

And ledde forth his people lyke a flocke of shepe / and droue theym forthe lyke an herde of nere into the wyldernesse.

He led them forth so surely that they ne­ded nothinge to haue feared / for he ouerwhelmed their enemyes with the waters of the see. And he brought them to his holye place / euyn to the hyll whiche he chalenged with his right hande.

He casted out therof the gentyles before their faces / and lymited vnto them their heritage / and made the trybes of Isra­hell to dwell in their tabernacles.

Natwithstandynge / yet they tēpted and prouoked the high god and kept nat his testymonies. They turned their selues from him / and delte vnfaithfully against him euyn as dyd their fathers / they were writhen backe lyke a bowe.

They angred god with their worshippe in highe places / and kyndled his wrathe with their Idols. God herde them and was sore amoued / & greuously he reiected and reproued Israhell. He forsoke his habitacyon in Shilo / euen the taberna­cle in the which he dwelled amonge men. He suffred his gloriouse mighty seate to be taken / and his beautefull house to be brought īto the handꝭ of his aduersares▪ [Page] He betoke hys people all togyther in to the swerde / his yre brente so sore against his heritake. Fyre deuoured their yōg chyldren / & their vyrgyns loste the floure of their ma [...]yages.

Their sacryfyces were smytten downe with swerde / and their wyues had no layser to mourne lyke wydowes.

And the Lorde awaked / as thoughe he had slepte / and sterte vp with great noyse from slombre / as a man that had surfet­ted with wyne. And smitte his enemis in the nether afterpartes / and made them to be into perpetuall opprobrye.

Natwithstandynge all this / yet he refu­sed & reiected the tabernacles of Ioseph / and the trybe of Ephraym he wolde nat chuse. But he chose the trybe of Iuda / euyn the hyll of Syon his owne welbe­loued. And he buylded thervppon hys temple lyke highe palaces / and layed the foundation as fast as the erth to abyde a longe space. And he chose his seruaunt Dauid / and toke him frome the shipkote. He led him frō the folowing of his shepe to fede his people / euen Israell his owne heritage. And he shal gouerne and fede them purely with faythfull herte / & shall [...]etche them forth driuynge them wysely.

DDus venerunt gentes. The hethen / oh god) are come into thyne hery­tage / they haue polluted thy holy temple and haue brought Hierusalem in to an heape of stones. They haue giuen the carcases of thy seruauntes meate to the foules of the ayre / and the flesshe of thy sayntes to the beestes of the erthe.

They haue shed their bloude lyke water round about Hierusalem / and there was none that wolde burye theym. We are made an approbrie to oure neyghbours / scorne & derision to them that dwell roūd about vs. Howe longe lorde? wilt thou be angrye euer? shall thy indygnatyon brenne styll lyke fyer? Powre out thy wrath vpon these hethen which wyll nat knowlege the / and also vpon these real­mes that call nat vpon thy name.

For Iacob they haue deuoured / & haue lefte his habytatyon desolate.

Remēbre nat our olde iniquytes / let thy mercyable gentylnes preuente vs shortly for we are greuously oppressed and made full poore. Be present with vs / god / saue vs for thy gloriouse name & delyuer vs / [Page] pardon our sinnes for thy names sake. Lest at any tyme these hethē shulde saye where is their god? Let the vengean­ce of the blodshed of thy seruātes / declare the amonge these heithen / in our syght. Let the sorowfull syghes of thē that are in bondes come into thy presens / and for thy great power / make them alyue whi­che are nowe iuged to deth. And turne vnto oure neyghbours plentuously their opprobry into their owne bosomes / with the which they haue reuiled the so approbriously (oh lorde. Make vs whiche are thy people / and the flocke of thy pasture to magnifye the withe thankes for euer / and to shewe forthe thy prayses from ge­neratyon into generatyon.

QUi regis Israel. Thou herdman & feder of Israhell / lysten & take hede which driuest Ioseph lyke a flocke of she­pe / & thou which syttest betwene the Cherubyus shyne vnto vs. Thou which arte before Ephraim / Beniamin / & Manasses lyfte vp thi power & spede the to saue vs. (Oh god) restore vs / make thy face to shine [Page] vpon vs / & we shalbe saued. Oh lorde which art y ^e god of hostꝭ / how longe wylt thou be angry w ^t the praier of thy people. Thou fedest vs with the teares of oure eyes / and madest vs to lycke in them plē tuously in stede of drynke. Thou sette­dest our borderers agaynste vs / and ma­dest our enemyes to laughe vs to scorne. God of hostes restore / make thy face to shyne vpon vs / and we shalbe saued. Thou translatedest thy vyne frō Egypt and (the gentyles caste oute) plantedeste it in their places. Thou prouydedest it a place and dydest rote it faste / in somoch that it sprede ouer all the lande.

She couerd the hylles with her shadowe and her brode leued braunches shadowed the hyghe Cedres. Thou madest her to sprede forth vnto the weest see / and her brode braunches to reche vnto the floude Eufratem. Wherfore than haste thou broke vp her hedge / that euery man pas­singe foreby may snatche of her frute.

Wherfore do the bores of the forest wrot her vp? and the wylde beestes of the felde fede vp on her? Oh god of hostes turne the / we beseche the loke out from heuen / beholde and vyset this vyne tree. Euen the same vyne whiche thy ryght­hande hath planted / and hast vnderset it [Page] for thyne owne selfe.

Wherfore it is nowe brente vp with fyre and broken downe? at thy rough chalēge and sharpe blamynge they perisshed. Chalenge them agayne into thy hande / for whom thou were wont to declare thy power / delyuer theym whome thou haste strēgthened to be thyne.

We swarue nat from the in any wyse / re­store oure lyfe / that we might calle vpon the. Lorde god of hostes / restore vs / make thy face to shyne vppon vs / and we shall be saued.

EXultate deo adiutori. Synge ye with triumphe vnto god our helper make ye melody to the god of Iacob. Lyft vp your swete tune / smyt vpō your psalteres / & touch clenly the strynges of your swete harpes. Blowe vp your trū pettes in the fest of the newe mone in the fest apoynted for your sacrifyces.

For so it is ordeyned for Israell / and cō ­maūded of the god of Iacob. He cōmaū ded straitely Ioseph to obserue this thinge whan he shulde come out of Egypte / I herde a langage whiche I knewe nat. I toke the burden from his shoulders / & [Page] his handꝭ were delyuerd frō the fornace. Whyles thy enemyes assayled the w ^t ba­tayle thou calledest vpō me & I delyuerd the / I bekened vpon the preuily whan I thondred full lowde / I serched thy herte to proue the at the waters of thy grud­gynge agaynste sayenge. Selah.

Here my people / & I shal ensure the / Is­raell / if thou shalt here and belyue me. If thou wilt nat haue any other strange god / neither worship any other vnknowē god. But wylte knowe & worshyppe me thy god / whiche haue ledde the forthe of Egypt / open thy mouth to aske / & I shall gyue the all thīges. But my people gaue no hede to my voyce / Israell regarded me nothynge at all. And I left them to theyr owne folyshe hardenes of their her­tes / & they wrought after their own inuē ciōs. Oh / that my people had herde me? Oh y ^t Israell had walked in my wayes. Howe shortly thā had I cast down their enemyes / & had brought backe my hande vpon their vexers? Also other nations that hated the lorde hadde bene subdued to them / but their prosperite shulde haue euer florysshed. God shulde haue fedde them with the flowre of whete / & I wol­de haue satysfyed them with honey flow­ynge out of the very stonnes.

DEus steti [...] in Syna. God is chefe in the congregation of myghty mē and playeth the iuge in the myddꝭ of the goddes. Howe longe wyll ye iuge wrongefully / & take vpon ye the face of vngodly men? Selah. Se that ye delyuer in iugement the pore & yonge fatherlesse / set the troubled & oppressed men in their riȝt Auenge the por [...] forsaken & nedy / dely­uer thē from the handes of the vngodly. For these vngodly ar without knowle­ge & vnderstandynge / they wander in der­kenes and turne all thinges vpsodowne. I haue called you goddes / & sayde that ye all were the chyldren of the hygh god. Natwithstādynge lyke mortall mē must ye nedes dye / & euen lyke vyolent princes shall ye fall awaye. Aryse god and iuge thou the erth / for of all natiōs some shall fall into thy herytage.

DEus quis similis erit. God holde nat thy pease / wynke nat at oure [Page] cause / neither be thou styll / oh god. For lo / our enemies wexe wode / & they y ^• hate the set vp their brystels.

Craftely haue they conspyred togyther agaynste thy people / they are gone to take counsell agaynst thy vnknowē saītes. Sayenge / haste ye spedily / let vs make them away from the folke / so y ^t the name of Israell from thēseforth be no more in mynde. They are conspired togyther w ^t one mynde / and haue smyt hādes to be a­gaynst the▪ The tentes of A [...]dom & of Ismaelytes / the Moabites & Hagarēs. The Gabalites / Ammonites / and Ama­lekites / the Philystiens w ^t the Tyrions. Also the Assirions were confedred with them / to helpe the chyldren of Lot. Sel. Serue them as thou ones seruedest the Madianites / and lyke Sesyra the capi­tayne of Iabins hoste / at the floudes of Kysbon. Which were distroied in the felde of Ender / where the carions lay stin­kynge lyke a donghyll vpon therth. Serue the ouermost of these vngodly ly­ke the kynges of Oreb and zeeb / and lyke zebach / and zalmuna / whiche all were ty­rantes. Whiche sayd / let vs chalenge vnto vs / the cytyes of god for our herita­ge. Oh god / brynge these men vnto this poynte / to be lyke a turnynge whele and [Page] lyke the stuph of hēpe cast in the winde. And as the fyer ronneth in thycke roten wode / as the brēnyng flame eateth in the hilles. Euen so folowe vpon them with thy stormes / & make them astonned fearfully with thy sodayne whirlwynde. All to shame them castynge them in to ignomynye / that yet so (and it maye be) they myght seke thy name.

Let them be confounded and amased for euer / lette them be laden with opprobrye that they myght peryshe.

That they myght yet thus knowe the to be god alone / and that thy name is full hyghe ouer all the erth.

QUam dilecta. Howe goodly & am [...] able are thy tabernacles / o lorde of hostes? My soule brēneth and faynteth for desyre to come into the proches of the lorde / my hert & my flesshe cryed vnto the lyuyng god. Euen y ^e lytle sparow there founde her an house / & the swalow a nest to lay ī her yong / & shal nat I come vnto thy altaries / o lorde my kynge & my god? [Page] Happye are they that maye dwell in thy house / for they shall prayse the for euer. Sel. Happy are these men whose strē gth is set in the / to whō also thy pathes are plesante. Men shall make plentuouse foūtaynes for the goers thorowe the wailynge valey / and rayne shall fyll their ce­sterns. And men shall go thicke / flocke after flocke / of the whiche euery one shall apere before god in Sion. Oh lorde [...] god of hostes / here my prayer / lysten vnto me god of Iacob. Selah. Beholde god / which arte our shylde / beholde the face of thy anointed. It is better to be one day in thy fore porches of thy tēple / than he­re a thousande. I had leuer sytte at the thresholde of y ^e house of god / thā to dwell longe in these troublous tabernacles. For the lorde god is both sonne & shylde the lorde shall gyue grace and dignitie. He shall nat turne y ^• that good is / from these mē which liue harmlesse. Oh lorde of hostꝭ / blessed is y ^e mā which trusteth in the.

BEnedixisti domine. Thou shalt bere good mynde vnto thy lande / oh lorde / and shalt turne away the captiuite [Page] of Iacob. Thou shalt take awaye thin­iquite of thy people / & shalt couer al their synnes. Selah. Thou shalt take away all thy wrathe / & shalte pease the furye of thy angre. Restore vs god our sauiour quenche thy indygnation agaynst vs. Wylte thou be angry with vs alwayes? wylt thou stretche forthe thy wrath in to the worldes ende? Thou verily art euen he whiche bringest thy selfe agayn to vs / thou wylt quykē vs / ī the shal thy people yet reioyse. Lay forth for vs / lorde / thy mercyfull goodnes / & gyue vs thy sauīge [...]elpe. I wyll here what it pleaseth god the lord to speke / for it is he that shal speke peace vnto his people / whiche are his sayntes / and they shall nat fall agayn vnto their folysshnes. Surely he shall be nyghe with his helpe vnto those mē whiche feare him / that his beautefull glorye myght inhabyt oure lande. Mercy and faythfulnesse shall mete togyther / right­wysnes & pease shall kysse eche other. Faythfulnes shall sprynge out of therth and ryghtwysnes shall flowe out frō the heuens. Ye / the lorde shall do full gent­ly / & our lande shal yelde forh her ēccrese. Ryghtwysnes shall go in prosperously before him / and he shall set her fete swiftlye in to the waye.

INclina domine. Bowe down thine eare / oh lorde) & answere me / for I am full poore and full of trouble.

Kepe my lyfe for I studye to be good / sa­ue thou thy seruante / my god / for he tru­steth in the withoute any doute.

Haue mercye vpon me / lorde / for I call vnto the dayly. Make glad the mynde of thy seruante / for vnto the (oh lorde / lyft I vp my herte. Uerily thou / lorde / thou art both gentle & mercyfull / thou berest a plētuouse good wyll to al y ^e call vpō the. God / here my prayer / & receyue my depe desyer. Whan I am in trouble I call v­pon the / for thou were wonte to here me. Amonge all the goddes is there nat one to be compared vnto the / neither is there any of them that may do suche thīges as thou dost. All the nation whiche thou hast made / shall come and worshippe the oh lorde god / and shall extolle thy name. For right gret art thou which also dost meruelous thinges / thou arte god alone. Teche me thy wayes / lorde / that I may lyue of thy faythe / knytte my herte vnto the / that it maye feare the.

[Page]I shall magnifye the / O lorde my god / with all my herte I shall sprede thy glo­riouse name for euer. Full great verily haue thy mercyfull goodnes ben euer to­warde me: for thou delyuerdest my soule euen from the nethermost hell.

Oh god / the proude vngodly made insurrection agaynste me / and the cruell con­gregation of violente men seke my lyfe / which haue no respecte vnto the.

But yet y ^u / lorde / y ^u art prone vnto mercy / thou art redy to fauour & to forgiue / slow vnto wrath / swīmyng in mercy & faithfulnes. Beholde me & haue mercy vpō me / gyue thy strength vnto thy seruante / and preserue the sonne of thy hande mayden. Do good vnto me openly / that they that hate me myghte be ashamed to se y ^t thou lorde / helpest and confortest me.

FUndamenta eius. Her foūdatiōs were layde vpon the holy hylles. The lorde loued the gates of Syon / a­boue all the cytyes of Iacob.

Glorious & passynge cleare thynges are spoken of the / oh Cytie of god. Selah▪ [Page] I shall nombre vnto theym that knowe me / Egypte & Babilon. Lo / there shall come with them also the Palestines / the Tyrions / with the Moores of Inde / for he was borne there. Also it shalbe sayde of Syon / this man / and that / was borne in it / & that same man / euen he the moste highest shall laye fast her foundations. The lorde shall nombre and write in his people togither / for it is he that ther was borne. Selah. Both the syngers & the players / with all maner of melody that pleaseth me shall be in the.

DOmine deꝰ salutis. Oh lorde god the author of my helth / I haue cryed vnto the by day / & by night also before the. Let my prayer come before the bowe downe thyne eare to my cryenge. For my soule is cloyed with diseases / & my lyfe is brought vnto my graue.

I am reputed as one to be caste into the ꝓytte / euen as a mā without all strength I was layde to the dead mē / as one free frome the worlde / & lyke men slayne sle­pynge [Page] in their graues out of mynde / as a cast awaye from thy hande. Thou haste put me in to the nether dyche / euyn in to derke and depe dongens. Thy hotte in­dygnatyon laye vpon me / and thou ouerwhelmedest me with all thy flodes. Sel. Thou madest men that knewe me to flye my company / thou causedest me to be es­chewed of thē / I am closed in & maye nat out go. My face is wrinkled & dried vp with sorowe / I called vpon the dayly / I stretched forthe my handes vnto the. Shalte thou worke thy myracles withe the deed men? or shall the buryed men a­ryse agayne and prayse the? Selah. Shall thy mercy be publisshed in mēnes graues? & thy faithfulnes in our depar­tynge. Shall thy myracles be knowen in derknes? & thy rightwysnes in the forgetfull lande? But yet I / o lorde) crye vnto the / and in the mornynge my praier came before the. Wherfore / oh lorde) put test thou away my soule / and turnest thy face fro me? I was tormented in mynde and in a maner deed / euen from my youth was I pressed downe with thy feare / and sythen euer it hath contynued.

Thy wrath peersed me thorowe / thy fe­re hath dygged me thorowe. Anguysshe and trouble hath closed me in dayly lyke / [Page] waters / & haue cōpassed me roūde about. Thou madest my frendes and them that knewe me to flie farre from me / and thus my acqueyntaunce thou hyddest fro me.

MIsericordias domini. The mercy of the lorde shal I prayse in my songe perpetually / & thy faythfulnes shall I declare with my mouth into all ages. For thus thought I w ^t my self / thy mer­cy shall be p̄pared euer to cont [...]nue / & thy faithfulnes also to encrese in the veri he­uēs. I smit hādes w ^t my chosen / & swore vnto Daued my seruāt. I shall stablishe his posterite w ^t encrese to stāde for euer / I shal set fast his seate regal īto al agꝭ. Se. Heuenly mē shal celebrate & publishe thy meruelous dedꝭ / oh lorde / saītes shal sprede [Page] thy faithfulnes in the congregation. For what man in the clowdꝭ may be cō ­pared to the lorde? or who amonge the goddes may be lykened vnto the lorde. God is greatly dreded ī the cōgregacyon of his saintes / & gretly to be feared amōg thē which ar aboute hī. Lorde the god of hostꝭ who is lyke the in power? oh lor­de / all thynges about the ar faythfulnes. Thou declarest thy power euē vpon the proude see / & swagest her highe waues. Thou hast smyt downe and all to broken Egypt / w ^t thy stronge power thou haste dispersed thyn enemyes. Heuēs ar thine the erth is thyne / the roūde worlde with all that therin is / thou haste made them. The northe & the southe thou hast made them / Thabor and Hermon shall reioyse in thy name. Thou haste an excedynge strength / thou strengtheneste thy hande and lyftest vp thy ryghthande.

In rightwisnes & equite thy seate is set / mercy & faithfulnes go before thy face. Happy is y ^e people / oh lorde / y ^t knoweth the voyce of the trōpettes / they y ^t are en­dued with the fauour of thy presence shal in entre. They shall reioyse vpō thy name dayly / and for thy ryghtwisnes they shall lyfte vp their selues.

For thou art the glory of their strēgth & [Page] for thy good wylles sake thou shalt extol our power. The lorde is our prīce & our shylde / it is our kynge y ^t maketh holy Is­raell. Than thou spokest in a visyon to thy saītes / sayeng. I haue set vp a mightty man to be an helper / I haue lyfte vp a chosen mā out of my people. I haue foū de my seruant Dauid / with my holy oyntmente haue I anoynted him. That my hande shulde be fast with him / & that my armes shulde strengthen him.

His aduersaryes shall nat begyle him / a shrewde man shal nat vexe him.

I shall smyte togyther his aduersaryes befor his face / & his haters shal I distroy. My mercy & my faythfulnes are with hī / and ī my name shal his power be exalted. I shall throwe the see vnder his power / & the floudes shalbe at his cōmaundement. He shall call vpon me sayeng / my father arte thou / my god / my sauynge defence. Ye / I shall set hym to be my fyrst begotē chylde / to be aboue the kyngꝭ of therth. Into euerlastyng shall I laye vp my mercy for him / & I shalbe faythfull in promyse vnto him. I shall bryng it so to passe that his sede shall euer endure / & his seate regall shal stāde as longe as y ^e heuens a­byde. But if his chyldren shall forsake my lawe / & lyue nat after myn ordinaūce. [Page] If they shall defyle my ceremonies / & wil nat obserue my commaundementes. With a rodde than shall I punyshe theyr synnes / & with beatynges shall I reward their iniquites. But yet my mercy shal I nat take from him / neither wyll I de­ceyue him of my promyse. I shall nat frustrate my bargayne / neither wyll I change that thynge which is ones gone forth of my mouth. Ones I swore be my ho­lynes / & in no maner of wyse shall I de­ceyue Dauid. His seade shall euer con­tynue / his seate regall shall abyde before me lyke the sōne. It shall endure as fast to stande as the moone / whiche is in the cloudꝭ a sure forshewer of the tyme. Sel. But yet thou hast repelled / thou hast abhorred & turned away thy face in thy gre [...] angre from thy anoynted. Thou haste had no consyderacyon of thy couenaunte smytten with thy seruauntes / thou hast caste downe his diademe to the grounde. Thou hast cast downe his walles / & tur­ned his stronge defēces īto his gret feare They plucked & tore him / as many as passed foreby / he was brought to this state / that euen his owne neyghbours had him for a laughyng stocke. Thou maintenedest the righthande of thē that assayled hī / all his enemyes thou madest glad [Page] Uerily euyn thou bluntedest the edge of his swerde / and woldest nat helpe him in batayle. Thou madest an ende of hys dignyte / and his seate regall thou thre­west downe into the erth. Thou cuttest of the dayes of his youth / and couerdest him with ignomynie. Selah.

Howe longe / o lorde) shalt thou thus cō tynually turne the awaye? shall thy ho [...]e indygnatyon brenne thus styll lyke fyer? Remēbre of how fewe dayes I am / hast thou made all men in vayne? For what man is there whiche must nat dye? maye there any man delyuer his lyfe frome the power of his graue? Selah. Where are those thy mercys shewed of old tyme past oh lorde / whiche thou sworest vnto Da­uid of thy faith? Remēbre thy rebukes whiche are layde vpon thy seruauntes / o lorde) I receyued into myn owne bosom all the rebukes of moch people.

With the which thy enemyes reuyled vs / oh lorde / they reuyled euyn thy anoyn­ted / bycause he taryed so longe.

Praysed be the lorde for euer more.

DOmine refugiū. Lorde thou hast ben a refuge or sanctuary for vs / & that at all tymes. Before thy hilles we­re brought forth / and the erth rounde a­bout was prepared / frome worldes vnto worldes / thou art god. Thou ledest backe man vntyll he be olde / and than thou sayest / turne ye backe agayne o mortall men. For a thousand yeres are before the / euyn as yesterdaye / whiche are nowe past as one of the watches of the night. Thou makest them to slyde downe all at ones lyke a sodeyn gret rayne / they ar ly­ke a dreame / & lyke a floure anon ar they changed. Which florisheth in the mor­nynge / and receyueth fresshe beautie / at euenynge it is cutte downe and withred. Uerily we are wasted with thy wrathe / and with thy feruente indignatyon ar we throwen downe.

Thou haste layed our iniquyties before thy face / and our offences haste thou set in the lyghte of thy presens. All our dayes (thou beynge angry) shall slyde a­waye / our yeres go away lyke a thought. The dayes of our yeres ar threscore and ten / & we be somewhat stronge / they are [Page] foure score / and the beste of them are passed in synne and heuynes / swiftly we muste flye awaye. What man knoweth the power of thy wrath? but lyke as men feare the / so fele they thy indignation. Wherfore shewe vs playnly the nōbre of our dayes / that our herte myght gete so­me wysdome. Turne the lorde / how longe? be pleased / set thy herte at rest with thy seruantes. Fyll vs anone with thy mercy / & we shall tryumphe & reioyse all our dayes. Make vs glad for the dayes in y ^e which thou hast scourged vs / & for y ^e yeres in the whiche we suffred afflyctiōs. Let thy worke shyne vpō thy seruantꝭ / & thy beautefull magnifycence vpon their chyldrē. The glorious maiestye of the lorde our god be ouer vs / & make y ^u to prospere / what so euer we go about / what so euer we begin make it to succede luckely.

QUi habitat in. Who so euer sytteth in the secrete helpe of the most hyghest / & abydeth faste vnder the shadowe of the all mighty / for all alone suffycient. He shall saye to the lorde / thou arte my trusty defence & my castel / my god / I shal [Page] cleue vnto him. For he wyl delyuer me from the snare of the hunters / and from their deedly pestylence. He wyl couer y ^e with his fethers / & thou shalt be sure vn­der his wynges / defended w ^t his faithfull promyse / as with bucler and shylde.

Thou shalt nat nede to be afraid of night bugges / neither of the arowes that flye by day. Neither of the poyson pestylēce that crepeth in the derke / nor yet of the deuylyshe distroyer in the clere mydday. There shall fall of thy left syde a thousā de / and of thy ryght hande shall there fal ten thousande / but suche falles shall nat come nyghe the. For thou onely shalte beholde these thinges with pleasure / and shalte se these vngodly quyted agayne. For thou lorde / thou arte my hope / thou hast set the most highest to be my refuge. No disease shall come a nygh the / nether any plage shall happen vnto thy house. For he hath cōmaūded euyn his angels to be with the / & to kepe the dilygently in all thy wayes. Whiche shall beare y ^e vp with their handes / onelesse thou smytest thy fote agaynst any stone.

Thou shalte walke vpon lyons and ve­nomous edders / and shalte treade vnder thy fote the lyōs whelpes and dragons. Because he hath trusted in me / I shal delyuer [Page] him / I shall gyue him the ouer hā ­de bicause he hath knowleged my name. He shall call vpon me & I shall answere him: I shall be present with him in tribulation / I shall defende him / and shall en­due him with dignytie.

I shall fyll him with longe lyfe / and shal gyue him my sauynge helth.

BOnum est confiteri. Nowe is conuenyent tyme to magnify the lorde / and to sprede thy name with prayse / oh thou most highest.) To synge erly thy mercy & thy faithfulnes in the night sea­son. And that vpon ten stringed instru­mentes / vpon the lute / the psaltry / and vpon the harpe. For thou hast made me glad with thy workes / & I shall triumph vpon the dedes of thy handes.

Howe great ar thy dedes / oh lorde) mer­uelouse profounde and vnsercheable are thy counsels and thy thoughtes.

A dull man shall nat knowe this thinge neither these shrewde fooles shall vnder­stande them. That is to say euyn these / whyles the vngodly shall flourisshe lyke [Page] the floure / and all that are addycte vnto wyckednes / shalbe gyuen to sprede them selfe / to the entent they shulde be blowen awaye for euer.

Than arte thou full hyghe to abyde in to euerlastynge / oh lorde.

For lo / thy enemyes / o lorde / for lo / thy enemyes perysshe / they ar distroyed who so euer were gyuen to wyckednes.

But thou shalte lyfte vp thy horne lyke an vnycorne / I shall be anoynted & sou­pled to be made fresshe and lusty againe. I shall se my desyer fall vpon my await-layers / and myne eare shall heare that I longed for of those mē which pursued me The rightwisman shall florisshe lyke the palme tree / and shall excede in strength lyke the Cedres of Lybani.

They are planted in the house of the lorde / & shall flourisshe in the foure porches of our god. Ye / and euen nowe in their olde age / shall they yet be fruitfull / freshe and full of lyuely sappe.

To declare / howe indyfferent and right­wyse is the lorde / my stronge defence in whom is there no shrewdnesse.

[Page]THe lorde is kynge / his maiestye is gloriouslye deckte: the lorde hath done vpon himself strength / & hath girte himselfe mightely. He hath verily buylded and set fast the roūde worlde / so that it shall nat be moued. Thy seate was prepared in season: but thou thy selfe art of euerlastynge. The floudes are rysen / o lorde) the floudes haue rored / the floudes haue lyfte vp their stremes. Aboue the noyse of the meruelouse stormy and troubled see / meruelouse is the lorde whiche hath his resydence aboue. Thy wordes are certaine & very faithfull / thy house is right fayre / holy / & goodly / the secrete holy place of the lorde shall stande into full longe tymes.

DEus vlcionum. Lorde / god / the reuenger of synnes / god the punis­sher of synnes / shyne vpon vs.

Lyfte vp & shewe forth thy selfe / o iuge of the erth / acquyte these proude mē / and gyue them their rewarde. Howe longe shall these vngodly / oh lorde? how longe shal these vngodly thus ꝓsper & reioyse? [Page] Shall they thus prate and speke proud­ly? shall they thus boost themselfe / these men addicte and all giuen to wickednes? They oppresse thy people / oh lorde / they scourge theym whom thou chalengest of right heritage. Pore wydowes and strā gers they slee / and yonge fatherles chyl­dren they put to deth. And they thynke that the lorde se nat these thīges / nether that the god of Iacob perceyueth them. Se that ye haue vnderstādynge ye foles amonge the people / and ye sottes whan at the laste wyll ye wexe wyse?

He y ^t made the eare / howe shulde he nat here? & he that facyoned y ^e eye / how shuld he nat se? He that chastyse all nacyons and gyueth knowlege to the men / shal he nat correcte you? The lorde knoweth euyn the very thoughtes of mē / and that they are vayne & nought. Blessed is the man whom thou / o lorde / techest and chastynest / and instructest him in thy lawe. That thou mightest set him at reste in a troubelouse season / euen than whilꝭ the pytte is yet a dyggynge for the vngodly. For the Lorde shall nat caste awaye his people / neither wyll he forsake them / he hath taken vp into his herytage.

For yet shall iugement be ioyned with rightwysnes / this rightwysnes shall all [Page] men right in herte folowe.

What man wyll ryse for me agaynst the vngodly? who wyll stande with me a­gaynst these workers of wyckednesse. Excepte y ^e lorde had helpte me / my soule had shortly dwelled in the place of silēce. But whan I thought / nowe my fote is slyden awaye / than thy mercy / oh lorde / helde me vp. These manyfolde & careful thoughtes brent me nat within so soore / but thy consolatyons refresshed agayne my soule moch more. For what hast thou to do with the feare of these flare­ryng dissemblers? whose maner is to fayne iniuries. They clustred & were wrapped togider agaynst the iust mānes soule & they shed deuelisshly the īnocētes blode But the lorde shall be a castell for me / in which I maye be safe / and my god is my rocke stōne in whom I may be defended. And he wyll acquyte them their wickednes / and whyles they ace aboute to hurt other with wronge / he shall distroye thē / the lorde our god shall distroye them.

UEnite exultemus. Come & let vs triumph / let vs make melody to the lorde / the defender of our helthe.

[Page]Let vs haste to come in to his presence with prayse giuynges / let vs synge vnto him with hymnes. For the Lorde is a right great god & kinge ouer all goddes. In whose hande are the depe secretes of the erth / and the highthes of the hylles. The see is his / for he made it / and al cō ­teyned therin his handes haue facyoned. Come therfore and let vs worshyp / and fall downe vppon oure knees before the Lorde oure maker.

For he is oure god / and we are the peo­ple of his pasture / and the flocke whome he dryueth / if we thys daye gyue hede and beleue his worde.

Se that ye harden natte youre hertes as they dyd in the deserte of Merybah / in the tyme of temptacyon.

Whan youre fathers tempted and pro­uoked me / and yet they se my workes. Fortie yeres I chydde with the nacyon / and I sayde / this people erreth in their hertes / they alowe nat my wayes.

Unto whom I swore ī myne angre / they shall neuer entrr ī to the lande of my rest.

[Page]CAntate. Synge ye to the lorde a new songe / synge ye to the lorde as many as dwell vpon therth. Synge ye to the lorde and prayse ye his name / preache ye day by daye y ^t sauynge helth whi­che he bryngeth. Put the gentyls also in mynde of his beautefull glory / & amōg all his people declare ye his merueles. For right gret is the lorde & worthy moche prayse / he is to be feared before all goddes. For all the goddes of the people are nought / it is the lorde that hath made the heuens. Noble fame & clernes is before him / power and maiestye shyne in his holy secrete place. Gyue ye to the lorde honour welworthy his name / brīge ye forth gyftes and come into his temple Worship ye the lorde in his ryche & goodly temple / feare him ye that inhabyte the erth. Tell ye the gentyles that the lorde is kynge / he shall stablissh the worlde lest it rele / he shall iuge / and reason with the people indifferētly. Be glad ye heuens / and let the erth ioye / let the see take her pleasure / & what so euer swīmeth therin. Let the felde laugh / and what so euer is conteyned in it / nowe let all the trees of the wode triumphe. Ye / and that before the lorde / for he is come / for he is come to gouerne the erth / to gouerne the worlde [Page] with rightwisnes / and the people of hys faythfulnesse.

DOminus reg. exul. The lorde is kinge / the erthe ioyeth & many iyl­des ar glad. He is closed aboute with a derke cloude / but his seate regall is sette in rightwisnesse and equyte.

Fyer goth before him / and brenneth his enemyes round about him. His lyghtnynges smyte the worlde roundabout / y ^e erth sawe them / and trembled for feare. Hylles melted awaye lyke waxe at the presens of the lorde / they melted euen frō the presens of the lorde of all the erth. The heuens shewed forth his xightwys­nesse / & all the people sawe his gloriouse beautie. Let them be shamed who soe­uer worshyp carued images / whiche also glorie in fayned pyctures of nought / ye goddes all / se that ye fall downe & wor­shyp him. Syon haue herde and is glad the cyties of Iuda reioise ī thy iugemēt [...] oh lord. For thou / lorde / art higher thā all men of therth / and farr exalted aboue all the goddes. Ye that loue the Lorde / se that ye hate euyll / he kepeth the lyues of his sayntes / & delyuereth them frome [Page] the hādes of the vngodly.

Lyght is sprede amonge the rightwyse and gladnes to the vpright in herte.

Be glad ye rightwyse in the lorde / & sprede ye his holy memoriall euerywhere.

CAntate. Synge ye to the Lorde a newe songe for he hath done mer­uelouse dedes / he saued alonly with hys right hande and with his holy arme.

The lorde hath declared his sauing hel­the / he hath opened and sette forthe hys rightwysnesse before the gentyles.

He remēbreth his mercy & his faythfull promyse to be performed vpon the house of Israhell. All the costes of the erthe haue sene the sauynge helthe / whyche our god hath brought. Make ye melody to the lorde al therth / lyfte vp your voice tryumph and synge ye. Singe ye to the lorde with harpe / playe vpon harpe the dytie with swete note. With clariers & trumpettes / make ye melodye before the kynge which is the lorde. Let the see romble out her melody and all therin / ye / the rounde worlde also & all that enhabit it. Let the floudes clappe their handes gtoither / & the hylles also be glad reioy­synge [Page] before the Lorde. For he is come to gouerne the erthe / he shal gouerne the rounde worlde with ryghtwysnesse and the people with equyte.

DOminus reg. iras. The Lorde is kynge / be the peple neuer so wrath he sytteth in his estate vpō the arche by­twene the Cherubyns / although therthe be moued therat. The lorde which dwelleth in Siō is right great / & his power is mighty ouer all peple. Let mē sprede thi name / for it is gret & to be fered / & holy al­so This kīge excelleth in strēgth & loue of iugement / thou hast set all thynges in due ordre with Iacob / so that they maye be nowe done of equyte and right.

Extolle ye therfore the lorde oure god / & fall ye down before his fote stole for he is holy. Moyses & Aharon chefe amōg his sacrifycers / & Samuell chefe amonge the callers vpon his name / called vpō the lorde / & he graūted thē. From the shadowe beme of the cloude / he spoke to thē / they marked and kepte hys cōmaundementes and ceremonies which he gaue them. Lorde thou art our god thou graūtedest [Page] these men / and for their sakes thou for­gauest them / also for these mennes sakes thou takest vengeaunce vpon them.

Extoll ye the lorde oure god / and fall ye downe before his hyll / for holy is the lorde our god.

IUbilate. Make ye melody vnto y ^e lorde / all that dwell vpon the erth. Worshyppe ye the lorde gladly / come in­to his presens ioyfully. Knowledge ye the lorde that he is god / he hath made vs and nat we our selues / we are his people and the flocke of his pasture.

Entre ye in to his gates with thākes geuyng / & into his for porches with prayse syngyng / magnifie hī & praise his name. For the lorde is ryght gentle / his mercy endureth in to euerlastynge / & his fayth fulnes into all ages.

MIsericordiam & iudici. Of mercy & equite shall be my songe / vnto the shall I synge / oh lorde.

[Page]I shall behaue my self wysely lyuyng īnocētly / whā shalt y ^u come to me? I shal walke in my house w ^t a pure & harmles hert. No shrewde thynge shall I purpose / him that foloweth shrewdenes I hate / and in no wyse shall he be to me belongynge. A malicious herte shall avoyde fro me / and an hurtful man shal I nat maīteyne. A priuy backebiter of his neyghboure wyll I distroye / a proude countinaunce with a swellīg herte / hī wyl I nat suffre. But I serche for them that loue fayth­fulnes in therth / that suche myght dwell with me / he that lyueth hurtelesse shall serue me. There shall be no place in my house for him that doth deceitfully / he y ^t speketh lyes shall nat prospere with me. But swiftly shall I dystroye these vngodly vpon therth / that I might cut oute of the cyte of the lord all workers of falshed

DOmine exaudi. Lorde heare my prayer / and suffre my depe desyre to come vnto the. Hyde nat thy face from me in tyme of my tribulation / bow down thyn eare vnto me in the day whan I cal vpon the / spede the to graunt me.

For my dayes verily ar vanyshed away lyke smoke / and my bones are dryed vp lyke a stowe. My hert is smytē thorow lyke grasse & is wethered away / in so moche as I forsoke to take myn own meate I was so dryed vp w ^t my sorowfull and lowde syghes / y ^t my bones clyued to my skynne. I am like an estrege of the wyl­dernes / & made lyke an houlet in an olde forlaten house. I lye wakyng & am left alone / lyke the sparowe in the thacke. Myn enemies reuyled me al day / & they y ^t chidde me vsed my name opprobriously. I eate therth in stede of brede / & lycke in my teares in stede of drinke. And all is for thy indignacion & thi wrath / for whā I was a loft ethou threwest me downe. My dayes are vanyshed away lyke a sha­dowe / & I my self am wythered lyke hay. But thou lorde syttest styll for euer & thy memoriall endureth in euery age.

Thou shalte ryse & haue pety on Syon / [Page] for it is tyme for the to fauour it / for the day apointed is now come. For the stones of it please thy seruantes verily / and they fauor her soyle. Euen the haythen also shal worship the name of the Lord / & al the kynges of the erth shal knowlege thy glorious beaute. The lorde verily shal bylde Syon / he shalbe sene in his be­auteful glory. And he shal haue respect vnto the prayer of the pore forsaken / his prayer shal he nat dispise. This thynge shalbe writen for the worlde to come / and for his cause the people which ar yet vn­made shall prayse the Lorde.

For he shal loke forth of his hyghe holy place / the Lorde euyn frō heuen shall be­holde the erth. To here the syghes of them that are in bondes / and to lose the chyldren iuged to dethe. That they myght preache the name of the Lorde in Syon / and his prayse in Ierusalem. Whan the people & the kyngdomes shall be gathered togyther to worshyp y ^e lord. He abated my courage in my iourney / & hath cut of my dayes.

I say [...] my god take me nat awaye in the myddes of my dayes / for thy yeres endu­re thorow out all ages. In the begīning thou laydest the foundation of the erthe / and the heuens are thy handy worke. [Page] They shall perishe whan thou shalt stande fast / and all thynges shall ware olde lyke a garment / y ^u shalt dresse them agayn lyke a garment & they shalbe chaunged. But thou art euen thyne owne self / and thy yeres shall neuer be ended.

The chyldren of thy seruātes shall dwel styll and their posterite shall lyue prosperously and blessedly in thy presens.

BEnedic aīa. Prayse thou the lorde o my soule / and all that are within me / prayse his holy name. Prayse thou the lord o my soule / & forgete nat his be­nefytes. Whiche forgyueth the all thy iniquities / and heleth all thy deseases. He redimeth thy lyfe frō ꝑdicyon / & hea­peth vpon the on euery syde his mercy & gentlenes. He fylleth thy soule w ^t good­nes & renueth thy yougth lyke an Egle. Of rightwysnes and equite / he restoreth all men that suffre wronge.

He hath made his waies knowē to Moises) & his dedes to the chyldrē of Israell. The lorde is prone vnto mercy and bēte [Page] vnto fauour / he is slowe vnto wrath / and plentuous in goodnes. He shal nat chyde alwayes / neither kepe hatred in mynde euer to be auēged. He hath nat deelt with vs after our synnes / neither rewarded vs accordynge to our iniquytes. But loke howe hyghe heuēs ar ouer the erth / euyn so high hath he made his mercy to preuayle ouer thē that worshyp him And loke howe farre the eest is from the weest / euen so farre hath he set our syn­nes from vs. Loke howe the fathers herte yerneth vpon his chyldren / euen so doth the lorde pety them that feare him. For he knoweth of what frayle metall we are / he remembreth full well that we are but duste. The dayes of man ar ly­ke grasse / for as a flowre of the felde he florissheth for a tyme. Whom whan the wīde hath ouerblowē / by & by is it gone / and his place where he was knoweth hī no more. But the mercy of the lorde en­dureth from worldes vnto worldes ouer them that feare him / and his ryghwys­nes stretcheth to their chyldres children. Unto those which kepe couenaunt with him / and holde in mynde his cōmaunde­mentes / to thentent they wolde do them. The lorde hath set fast his seate regal in the heuens / and all thynges are subiecte [Page] vnto his kyngdome. Prayse the lorde / ye whiche are his messagers valiaunt in power which do his commaundementes obeynge him at a worde.

Prayse ye the lorde all his hoste / ye that are his mynisters which do his pleasure. Prayse ye the lorde all his workes / ye / & that in euery place of his dominion.

BEnedic. Praise y ^u y ^e lorde my soule oh lorde my god thou art greatly to be magnifyed / thou hast ornoured thy selfe with fame / clerenesse / and glorye. Thou deckest thy selfe with lyght as w ^t a garment / thou stretchest out the heuens lyke a cortayne.

He layeth the bemes of his tabernacles aboue in the waters / he him selfe is ca­ryed in the clowdes / he flyeth on his iourney with the wynges of the wynde.

He vseth blastes of wynde for his messagers / & for his ministers he hath the fla­myng [...]yer. He layde the foundacion of the erth [...]ast stayed / of her owne selfe / so that she shal nat rele for euer.

Thou hast wrapped it in / with the depe see lyke as with a garmēt / for euen vpon [Page] the hylles waters shall stande.

They fled whan y ^u blamedest them / & fell downe sodenly at the noyse of thy thōde­rynge. The hylles apered all alofte / the playne feldes lay beneth at their place assygned them. Thou hast lymyted them their boūdes whiche they ouer passe nat / onlesse they retourne / ouerflowe therth. He sendeth forth quycke sprynges into ryuers which ren downe betwene the hylles. Wherof drinke the wylde beestes / & wylde asses slacke their thyrste.

Nyghe these swete flodes the foules of thayer haue their seates / & synge among the bowes. He watreth the hylles euen from his ouer parlers / w ^t the plentuous­nes of thy workes thou satisfyest therth. He maketh y ^e grasse to spryng & to grow into fother for catall / & the corne also by mānes labour & toylīge / wherby he miȝt get liuyng out of the groūde. As wyne which maketh mery mānes herte / & oyle whiche maketh mannes face fresshely to shine / & bred which susteineth thart of mā The trees of the lorde ar refresshed / euen the Cedres of Lybani which he planted. In the which the byrdꝭ nestle / & y ^• Curl [...] hath their her nest. The hygh hylles ar a refuge & socour for y ^e wylde gotes / & the stonney rockes for the hares.

[Page]He made the moue to shewe the apoīted festes (the sonne knoweth whan he shall go downe. Thou bryngest derkenesse vpon / to make the nyght / & than they go to their relefe / the wylde beestes of y ^e wo­des. As the lyōs roryng for their proie so to aske their meate of god.

The sonne rysen / they are hyd agayne / and are layde downe in their dennes.

But man goth forth to his worke & vn­to his labour / vntyll the euenynge.

Oh / howe excellent are thy workꝭ / o lorde? all thynges wysely haste thou made / the erth swymmeth in thy goodnes.

This see is gret and of maruelous large bredthe / there are thyngꝭ crepynge with out nombre / and thynges that haue lyfe both great and small.

There sayle shyppes / and there go these whales which y ^u hast made therī to play. All thynges wayte vpon the / that thou shuldest gyue them meate in time.

Whan thou hast gyuen it thē / than they gather / & whan thou hast opened thy hā ­de / than ar they well satisfyed with good fode. Whan thou turnest away thy fa­ce / than are they astoned / whan thou gathrest in their breath / than are they deed and returned into erth.

And agayn whan thou breathest vpon [Page] them / than are they created a newe: and thus renuest thou the face of therth.

The glorious beaute of the lorde stādeth for euer / the lorde shal euer reioyse of his workes. He beholdeth therth & it trem­bleth: he toucheth thylles & they smoke. I shal synge vnto y ^e lorde whyles I lyue I shall synge vnto my god as longe as I shall haue my beīg. My speche might be swete vnto hī / I shall reioyse ī the lorde. Let the sīners be cōsumed vpō therth / & the vngodly also / vntyll that non be lefte a lyue. oh my soule praise thou the lorde.

LOUE IE THE LORDE.

COnfttemini. Magnifye ye y ^e lorde and call vpon his name / put the pe­ple in mynde of his wonderfull dedes. Synge vnto him and make ye melodye / shewe forth all his meruelouse workes. Gloriously sprede ye a brode his holy name / their hertes might be glad that seke the lorde. Seke ye the lorde dilygently / & his mighty seate also / seke ye his face al­waye. Remembre his actes whiche he hath done / his wonders and iugementes which are gone forth of his mouthe.

[Page]Oh / ye seede of Abraham which are his seruantes / oh ye chyldren of Iacob hys chosen. The lorde / he is our god / which optayneth the rule ouer all the erthe. He remembreth his promyse thorowe al ages / that his bargayne might stande in to thousande generacyons. Whiche he smyt with Abrahā / & swore vnto Isaac. Whiche he put to Iacob for a lawe / & to Israhell into a perpetuall couenaunte. Whan he sayde / vnto the I gyue the lāde of Canaan / the lot & porcyon of thyne in­heritance. Euyn whan they were but a fewe sely men and straungers therin. Goynge frome nacyon to nacyon / frome their owne realme to a nother people. He suffred nat any man to do them wrō ge / & for their pleasures he chastysed euē the kynges. Se therfore that ye touche nat my anointed / neither hurt ye my prophetꝭ. He brought an hungre vpon the lande / and wasted all their yerely corne. He sente before them a man / euē Ioseph solde into bondage.

They tormented his fete with fetters / & his body was caste into yerns.

Untyll his dede came īto lyght / the worde of goddes owne mouth restored him tryed with fyer lyke golde.

The kynge sente and delyuered him / and [Page] the gouerner of the people dyd lose him. He made hym ruler of hys house / and the dysposer of hys goodes.

To correcte his nobles at his pleasure / and to teach his sage men wysdome.

And Israhell after this is comen in to Egypt / & Iacob became a stranger in the lāde of Ham. And god encresed his peple excedyngly / and made them stronger than their aduersaryes.

And afterward turned the hertꝭ of these men / & made them to hate his people / & to worke disceyte with his seruantes. And than he sente thē Moyses his ser­uaunt and Aharon his chosen.

These men shewed his myracles amōge them / and wōders in the lande of Ham. He caste vpon them derknesse / and made derke Egypte / and they dyd nat againste his wordes.

He turned their waters in to blode / and slewe their fysshes.

Frogges crepte euerywhere in their lā ­de / euyn in the kynges bed chambres.

He dyd but saye the worde / & there came swarmes of flyes & lyse in to all their co­stes. In stede of rayne he gaue thē hayle stones / and lyghtenynge in their lande. He smyt their vynes & fygtrees / & broke downe their trees in their coostes.

[Page]He spoke the worde / & there came hotte flyes / and deuourynge wormes without nombre. Which deuoured & brēte vp all the grasse in their lande / they eate vp the fruit in their feldes. He smyt also euery first begoten that they had / euyn the first fruites of their wedlocke. But he ledde forth his chosen / endued with syluer and golde / and there was nat one in their trybes that was sycke. Egipte reioysed in their forth goinge / for they were a frayde to holde them any lenger. He stretched forth a cloude which couered theym / and sente thē fyer to lyghten them by night. They asked / and their came quayles and he fylled them with heuenly foode.

He opened they in the stony rocke / & their flowed oute waters / the floudes ranne downe y ^e wyldernesse. For he remēbred his holy promyse / and also his seruant Abrahā. And he led forth his people in great ioye / & his chosen w ^t gret triumph. And he delyuered them the lādes of the gentyles / & they chalēged vnto them the labours of the flocke by right herytage. To thentente they wolde obserue his ce­remonyes / and kepe his lawes also.

LOUE IE THE LORDE.

COnfitemini. Magnifye ye the lor­de / for he bereth vs good mynde / & his mercy is set forth for vs into euerla­stīge Who may expresse y ^e noble actes of the lord / who may declare all his praises Blessed are they that obserue equytie / and studye to do right at all tymes.

Remēbre me / oh lorde) accordyng to thy good wyll promysed to thy people / vyset me with thy sauynge helth / which thou hast promysed. That I might delyte in beholdynge the prosperyte of thy chosen that I mighte reioyse in the gladnesse of thy folke / and that I might glorye with thy people / whō thou haste claimed to be thy right herytage. We are siners lyke as oure fathers were / we haue commyt­ted wickednes and haue done vngodlily. Our fathers in Egipte regarded nat thy myracles / neither remēbred they thy ma­nyfolde goodnes: they rebelled at the see euyn at the red see. And yet he saued thē for his names sake / to magnifye his glo­ryouse power. He rebuked roughly the red see & it was vpdried / and he led them [Page] thorowe the depth lyke as thorowe a de­serte. He preserued them from the han­des of their aduersaryes / & redemed them from the power of their enemyes.

And the waters ouerwhelmed their ad­uersaryes / so that nat one of theym was lefte a lyue. Than beleued they his wor­des / and songe forth prayse vnto him. But full sone after forgote they his workes / they wolde nat abyde his pleasure. They were set a fyer w ^t lust in the deserte and they tempted god in the wyldernes. And he gaue thē their askīge / but with it he cast their bodyes into a consūptyon. They enuyed Moyses and angred hī in their tentes / and Aharon also the lordes saynte. Therth opened her selfe & swa­lowed in Dathan / & supte vp the congregation of Abyram. Fyer consumed their feloshyp / the flame brente vp thun godly. They made a calfe in Horeb / & worshipt the cast idole And they turned his beautiouse glory īto the symilytude of an oxe that eateth grasse.

They had forgotten god their sauyoure / euen him whiche dydde so great thynges for them in Egypte.

They forgot the myracles in the lāde of Ham / euyn the terryble actes / whiche he wrought in the redde see.

[Page]And he thought to haue banisshed them had nat Moyses his chosen put forth hī selfe a speker for them reconsyled these of broken / & peasyng his heuy indygnation vnlesse he shu [...] haue distroyed them After this they dispysed that lande so worthy to be desyred / neither had they any faythe to his promyse.

They murmured in their tabernacles / they gaue no hede to the lorde.

And he lyfted vp his hande againste thē to throwe them downe in the wyldernes. Ye / to cast downe their posteryte amōge the gentyls / & to scater them into the re­giōs. They were addicte & maryed vnto Baalpeor / & they eate the ded sacrifyces. They prouoked him to angre with their owne inuencyons / and vengeaunce crept in and sprede amonge theym

Thā stepte forth Pinchas & auēged goddes quarell & helde backe the vengeance. Which facte was a lowed him for a rightwyse dede throwout all ages into euerlastynge. They prouoked god also at the waters of their grugynge against sayēg / & Moyses was punisshed for their sakes. For they troubled & vered his mynde / & he spoke a mysse with his mouthe.

Neither wolde they distroye the gentyls as the lorde commaunded them.

[Page]They medled & maried with the gentyls and learned their workes. They wor­shypt their carued images which turned them to cōfusyon. Also they slewe their owne sonnes & daughters / offringe them vp to sacrifyces to deuils. They shedde thinnocent blode / euyn the blode of their owne sonnes & doughters whō they slew and offred to the Idols of Canaan / & the erth was polluted with the blode.

They were defyled thorowe their owne workes / & they were vnshamfased in their owne dedes. And the wrath of the lord was kyndled agaynst his people / and he turned his face from his herytage.

And he betoke them into the handes of the gentyles / & they that hated thē were become their rulers. And their enemis oppressed them / & subdued them to their power. Many tymes he delyuered them and yet they rebelled his pleasur / & were worne out with their owne wyckednesse. And he behelde whan they were sore laide agaynst / and herde their lamentacion. He remēbred hys promyse vnto them / & of his great goodnes he turned himselfe from indygnation. And he brought it to passe / that euen they which helde them in captiuyte had pytie vpon them.

Saue vs lorde our god / & seperate vs frō [Page] the gentyles / that we might publissh thy holy name / & prayse the ī thy laudable dedes. The lorde of Israhell be praysed from worldes & in to worldes / & all peple might saye. Amen. Praise ye the lorde.

COnfitemini. Magnify ye y ^e lorde / for he is gratious & of good mynde towarde vs / & his goodnes stādeth forth for vs for euer. Let them that are rede­med of the lorde / euyn thē whom he hath losed from so narowe straītes praise him Whom he hath gathered from the partꝭ of therth / as from the Est and west / from the north & south. For whan they erre frō the way in the desert / & fynde no tow­ne inhabited. And for honger & thyrst their soule famysheth in them They cry to the lorde in suche a narawe straynte / & he delyuereth thē from their distresse. And leadeth them into the ryght waye / which bringeth thē to the cyte inhabited Of this they magnifye the lorde for hys goodnꝭ / they publyshe his meruelous de­des amonge men. As whā he satisfieth a thristy soule / and replenysheth an hun­gry soule with good sustinaunce.

But they that sit in derkenes / and in the [Page] shadow of deth / in afflyction / and yerne. Because they rebelled agaynst the wor­des of god / and casted away opprbrious­ly the counsell of the most hyghest. Whose hertꝭ he tameth by afflyction / for they fall & there is nat one that wyll hel­pe them. They crye vnto the lorde in su­che narowe straintes / and he delyuereth them from their distresse.

For he ledeth them forth of derkenes / & from the shadowe of deth / and breketh of their bandes. And than they magnifye the lorde for his goodnes / and publyshe his meruaylous actes amonge the men. Whan he had broke the dores of stele / & distroyed the barres of yerne.

Foles for their synnes / and wikednesses are scurged. Their mynde abhorreth all maner of meate / they are brought euen to dethes dore. And they crye vnto the lorde in to their narowe strainte / & he de­lyuereth them from their distresse.

For he commaundeth with a worde / and healeth them / and delyuereth them from distruction nowe bey [...]ge at hande.

And thā they magnifye the lorde for his goodnes / and publyshe hys maruelous actes amonge men.

They offre vnto him the sacrifyce of praise / and shewe forth his workes with gret [Page] triumphe. They entre into the see with shyppes / and labour and stryue in the brode rough waters. They also se the workes of the lorde / & his wondrefull thyn­ges in the depe sees. For at his com­maundement cometh forthe the stormye wynde / & lyfteth vp the waues of the see. And they nowe ryse vp into the heuens / and anone they fall downe into the dep­thes / so that their hertes are clene gone. They are throwē here and there / they ar tossed / they rele lyke dronken men / they ar at their wyttes ende. And they crye vnto the lorde in this narowe straint / and he thorow his helpe delyuereth them out of their distresse. For the stormy wynde auoideth / that the see myght be caume & her waues might be styll Than ar they glad that they are at rest / and he leadeth them forth vnto their pleasaunt hauen. And thā magnifye hey the lord for his goodnes / & publishe his meruelous actes amonge the men. And they extoll him in the congregation of the people / they prayse him in the presens of the elders. He that turneth the moyst and frutefull soyle into a drye deserte / & caryeth away waters from the thristy erth.

And brīgeth frutefull soyle into barons for the offences of the dwellers therin. [Page] Bringeth it so to passe / that the drie de­serte be turned agayn in to moyst soyle / & waters boyle forth of y ^e chyrsty groūde. And there than setteth he these hongry and famisshed men / they prepare them cyties to be inhabited. They sowe the feldes / they plante the vynyardes / & they make frute and encrese of corne.

He blesseth them and they ar encresed excedyngly / their catall fayle nat.

And agayn / they are mynyshed / and cast downe with barones / disease / & sicknes. He maketh hygh princes to be of no re­putacyon / and he maketh them to erre be wyde and strange places.

But in the meane season he lyfteth vp y ^e pore man out of trouble / and maketh hī an housholde lyke a flocke of shepe.

The rightwyse shall feare & be glad / & al men gyuē to shrewdenes shall stope their mouthes. Who is wyse? let him obser­ue & marke these thynges / & he shall par­ceyue the goodnesse of the lorde.

PAratum cor. My herte is full set both to playe and to synge a songe [Page] with my tonge. Come on Psaltery and harpe / for by & by shall I set you in tune. I shall magnifye the amonge the people (oh lorde / and shall prayse the amonge y ^e nacions. For thy goodnes is so gret y ^t it passeth the heuēs and thy faythfulnes also / y ^t it lyfteth vp it self vnto y ^e cloudes Exalte thy selfe aboue y ^e heuens oh god / and thy glorious beaute ouer all therth. That thy welbeloued might be in saue­garde / preserue me with thy right hande and graunt me. God hath expressed his mynde from his secrete holy place / I shall be gladde / and deuyde Shecem / and shall meete out the valey of Succoth. Gilead is myne / Menasheh is myne / E­phraim is my chefe stronge holde / Iehu­dah is my kyngdome. Moab shalbe subdued vnto me / as a caldren in the which I wyll wasshe my fete. Edom shall be vnto me lyke a vyle place / wherin I wyl cast a waye my shoes / vpon Philistea wil I take my pleasure. Who shall lede me in to the stronge defensed cytie? who shal lede me vnto Edom? Uerily euyn thou god whiche repellest vs / and woldest nat ones go forth with vs among our host. Helpe thou now vs & delyuer vs frō our enemyes / for vayne is the helpe of men. In god we shall strongely preuaile / for it [Page] is he that shall trede downe our enemys.

DEus laudē. God in whō I reioyse and glory / holde nat thy self fro me For the vngodly haue opened their mouthes agaynst me / & crafty deceyuers haue comuned w ^t me / but with a lyenge tonge. They besege me with odious cōmunica­cion: & bete me downe without cause. For that I loued them / they hated me agayn / and yet I pray for them.

They quitte me euell for good / & hatered for loue. Set some vngodly ruler vpon him / and lette some cruell aduersarye be his superior. So that whan he shall come into iugement / he myght go forth lyke a condemned wretche / and his owne tale for his delyueraunce mought condē ne him. Let his tyme be shorte / and another redy to take his offyce.

Let his chyldren be yong and fatherles and his wyfe a carefull wydowe.

Let his chyldren be wandryng beggers wretched crauers heuyly / for their lyuīg [Page] put out of their pore cotage.

Lette the bribynge vsurers catche what so euer he hath / and strange men dispoy­ [...]e tho thynges whiche he had goten with great labour. Let there be none to pyte and to helpe hym / neither one y ^t wyll fa­uour & socour his yong fatherles chyldrē Let his yssue be cut of / and his name be done awaye in one genetatyon.

Let the vnrightwysenes of his fathers be brought in mynde before god / and let nat the synnes of his mother be forgotē. But let them be before the lorde euer / & their memoriall be caste out of therthe. Bicause he thought nat to do mercy / but persecuted & vexed the poore afflicte man to sley hym broken in hert.

He delyted in cursyng / let it therfore fall vpon hym selfe / he turned him from bles­syng / let it therfore be ferre from him. Let him be wrapped in cursynges / as in his clothes / & let them synke in to him lyke water / & in to his very bones like oyle Let cursynge be as his garment wher­with he be clothed / & as his gyrdle wher­with he be euermore gyrte.

Let this be the rewarde from the lorde / vnto these men whiche are agaynst me / and speke hurte vpon my soule.

But thou art y ^e lorde / oh lorde / dele with [Page] me for thy names sake / for fauorable is thy goodnesse delyuer thou me.

For I am scourged and poore / and my herte laboreth and faynteth within me. I vanisshe awaye lyke a glyding shadow and am hunted vp frō place to place lyke a locust. My knees folde vnder me for lacke of meate / my flesshe is gone / my fatnesse is lost. I was a laughynge stocke to as many as se me / they wagged their heddes at me. Helpe me lorde / my god / kepe me for thy mercyes sake.

Let them knowlege y ^t this is thy hande and that thou / oh lorde / haste done thys thīge. Let thē curse / but blesse thou / let them ryse agaynst me / but to their owne cōfusyon / but yet let thy seruant reioyse. Let my aduersaryes be lased in with shame / and couerde with confusyon lyke as with a cloke. I shall magnyfy the lorde dilygently with my mouth / I shall pray­se him among many. For he wyll stan­de at the poore mānes right hāde / to kepe his soule from tyrauntes in authoritye.

DIxit dominus. The lorde said vnto me / lorde / syt on my right hande vntyl I make thyn enemys thy fote stole The lorde shall bringe forth thy mighty impery frō Syon / exercyse thou thy po­wer in the myddes of thyne enemyes. Thy people shall present themself vnto the welwyllynge / in suche tyme as thou shalt declare thy power in the cyte / in thy noble & holy cleren [...]s / euyn thy yongons from their mothers wombe shall be there present / as thycke as the fressh mornīge dewe. The lorde swore / & he shal nat re­pente him / thou arte the offerer ones for euer to offre thyn owne selfe / accordynge as it was fygured in Melchizedech. The lorde beyng euer at thy right hande shall smyte downe euen the kīges in time of his wrath. He shall execute iugement vpon the gentyles / & fyll all places with their deed caryons / it is he y ^t shall smyte downe the heed that raygneth so wyde. But of the troublous water must he first drinke by the waye / therfore / than after shall he extolle and lyfte vp his heed.

[Page]COnfitebor. I shall surely magnify the lorde w ^t all my hert ī the coūsell of the rightwyse / & in the congregatyon. Excedynge great are the workes of the lorde / which serched dilygently and well thought vpon / a man shall fynde in them what soeuer he shall desyre. What so euer he doth it is solempne & ful of maie­sty / & his rightwysnes abydeth for euer. He hath brought it to passe that there shall be a memoriall of his myracles / the lorde he is gentle / gracyouse / and redy to haue mercy. He hath gyuen a proye to his worshippers: he hath remembred his promyse into many worldes.

He declareth to hys people / withe howe great power his workes were done / euen whan he gaue thē the herytage of the gē tyles. What soeuer he hath done bi his power / thei ar faithfulnes & equyte / what soeuer he commaundeth it is faythfull. They are made faste to abyde in to euery age: for they are done of trewe faythful­nesse and right iugemente.

He hath sente redemption to his people / he hath cōmaunded that his couenaunte shuld be kept holy īto euery worlde / holy and to be feared is his name.

The begynnynge of wisedom is the fere of the Lorde / they sauoure righte holye [Page] that gyue dilygence to do his commaun­dementes / the prayse of these men conty­nueth euerlastynge.

BEatus vir qui ti. Blessed is that mā that worshippeth the lorde / and in his cōmaūdemētꝭ is ernestly occupied. His issue shalbe in great power in therth the generatiō of the rightwyse shall pro­sper. Plētuousnes & riches ar ī his house / and his rightwysnes stādeth for euer. To the desyrers of riȝt he maketh lyght to springe in derknes / for it is he y ^t is graciouse / bente vnto mercy / and rightwyse. A good mā shall deale fauorably & frely he wil dispose his goodes with iugemēt. For he shall nat slyde to fall for euer / a rightwysman shalbe in ꝑpetuall remem­braunce. Whan he shall here afflyction to be at hande / he shall nothynge feare / for his herte is confirmed / that is to saye stayed in the lorde.

His hert is vnderset / he shal nat fere / vn­tyll he se his desyer fall vpō his enemys. He distributeth & gyueth forth to y ^e pore nedy / his rightwisnesse abydeth for euer [Page] his power shall be exalted with dignitye. All this shall the vngodlye se / and haue indygnacyon / he shall grynne w ^t his teth & shall consume him self / for the vngodly verily shalbe dysapoynted of his desyer.

LAudate pueri. Praise ye seruātes of the lorde god / praise ye the name of the lorde. Let the name of the lorde be sprede in this tyme / & into all worldes to come. Frō the sōne risynge vnto the downe fallynge / the name of the lorde be praysed. High is the lord aboue all na­tiōs / his beautifull glory is aboue heuēs Who maye be compared to the lorde our god / euen he that ruleth on highe?

I meane him whiche so humbleth him selfe / that he wolde se all thynges bothe in heuen & erth. Which lyfteth vp the pore frō the dust / & exalteth the nedy frō the donge. To set him with the beste / euyn with the chefe of his people. Whiche so restoreth the baren / that she hath an house full / and maketh her a glad mother of many chyldren. Prayse ye the lorde.

IN exitu. Whan Israell came oute of Egypt / the house of Iacob / from the people of strange tonge.

Iuda was goddes holy people / & Israel was y ^e folke ouer whō he wold haue rule The see sawe the hoste of god come & she gaue backe / Iordayne fled & gaue place. The mountayns scipped lyke wethers / & the hylles lyke the lāmes of the flocke. What ayled the thou see thus to flye? & thou Iordane / why goest thou backe? What meane ye moūtains thus to sprīge wethers? & ye hylles to play lyke lāmes. At the presens of the lorde the erth must nedes trēble & feare / ye & that at the p̄sēs of the god of Iacob. For he bryngeth the harde rock into a ponde of water / euē the very stonne into plentuous springes.

NOn nobis domine. Nat to vs lor­de / nat to vs / but vnto thy name gy­ue the glory and prayse / for thy mercy / [Page] and for thy trouthes sake.

Wherfore shulde the gentyls say / where is nowe their god? Whā our god is in y ^e heuēs / he doth what soeuer lyketh him. Their images are but golde and syluer / euyn the worke of mannes hande.

They haue mouthes & yet speke thei nat eyes & se nat / eares and here nat / nose and smell nat. They haue handes and no­thynge fele they / fete and goo nat / withe their throte make they no noyse.

Unto these Idoles are th [...]y lyke y ^t make them / and as many as trust vnto them. But Israhell trust thou in the lorde / for he helpeth them and is their shelde.

Ye / of the house of Aharon / se y ^t ye trust in the lorde / for he is their helpe & their shelde. Ye worshippers of the lorde / se that ye truste in the lorde / for he is to thē helpe and defender.

The lorde wyll haue vs in mīde / it is he that wyll do good / he wyll do good to y ^e house of Israell / & to the house of Aarō. He wyll be benefyciall to y ^e worshippers of the lorde / as well to the lytell as to y ^e great. The lorde might encrease his good mynde toward you / towarde you & towarde youre chyldren.

Ye ar they to whom the lorde doth good which hath made heuen and the erth.

[Page]The heuēs / the veri heuens ar the lordes but the erth hath he gyuen to rhe childrē of mē. The dede in no maner of wyse shall prayse the lorde / neyther they that go downe to the place of sylence.

But we shall magnifye and prayse the lorde / from this tyme in to euerlastynge. ❧ Prayse ye the lorde.

DIleri. I loue the lorde for he hath herde me / he hath herde the depe de­syers of my herte. He bowed down his eares vnto me / wherfore whyles I lyue shall I call vpon him.

The sorowfull snares of dethe helde me strayte / strayte anguysshes hampered me in / anguisshe and afflyction founde me. But yet the name of the lord I called v­pō I beseche the lorde delyuer my soule. The lord our rightwyse god is prone vnto fauour / he is redy & bente vnto mercy. The lorde kepeth y ^e pore sīpleōs / I was full poore & full of care / and he saued me. Turne the my soule vnto thy rest / for the lorde hath rewarded the. For thou hast delyuerd my soule from deth / myne eyes from teares / and my fete from slydynge. [Page] I shall continue and dwell before the lorde amonge the lyuynge men.

I beleued / and therfore muste I nedes speke / but I was fore scurged therfore. So that I thought & sayd with my selfe whan I fled so hastely / euery mā is a lyer What shal I gyue agayn to the lorde / for all the benefytes which he hath gyuē me I shall take the cuppe in the thankefull fyft for the helpe brought me / and I shal call vpon the helpe of the lorde.

Nowe shall I performe my vowes vnto the lorde in the presens of all his people. Precious is the deth of his sayntes / in the eyes of the lorde.

Ye verily lorde / for I am thy seruant / I am thy seruāt / & the sonne of thy hande mayde / euen thou hast losed my bondes. Unto the shall I make the sacryfyce of prayse / & the name of the lorde shall I cal vpon. Nowe shall I performe my vo­wes / before al his people.

In the fore porches of the house of y ^e lorde / in the myddes of thy Ierusalem.

LAudate dominū oēs. Prayse ye y ^e lorde / all gentyls / magnifye him al nacions. For his mercy is sprede ouer / [Page] vs / and the faithfulnes of the lorde stan­deth for euer.

COnfitemini. Magnifye ye the lorde for he is gratious / & his mercy endureth for euer. Let Israell now ma­gnifye hī / for his me [...]cy ēdureth for euer. Let the house of Aharon magnifye him / for his mercy endureth for / euer.

Let as many as feare the lorde magni­fye him / for his mercy endureth for euer. Whan I was in a greuous straynte / I called vpon the lorde) and he graunted to set me at large. The lorde standeth on my syde / I shall nat feare what so euer man maye do vnto me. The lorde stan­deth on my syde with my helpers / and I shall se my desyre vpon thē that hate me. It is beter for one to cōmytte him self to the tuicion & defence of the lorde / than to mānes defence.

It is better to put our confydence in the lorde / than in men be they neuer so great Whan all the gētyles beseged me on euery syde / well sayde I / in the name of the lorde / for I shall cut them away.

[Page]They cōpassed me in / ye / they beset me in round about / well sayd I / in the name of the lorde / for I shall cutte them away. They swarmed about me lyke bees / and inuaded me as fersly as fyer y ^t drie thornꝭ but they were sone quenched / for I sayde well / in the name of the lorde I shall cut thē awaye. I was cast with great vyo­lence redy to haue fallen / but the Lorde sustayned and helpte me.

The lorde is my strēgth & the very same whom I prayse / it is he that is my sa­uynge helthe. The voyce of triumph / & of men ioyfully publysshynge theire sa­uynge helpe nowe broughte vnto theym / is in the tabernacles of the ryghtwyse / for the right hāde of the lorde hath broȝt it so mightely to passe. The right hāde of the lorde is exellent high / the right hā de of the lorde hath brought it so mightely to passe. I shall nat dye but lyue / and shall publysshe the workes of the lorde. He chastysed him with greuouse & ernest chastemute / but yet he betoke me nat to deth. Open ye vnto me the gates of the company of rightwysemen / and I shall enter in at them and magnifye the lorde. This is the gate of the lorde / the right­wyse shall enter in therat.

I shall magnifye the for thou hast graū ­ted [Page] me / & hast brought me a sauīge helpe. The stone which the builders opprobri­ously casted away / is made an hed corner stone Of the lorde this is done / and this same thynge is a myracle in oure mynde. This is y ^t same day which the lorde hath made / let vs be glad and reioyse therin. I besech the / lorde / nowe helpe vs / I beseche the lorde make vs nowe.

Well happen it to that man which is co­mē in the name of y ^e lorde / we shall praye for your welthe to happen vnto you frō the house of the lorde.

The lorde is strōge / & he wyl make light to shyne vpon vs / tye youre sacrifyces to be offred / euyn to the altaris endes with cordes. It is thou that arte my god and I shall magnifye the / thou arte my god / and I shall exalte the.

Magnifye ye the lorde for he is gracious and his mercy endureth for euer.

Ad dominū cum. Whan I was in strayte anguisshe I called vpon the lorde and he graunted me.

Lorde delyuer my soule from lyēge lyp­pes / and from a dysceytfull tonge.

What auauntageth it the / or what good bringeth it the / thou lyenge man / thy deceytfull tonge? Oh / sharpe arowes of y ^e [Page] strōge archer / & hote consumyng ienipe [...] coles. Helas that I am thus longe holden in exyle amonge these false and cruell folke of Meshec / and must yet dwell styl with the chorlysshe nacion of Kedar. All to lōge hath my soule taryed amōge these vyolent men / whiche hate pease. I studye for pease / but whan I speake of pease to theym / by and by are they styrred to battayle.

LEuaui oculos. I lyfte vp my eyes into the hylles / from whence helpe might come vnto me. My helpe cometh frō the lorde / the maker of heuens & erth. He shall nat suffre thy fete to slyde / ney­ther he beynge thy keper shall slepe.

Lo / neyther wyll he slepe / nor yet ones wynke that kepeth Israhell.

The lorde is thy keper / the lorde is thy defence / and is euer at thy right hande. The sōne shall nat smyte the by day nei­ther yet the mone by night.

For y ^e lorde shall kepe the from all euyll ye / he shall kepe thy soule.

The lorde shall kepe both thy outgoinge and thy incommynge / frome thys tyme [Page] vnto euerlastynge.

LEtatus sū. I was right glad whā mē sayd vnto me / let vs go vnto y ^e house of the lorde. Our fete shall stande faste in thy gates / O Ierusalem.

Ierusalem is buylded goodly lyke a cyte well framed to gyther in her selfe.

That thyther might ascende the trybes euē the trybes of y ^e lorde to magnifye the name of the lorde / for so was it cōmaū ­ded vnto Israel by goddes owne mouth. For there were ordeined and holden the seates of iugement / euyn the iugement seates of the house of Dauyd.

Praye ye for the felycitye of Ierusalem / the louers of the might prospere.

They mighte prospere w ^tin thy walles / they might prospere within thy houses. For thy brothers and thy neighbours sakes / shall I nowe pray for thy felycite. For the houses sake of y ^e lorde oure god I shall praye for thy welthe.

[Page]ADte leuaui. Unto the lyfte I vp my eyes / which rulest in heuyns Beholde / for as the seruauntes eyes are euer vpon their maisters / & the maydens waytinge vpon her maisters / euyn so are our eyes lokynge vp vnto the lorde / oure god / vntyll he haue mercy vpon vs

Haue mercy vpon vs lorde / haue mercy vpon vs / for we are out of measure fylled with ignominy. Our soule is fylled out of measure w ^t scornes & derisyon of these welthy riche men / & with ignominy and shame of these arrogaunt & proude men.

NIsi quia. Except the lord had ben with vs (lette Israell nowe speke. Excepte the lorde had bene with vs / whā these men rose agaynste vs.

Without doute (their wrath thus kīdled agaynst vs / they had deuoured vs quick. Waters had wrapped vs in w ^t their wa­ues / the floude had gone ouer our soule. The troublouse floude of these importu­ne men / had ron ouer our soules.

But praysed be the lord which hath nat gyuen vs ī to their tethes for their proy. Our soule is delyuered lyke the birde frō [Page] the snare of the fouler / the snare is brokē and we are escaped. Our helpe cometh thorowe the name of the lorde / whyche hath made the heuens and erthe.

QUi confidunt. They that stycke to the lord shal neuer stagger / but shall stāde fast for euer lyke the moūte of Siō. And lyke as Ierusalem is gyrte aboute with hylles / euen so closeth the lorde his people from this tyme vnto euerlasting. He wyll nat suffre the power of the vn­godly to oppresse the lande of the right­wyse / leste the rightwyse put forth their handes vnto any wyckednesse.

Deale thou gentely with good mē / and with men right in their hertes.

Them that swarue from the right waye vnto shrewdnes / the lorde might leade a waye with men gyuen vnto wyckednes.

[Page]IN cōuertendo. Whā the lorde shal bringe agayne vs of Syon frō cap­t [...]uyte / we shalbe lyke mē dremīge for ioy Than shall our mouthes be fylled withe laughter / and our tonges with tryumph than shall it be sayde amonge the genty­les / that the lorde hath wrought migh­tely with these men.

The lorde shall worke mightely with vs we shall be refresshed with gret gladnes. Bringe vs agayne frō captiuyte o lorde for so shalte thou fyll vs with ioye: as if thou shuldest gyue plentuouse floudes to the dwellers in the thursty south deserte. They that sowe with teares / shall reape with gladnesse. Whan they wente forth to sowe / they wente wepynge / takynge with them their seede coddes.

But whan they shall come agayne / they shall come withe grette ioye / bringynge their handes full of corne.

NIsi dūs. Excepte the lorde bylde y ^e house / the bilders therof labour but in vayne. Excepte the lorde kepe y ^e cyte / the keper therof watcheth but in vayne. [Page] It is all in vayne that ye haste your sel­ues to ryse so erly / and agayne to dyfferre your downe syttinge to eate your careful brede (excepte god gyue it all).

For it is he that thus shall gyue vnto his welbeloued / quyete slepe and plentu­ouse refection with good fode. Lo chyl­dren ar the heritage / which the lorde gy­ueth / the frute of y ^e wombe is his reward As arowes ar in y ^e handꝭ of mighty mē / euen so shalbe the chyldren of thy youth. Blessed is the man which hath his quy­uer fylled with these arrowes / for they shall nat be shamed whan they shall haue to do with their enemyes in iugement.

BEati omnes. Blessed is he who so euer worshippeth the lorde / whiche also walketh in his wayes.

For y ^u shalt eate y ^e labours of thyn own hādes / & shalt haue prosperouse encrase. Thy wyfe shall be fruytfull as the vyne tree / within the walles of thy house / thy chyldren shall stande roundabout thy ta­ble lyke the plantes of the olyue trees. Lo / thus shall that man be blessed / whi­che worshyppeth the lorde.

The lorde shall do the good frō Sion / & [Page] thou shalte delyte / beholdyng the prospe­ritie of Ierusalem all dayes of thy lyfe. And thou shalte se thy childers children and the felycitie of Ierusalem.

SEpe expugna. Greuously haue they vexed me / euyn fro my youthe / nowe let Israell speke. Greuously haue they vexed me euyn fro my youth / but yet they preueyle nat agaynst me.

Upon my backe these plowmen plowed and haue cutforth their longe vorowes. But the rightwyse lord hath cut away y ^e bondꝭ of these vngodly. They shalbe shamed & put to flyght / who so euer hateth Syon They shalbe as grasse y ^t groweth vpō y ^e house ryggꝭ / which is wethred be­fore it be pulled vp. With the which neither the reaper fylleth his hādes / nor yet the gatherer fylleth his armes.

Neither the goers forby so regarded thē as to say ones god blesse you / or we well wysshe you in the name of the lorde.

DE profundis. Fro my most depest painfull troubles / called I vpon y ^e lorde. Lorde / here y ^• me / let thy eares be attente vnto my depe desyre?

If thou shuldest loke narowly vpon oure wycdkenesses / o lorde / o lord / who might abyde the? But there is mercy with the / and therfore arte thou worshypped.

I abyde the lorde / my soule abydeth him & I tary lokīg vp alway for thy ꝓmises. My soule wayteth for the lorde / as desyrously as the watche men in the mornīge watche / desyre the day sprynge.

Let Israell wayte for y ^e lorde / for with the lorde is there mercy / & plentuouse re­dēption. And it is he that shall redeme Israell / from all his wyckednesses.

DOmine non. Lorde / my herte is nat proude / neyther loke I a lofte / I take nat stoutly vpon me in great ma­ters / neyther presume I in meruelouse thynges aboue my estate.

But verily I repressed and put my soule to sylence lyke a wainlyng from his mo­thers teate / euen lyke a wainlynge was [Page] my soule in very dede.

Let Israhell wayte and trust vpon the / lorde / from this tyme into euerlastynge.

MEmento dn̄e. O lorde remembre thou Dauid / & his afflyction also. Which swore to the lorde / and made his vowe to the mighty god of Iacob.

Sayēg / if I entre īto y ^e tabernacle of my nowne house / if I ascēde into my decked bed. If I suffre my slepe to come into myne eyes / or myne eye lyddꝭ ones to wī ­ke. Uncyll I shall fynde a place for the lorde / a mansyon for the myghty god of Iacob. I praye god I dye.

Lo / we herde of thys house in Ephrata and haue founde it in the busshye felde. We shall come into his māsyon / and shall fall downe before his fote stole. Aryse o lord / & come īto the place of thy rest / come in thou with the Arche of thy strength. Let thy sacrifycers be cled withe right­wysnesse / and thy sayntes tryumph ioy­fully. For thy seruaunt Dauides sake tourne nat a waye thy anoynted.

The lord swore vnto dauid of his trouth [Page] and shall nat reuoke it / I shall sette vpon thy feate regall one of the fruyte of thy body. If thy chyldren obserue my cou­uenaunte and my testymonyes / wythe whiche I shall instructe them / than euen their chyldren shall sytte vppon the seate regall for a longe space.

For the lorde hathe chosen Syon / it is his pleasure there to haue his seate.

This shalbe the place of my reste into all worldes / here wyll I sytte / for this seate haue I desyred. Her yerely fruyt shal I fauourably encrease / her poore nedyons wyll I satisfye with foode.

Her sacrifycers shall I cloth with helth and her sayntes shall reioyse euyn frome theyr verye hertes.

Here shall I make Dauydes impery to florisshe prosperouslye / I haue prouyded a lanterne for my anoynted.

I shall wrappe his enemyes in cōfusyon and shame: but in hym shall I florysshe the beautefull crowne regall.

ECce quam bonum. Beholde howe plesaunte and howe ioyfull a thyn­ge it is / bretherne to dwell to gyther and to be all of one mynde.

They ar lyke that precyouse good oyntement [Page] which powred vpon Aharons heed rāne downe into his berde / into the berde of Aharō / & into the skirtes of his clothꝭ. Ye this brotherly loue is lyke the dewe / whiche fell vpon the hylles of Hermon / and vpon the hylles of Syon.

For there y ^e lorde gyueth forth his bles­synge / and lyfe euerlastynge.

ECce nunc. Behold / & prayse ye the lorde all seruantes of the lorde / whiche cōtinually appere in the house of the lorde nyghtly. Lyfte vp your handes vnto y ^e holy secrete place / & prayse ye the lorde. The lorde might do the good frō Sion / which hath made the heuēs & erth

LAudate nomē. Prayse ye y ^e name of the lorde / prayse ye that are the seruantes of the lorde. Whiche appere continually ī the house of the lorde / & in the porches of the house of our god.

[Page]Prayse ye God for he is a good Lorde / prayse his name for it is gloriouse.

For god hath chosen vnto hym Iacob / euē Israell īto his owne proper people. For I haue knowen y ^t great is the lorde and our god to be greater than all god­des. What so euer lyked him / the lorde hath made in heuens and in erthe / in the sees / and in all depe waters.

Which caryeth vp cloudes from the far­thest partes of therth [...] he maketh lyghte­nynges with rayne / he leadeth forth the wyndes of his treasure houses.

Whiche smytte the firste begotten in E­gypte / bothe of man and beaste.

He sente forthe tokens and wonders in to the myddes of Egypte / agaynst Pharao and all his seruauntes.

Which smytte the most grettest nacions and slewe right valyant kynges.

As Syhon kynge of the Amorreons / and Og the kynge of Bashan / and all the kyngdomes of Chanaan.

And gaue their lāde īto an heritage / euē into heritage vnto Israell his people. Lorde / thy name is setforth for euer / and thy memoryall into all ages.

For the lorde shall auenge & delyuer his peple / which satisfyed w ^t their punishmēt shall be pleased agayne with his people. [Page] The fayned images of the gentyles are but golde & syluer [...] the workes of mēnes handes. They haue mouthes and speke nat / eyes and se nat. They haue cares and heare nat / neither is there verily any breth in their mouthes. Thei y ^t make thē ar lyke thē / & they also that truste in thē. Ye of the house of Israell praise y ^e lorde the house of Aharon prayse ye the lorde. The house of Leuy / loue ye the lorde / ye that feare the lorde loue ye the lorde.

The lorde be praysed from Syon / which hath his seate regall in Ierusalem.

Loue ye the lorde.

COnfitemini. Honour ye the lorde for he is fauorablye good / and hys mercy is sette forthe for euer.

Honour ye god whiche is the god of all goddes / for his mercy is set forth for euer Honoure ye the lorde of lordes / for hys mercy is set forthe for euer.

Whiche alone dothe the great myracles / for his mercy is set forth for euer. Which by his heuenly wytte hathe made the he­uens / for his mercy is set forth for euer. [Page] Whiche hath spred abrode therth aboue the waters / for his mercy is set forth for euer. Which hath made the great lygh­tes / for his mercy is set forth for euer. The sōne to haue the preemynence of y ^e daye / for his mercy is set forth for euer. The moone & sterres to beare rule in the night / for his mercy is set forth for euer. Which smyt y ^e Egyptiōs in their first begoten / for his mercy is set forth for euer. And led forth Israel euyn frō y ^e middes of thē / for his mercy is set forth for euer. Which cutte the redde see into tway par­tes / for his mercy is set forth for euer. And led ouer Israell thorow the myddꝭ therof / for his mercy is set forth for euer. And threwe down Pharao & his host in the red see / for his mercye is set forth for euer. Which led his people thorowe the wyldernes / for his mercy is set forth for euer. which smyt downe great kynges / for his mercy is set forth for euer.

Which slewe noble kīges / for his mercy is set forth for euer. As Sihon the kīge of the Amorrēs / for his merci is set forth for euer. And Og the kīg of Bashā / for his mercy is set forth for euer. And gaue their lāde in to an heritage / for his mercy is set forth. &c. Euē into heritage vnto Israel his seruāt / for his mercy is set. &c [Page] Which remēbred vs whan we were caste downe / for his mercy is setforth for euer. And redemed vs from our enemyes / for his mercy is set forthe. &c.

Which gyueth meate to euery thinge ly­uynge / for his mercy is set forth for euer Honoure ye the god of heuens / for hys mercy is sette forth for euer.

SUper flumina. At the ryuers of Babylon we satte downe togyther and wepte / whan we remembred Syon. Upon the salowe trees there we hanged vp our harpꝭ. Whā there they y ^t toke vs requyred songes of vs / & sayd / whan we had hāged vp our mery instrumentꝭ / sīge vnto vs some of your songes of Syon. And we answered / se / I pray you / howe shulde we synge the songes of the Lorde in a strange lande? O Ierusalem if I forget the / let my right hande forget her offyce on the harpe. Let my tonge cleue to my mouth if I remēbre the nat ye / if I [Page] preferre nat Ierusalē al myn own mirth Oh / lorde remēbre the sonnes of Aedom sayenge / in the daye of the distruction of Ierusalem / make all bare in it / distroye it / lay it wyde open euen w ^t the grounde. O cytie of Babell well worthy to be dis­troyed / blessed shall he be y ^t shall rewar­de the as thou hast rewarded vs.

Blessyd shall he be y ^t shall take thy yong babes / & throwe thē agaynst the stones.

COnfitebor. I shall magnifye the with all my herte / and shall prayse the in the presens of thy goddes.

I shall fall downe vpon my knees at thy holy temple / and shall magnifye thy na­me / for thy mercy and trouthes sake. For thou haste extolled thy name / and thy worde aboue all thynges.

In what tyme so euer I called vpon the thou grauntedest me / thou encresedest great strength in my soule.

All the kynges of the erth shall magni­fye thy o lorde / for they haue herde the decrees and plesures of thy mouth.

And their songe shall be of the ordynaū ­ces [Page] of the lorde / for excellent is the glo­ry of the lorde. For the hyghe lorde be­holdeth humble and lowely thinges / and a proude man he knoweth a farre.

If it chaunce me to be in the myddes of afflyction / yet thou wilt restore me / thou wylt stretche forth thy hāde agaynst the wrath of my enemies / and shalt preserue me with thy ryght hande.

The lorde wyll bryng all thīges to passe for me / o lorde thy mercy standeth forthe for euer / thou shalt nat forsake the wor­kes of thy handes.

DOmine probasti. Lorde thou hast serched me depely / and thou kno­west full well what I am.

Thou knowest wherfore I do sytte and wherfore I vpstande / euen my thoughtꝭ thou tryest and knowest before.

My ingoynge and downliynge to slepe thou compasest narowly / and all my ly­uynge thou foreseest clerely.

[Page]For my tonge is nat aboute to speke a worde / but anone (lorde) lo / thou kno­west it all before.

What so euer is within me / behynde and before thou hast made it / and thou haste put to thy hande to my shape.

The knowlege of this my shape is hyde fro me / & hygher than I can atteyne ther vnto. Whether shal I flye from thy spi­rit / and whether shall I flye from thy fa­ce? If I clyme vp into the heuens / ther arte thou / if I make my bed in my graue lo / yet there arte thou present.

If I take vnto me the swyfte wynges of the mornyng beames / and so in the twin clynge of an eye be conuayed into the vt­termost partes of the west see.

Euen there yet shall thy hande take me / and thy ryght hande shall set holde vpon me. I thought than that I wold be co­uerd and hyd with derkenesses / but with the / euen the nyght is all shynynge. The very derkenesses may hyde nothīg from the / ye the nyght shyneth lyke the daye / and the derkenesses ar to the euen the very lyghte.

For thou possessest my inwarde affectes and dydest facyone me in my mother bely I shall magnifye the for thou hast facio­ned me meruelously / to behold thy workꝭ [Page] ar to be merueled aboue mesure / as kno­weth my soule. My strength in my bo­nes & senowes were nat vnknowē vnto y ^e whā I shulde be made secretly in my mo­thers wombe / & knytte togyther in the lowe preuy erth. Where whā I was yet without facyon thou seest me w ^t thy eyes all my lymmes facyoned by tymes thou haddest drawen lyke as in a paper / whan there was nat one of thē yet sette full perfytly. Howe clere ar thy thoughtꝭ vnto me o god? oh / how excede they ī nombre? If I wolde nombre thē / they excede the sādes of the see / but yet I labour busely to cōsyder them / & I cleue euer vnto the. O god / I wolde it were thy pleasure to distroye hese vngodly / ye blody men a­uoyde out of my syght Which speake wyckedly agaynst the / and rayle spytful­ly vpon the / these are thy enemyes. Them that hate the oh lorde / I hate ve­rily / & I abhorrew ith great indygnatiō thē that ryse agaynste the. I hate them extremly / and repute them as enemyes. Serch me oh god / & knowe thou my hert examyne me and trye thou my pathes. And loke if I haue begōne any shrew­de waye / and leade me there out in to the waye euerlastynge.

ERipe me. Delyuer me / o lorde / frome this myscheuouse man / saue me from this vyolente man.

Which thynketh mischef in their hertes / and contynually ronne to battayle.

They haue whetted theire tonges lyke serpentes / edders venome is vnder their lyppes. Selah. Kepe me / o lorde / from the handes of this vngodlye man / saue me from this cruell man / which thinketh to supplāt me. These proude men haue set a preuy snare for me / & haue bēte their nettes / euyn by my path haue they layed their gynnes for me. Selah.

I sayde / lorde / thou arte my god / heare lorde / my depe desyers. O lorde y ^u arte my lorde my god / & my mightye sauynge helth / thou shalte defende my hed / what tyme I shall take me to armour & wepen. Lorde suffre nat the vngodli to take his pleasure on me / let nat his myscheuous entent prospcre with him lest these proude heddes be axalted. Selah.

I meane these heddes that thus besege [Page] me on euery syde / whose heuy laboure of their owne lippꝭ might ouerwhelme thē. Let colles of fyer fall vpon theym / caste them downe into the fyer pyttes / oute of the whyche they maye neuer aryse.

Let nothynge prospere in therth w ^t this busye tonged & lyenge man / let his owne mischef hunte forthe this vyolente man / vntyll it hath cast hym downe hedlynge. I knowe that the lorde wyll auenge the poore afflycte / and delyuer the nedyons. The rightwise verily shall magnify and sprede thy name / the pure in herte shall dwell in thy presens.

DOmine clama [...]i. Lorde it is thou that I call vppon / haste the to me / here me as sone as I call vpon the. Let my prayer ascende luckely in to thy syght lyke incense / let the lyftynge vp of my hādes be in y ^e stede of the euenīge sa­crifyce. Lorde / set a keper to my mouth and kepe thou dilygently the dore of my lyppes. Bowe y ^u nat my herte into any mischeuous thīge / lest I be about to commytte vngodly dedes w ^t men gyuen all to [Page] wickednes / & so eate their daynties with them. Let the rightwyse smyte me for my soules profyte / for I hadde leuer he chastyned me than the softe oyntment of thungodly shulde souple my heed. For yet do I stande instantly withe my prayer agaynste their malyce.

Let their chefe rulers be cast downe hed lynge in to stonnye places / that yet other men might beare my swete wordes.

As one that plougheth / slytteth / and deuydeth the erthe / euyn so were we sha­ken a sondre / and oure bones were scat­tered aboute oure graues.

Wherfore vnto y ^e o lorde / lorde / my eyes are lyfte vp / whan in the put I my truste powre thou nat out my soule.

Kepe me frome their snares whiche they haue bente for me / and from the trappes of thē / which ar gyuen all to wickednes. Let these vngodly fall in to their owne snares / whyles I escape for euer with other men.

[Page]UOce mea. Unto the lorde I crye / before the lorde I fell downe & ma­de my prayer. Before him I powred forthe my heuy meditacyon / before hym I layde my strayte anguysshe.

Whan my spiryte was sore tormented w ^t in my selfe / & thou knewest my way / they setted snares for me in the pathes where I went. I loked on my righthande / and I loked on my lyfte hande / & there was nat one that wolde make any knowlege to me / all refuge was taken fro me / there was nat one y ^t wolde seke to saue my lyfe I cryed vnto the / O lorde / and I sayde / thou arte my helpe / thou arte my porciō among the lyuyng men. Attende vnto my cryenge / for I am in a greuouse and wretched state / delyuer me frō my pursuers / for they haue preuayled agaynst me. Leade my soule oute of prison / that it might spreade thy name / let me be com­passed about with rightwysmen / for it is thou that shalte do me good.

DOmine exaudi. O lorde heare my prayer / lysten vnto my feruente be­sechynge for thy trouthes sake / graunte me for thy rightwysnesse.

[Page]Haue thou nat to do with thy seruaunt in iugemente / for in thy presence no man lyuenge is reputed rightwyse.

A cruell enemye verilye persecuted my soule / he hathe caste downe my lyfe in to the erth / he hath sette me in derknesse / ly­ke as men iuged to dethe.

My spirite is sore troubled within me / & my herte wexeth colde in my brest.

But at last I remembred the dayes past I consydred all thy workes / and pōdred in mynde the dedes of thy handes.

I stretched forthe my handes vnto the / my soule desyrously panted and brethed for the / I gaped for the lyke thursty erth Selah. Haste the to graunt me o lorde for my spirite fainteth / hyde nat thy face from me / onlesse I be lyke men goynge downe into their graues.

Make me shortly to heare of thy mercy a­ble goodnes / for in the do I truste / shewe me the waye wherin I maye go / for vn­to the haue I lyfted vp my soule.

Delyuer me fro my enemyes o lorde my god / for at the do I hyde my selfe.

Teache me to do thy pleasures / for y ^u art my god / thy good spirit might lede me in to the right way. For thy names sake lorde restore me / for thy rightwysnes leade my soule out of this strayt anguyshe. Ye & for thy mercyes sake all to distroye [Page] my enemyes / & shake away all that trou­ble my soule / for I am thy seruant.

BEnedictus do. Praised be y ^e lorde which fyghteth for me / which hath instructe my handes to battayle / and ler­ned my fyngers to fyghte.

Whiche is my mercy / my bulwarke / my castell / and my delyuerer / my shelde / and he in whom I truste / whiche casteth the people vnder me. O lorde / what thyng is man / that thou thus moche settest by him? what is this mortall mā that thou thus regardest him?

Man is lyke a thynge of nought / hys dayes ar but a vayne flyenge shadowe. But y ^e lorde lettith downe theuens & discendeth / he toucheth the hilles and they smoke. He casteth forth lyghtenynges and scattereth theym / he sendeth forthe his arowes and distroubleth them.

Let downe thy hande frō aboue / & dely­uer me / delyuer me from these myghtye waters & from the power of strange men. Whose mouthe speketh vayne thinges / & their riȝthāde is a riȝthāde doyng deceit. [Page] O god / I shall synge a newe dytie vnto the / with kytte and tenne stringed instru­mentes shall I synge vnto the.

Which bryngest helpe vnto kynges / whiche haste delyuered Dauyd thy seruaunt from the myscheuouse swerde.

Take me vppe and delyuer me frome the handes of strange men / whose mouthes speke vanytes / & whose ryghthande is a right hande that dothe disceyte.

That our sōnes might growe lyke well thriuīg plantes / & our daughters gorgy­ously set forthe lyke the cornerde houses might represēt the beauty of the temple. Let our garners be replenyshed with all maner of corne / & our shepe w ^t thousande folde encrese might fulfyll euery waye. Let oure oxen be stronge for draught & burden / no brekynge in / no rōnynge out no out criynge in our stretes.

Happy is that people with whom it go­eth thus / happy is that people which holdeth the lorde for their god.

EXaltabo. I shall extoll the / god / o kynge / and shall publyshe thy name thorowout all the worlde.

[Page]Contynually shall I magnifye & prayse thy name / throwout all the worldes. Great is the lorde & worthy moche pray­se / his greatnes can nat be serched. Frō age to age thy workes shalbe pray­sed / and they shal declare thy noble actes. All my mynde shall be ernestly set at all tymes to declare thy cleare and glorious fame / and also to publishe thy meruelous dedes. Men shal speke forth the mighty power of thy myracles / and I shall put them in mynde of thy myght.

Men shall shewe forthe the memoriall of thy plentuous mercy / and shall ioyfully tryumphe of thy ryghtwysnes.

The lorde is fauorable & bente vnto mercy / slowe vnto wrathe and of plentuouse goodnes. Gentle is the lorde vnto al mē and his mercyable gentelnes swimming ouer all his workes. All thy workes shall magnifye the / and thy mercy shal declare thy selfe. Men shall preache the beautefull glorye of thy kyngdome / and shall extoll thy dedes with wordes.

That they myght certifye and shewe mē his noble actes / his glorie & his clearnes Thy kyngdome is a kyngdome in to all worldes / and thy power is a power tho­rowe out all ages. The lorde stayeth who so euer slydeth, and as many as are thrust downe he lyfteth vp agayne.

[Page]The eyes of all thynges loke vp & wayte vpon the / and thou gauest them meate in tyme. Thou openest thy hande / & satis­fyest all thyngꝭ lyuyng for thy goodwyll Ryghtwyse is the lorde in all his waye / he is good in all his dedes.

Present is the lorde to as many as call vpon him / to as many as call vpon him of true belefe. To them that feare him he maketh all thinges acceptable / he heareth their erienge / and saueth them. The lorde kepeth all that loue him / and all the vngodly he wyll banyshe.

My mouth shall speke the prayse of the lorde / & euery thynge lyuynge shal sprede his holy name into all the worldes.

LAuda aīa mea. Prayse the lord my soule. I shall prayse the lorde whiles I lyue / I shal synge vnto my god / as longe as I shall haue my beynge.

Trust nat in princes which are but men / in whom there is no sauynge helth. Their breth goth forth of their bodyes / and by & by they are turned ī to their erth in the same day all their counsels perishe [Page] Hapy is he that seketh helpe of y ^e god of Iacob / & whose hope is y ^e lorde / his god. Which hath made heuens and erth / the see / and what so euer ar contayned in thē which kepeth his promyse for euer. Which auengeth men vexed wrongfully whiche gyueth meate to the hungry / it is the lorde that loseth men in holde. The lorde gyueth lyghte to the blynde / the lorde lyfteth vp men oppressed / it is the lorde that loueth the rightwyse. The lorde kepeth stāgers / he lyfteth vp the yonge fatherles & the wydowes / and the purposꝭ of thūgodly he turneth vp so downe. The lorde shalbe kynge for euer whiche is thy god / o Sion / in to al ages.

Prayse ye the lorde.

LAudare dn̄m. Prayse ye the lorde for it is a plesaunt and a ioyefull thinge to prayse our god / there is no thinge so to be desyred as the prayse of hym. The lorde shall restore Ierusalē / & shall gather to gyther the scattered out lawes of Israell. He healeth the broken in herte / and caseth their heuy labours. He nombreth the sterres / & gyueth namꝭ to them all. Grace is our lorde & grace is [Page] his power / his wyt may no mā cōprehēde The lorde lyfteth vp y ^e meke lowlyōs / & y ^e proude vngodlye he casteth downe to the groūde. Sīge ye to the lord w ^t thākes giuynge / synge ye vnto our god w ^t harpe. Which ouerledeth the heuens with clou­des / and prepayreth rayne for the erthe / and bringeth forth grasse in the hylles. Which gyueth cat all their foode / & meat also to the rauyns chekens calling for it. He delyteth nat in strength & stronge stedes / neyther hath he pleasure in y ^e trum­pets of men. But his plesure is in them that feare him / & truste vpon his mercy. Praise y ^u the lorde o Ierusalē / prayse thi god o Siō. For it is he y ^t shal strēgthen the barres of thy gates / & shall lade thi cytesens within the with plētuouse gyftes. He endueth thy costes aboute the with pease / and satisfyeth the with the mooste purest floure of the wheate.

He sendeth forth his pleasures in to the erth / his cōmaūdemētes rōne forth swiftly. He gyueth downe snowe lyke wulle / & the hore froste he scatreth lyke asshes. He casteth forthe his hayle lyke gobbetꝭ of bred / who maye abyde his colde? He sendeth forth his worde and melteth them awaye / he ledeth backe his wynde / and the waters droppe downe.

It is he y ^t tolde his pleasurs to Iacob / & [Page]vis ordynance and decrees vnto Israhel. With no natiō hath he thus delt / neither to any other dyd he publyshe his decrees.

LAudate dn̄m. Prayse the lorde ye heuēly mīdes / prayse ye hī all y ^t are aboue. Praise him all aungels / prayse him all his hoste roundaboute hym. Praise him sonne and mone / praise hym all bright and shynynge sterres.

Prayse him the mooste highest heuens / and ye waters that ar aboue the heuens. Praise ye the name of y ^e lorde / for he made all thīges w ^t a worde. And hath made them to stāde fast into all worldꝭ / he hath gyuen thē a lawe whiche they breke nat. Prayse ye y ^e lorde al creatures of therth / dragōs & all depe waters. Fyer / hayle / snowe / yse / stormy wīdes / doing his com­maundement. Mountayns and all high hylles / frutefull trees / & all cedre trees. All wylde bestes & tame / all thīges y ^t crepe / & fethered foules. Kinges of therth & all peple / princes & all rulers of therthe. Syngle men & maydēs / old men & yonge prayse the name of the lorde for it is only hyghe and sprede ouer erth and heuens. He shall lyfte vp y ^e power of his peple / it [Page] becometh his sayntes to praise hī / which haue professed hym / euyn Israhell hys owne people which cometh vnto him.

CAntate. Singe ye to the lorde w ^t a newe dytie / his prayse shall be in the congregation of the sayntes.

Israhell shall reioyse of his maker / and the cytesens of Syon of their kynge. They shal prayse his name with trōpet / synge ye vnto him with taberet & harpe. For the lorde well pleased w ^t his people shall or nowrne lowlions with his helpe. Saītes shall reioyse euen frō their hertꝭ / & the nobles shal triūphe ī their couches. The exaltyng of god is in their fhrotes / and in their handes a twoedged swerde. To take vengeaūce vpon the gentyles / & to correcte the people. To bynde their kynges in chaines / & their most noblest rulers in feters of yerne▪ To execute iugement among them as it is writen / this glory shalbe vnto all that ar his saintes.

LAudate do. in sane. Prayse hī that kepeth his resydence in his secrete holy place / prayse hī that reigneth in the [Page] firmamente / the seate of his power. Prayse hī for his strength / prayse hī for his almightines. Praise him w ^t sown of trumpets / praise hī with lutes & harpes. Prayse him with tympany and taberet / prayse him with orgayns and pypes. Prayse him withe softe claricymbales / prayse him with loude claricymbales. What soo euer thynge is endued wythe breathe / let it prayse the lorde.