The Psalter, or Psalms of David and certain canticles / with a translation and exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole ; ed. from manuscripts by the Rev. H. R. Bramley ... With an introduction and glossary.

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The Psalter, or Psalms of David and certain canticles / with a translation and exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole ; ed. from manuscripts by the Rev. H. R. Bramley ... With an introduction and glossary.
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Oxford :: Clarendon press,
1884.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- English (Middle English) -- 1884.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Latin. -- 1884.
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"The Psalter, or Psalms of David and certain canticles / with a translation and exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole ; ed. from manuscripts by the Rev. H. R. Bramley ... With an introduction and glossary." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/AJF7399.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.

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SALUUM me fac deus, quoniam defecit sanctus: quoniam diminute sunt veritates a filijs hominum. ¶ Saf me make god, for haloghe failid; for lessid ere sothfastnessis fra sonnes of

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men. ¶ The voice of a haly man that sees the vanyte of the warld multiplid, and therfor dredis, and for mykilnes of the peril cries. saf me make god. and whi dred .i., for haloghe failed, that is ther is na haly man funden in this warld. whare swa many ere of ill men. and therfor says he thus: noght that we trow that na haly man be in the warld, bot for vnnethes ere any funden that failes noght fra halynes, and that is for sothfastnessis ere lessid: that makis halynes to faile. for nane is haly bot that is sothfast in thoght and word and dede. fra sonnes of men, for thaire synn, that makes the giftis of god to be distroid & lessid fra thaim.

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