[PSALM XV.]
CONSERVA me domine quoniam speraui in te: dixi domino, deus meus es tu, quoniam bonorum meorum non eges. ¶ Kepe me lord for .i. hoped in the; i. sayd til lord my god thou ert, for of my goeds thou has na nede. ¶ The voice of crist in his manhed, prayand til the fadere, and sayand. lord fadere kepe me ymange perils, for i. hopid in the noght in me. i said til the, my god thou ert. in that at i. am man, for thou has na ned of my goeds. bot i. haf of the all that i. hafe. here is the vile pride of men confoundid, that wenes that thai hafe oght of thaim self bot synn.
2. Sanctis qui sunt in terra eius: mirificauit omnes vo|luntates meas in eis. ¶ Til halighis the whilke ere in his land; he selcouthid all my willes in thaim. ¶ Noght til wickid, bot til halighis, clen in saule and departid fra erthly besynes. the whilke ere in his land. that is. thai haf festid thaire hope in the land of heuen, and rotid in luf: the whilk hope is as ankere in stremys of this warld: he selkouthid all my willes. that is wondirful he made my willes of dyynge and rysynge, sett and fulfild in thaim. that is in thaire profit, whare in thai felid what it profitid thaim, my meknes that .i. wild dye, and my myght to rise.
3. Multiplicate sunt infirmitates eorum: postea accele|rauerunt. ¶ Many faldid ere thaire seknesis; and sithen thai hastid. ¶ That is at say, thai knew that thai ware fulseke in body and saule. and sythen thai hastid thaim till the leche: for he that felis him seke he sekis remedy. ill men wenes thare saule is noght seke, for thi thai dye in thaire synn.
4. Non congregabo conuenticula eorum de sanguinibus: nec memor ero nominum eorum per labia mea. ¶ I sall noght gadire the couentis of tha of blodis; na .i. sall be menand on thaire names thurgh my lippes. ¶ That is at say. the couentis of haly men my seruantes sall noght fleschly be bot gastly: for blode bitakyns synn and vnclennes that thai ere in. that folous thaire flesch. and the vanyte of thaire blode. that ere comen of