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.

DIXI custodiam vias meas: vt non delinquam in lingua mea. ¶ I sayd .i. sall kepe my wayes: that .i. trespas not in my tonge. ¶ The haly man, of his goed fame suffrand enuy & chalange of ill men. & bakbiters, thynkis amange ill men to be still, that he say nathynge vnconabilly. and thus he bigynns, .i. sayd in my hert, whare wisemen vmthynkis thaim are thai speke, .i. sall kepe my wayes, that is my warkis and my wordis, that .i. trespas not in my tonge with ydell wordis or folys. that is hard: for oure tonge is in wate, forthi lightly it slippis, as we doe when we ga in sklither way. he is perfit that synnes not in his tonge.