DEUS deus meus: ad te de luce vigilo. ¶ God my god: til the fray the light I wake. ¶ Rightwismen, hetid in the anguisse of this life, cries & sayes, god of all throughe might, that is my god through love & devotion speciallie, to the J wake, fra light, that is, fra the tyme that the light of thi grace be in me, that excites fra night of sinne & slepe of slawnesse, and makes me wake to the in delite of love & swetnes in saule. thei wake to god that setts all thair thought on god, & forgets the warlde: thei slepe to god that setts thair herte on any creature, lovande the warlde. for thi he saies that he wakes to god, sclepand [S U2 that slepeth.] to the warld, nought lovand that that is of the werlde. by the letter we sall aforce vs to wake at morne, in prayers & devotions, what tyme christ through the ensample of his resurrection gave vs hope to rise: for thy this salme is ay songen in the lauds. J wake to the & that geres me thriste in saule & bodie: & that is,
2. Sitiuit in te anima mea: quam multipliciter tibi caro mea. ¶ Jn the thristede [S. U2 thristeth.] my saule: how manyfaulde my fleshe till the. ¶ Other men covets other thinge, but my [S. U2 in sale.] saule covets nought but the, my saule thristede [S. U2 thristeth.] for many skiles, but 'how manifolde' [S for mo.] my flesh: that is, for the manyfolde defaute it suffers, for it covets the resurrection, when it sall be in all ese: and hir it threstes till god, of him sekand necessaries.
3. In terra deserta inuia & inaquosa, sic in sancto apparui tibi: vt viderem virtutem tuam & gloriam tuam. ¶ In lande desert, [U2 ins. '&.'] withouten waye & withouten water. soe in [S. U om.] haly J aperd to the: that J saghe [U2 sange. S sow.] thi vertue and thi joye. ¶ Here aught vs for to thriste, in this warlde, that is called land of wildernes, for it is withouten the wonnyng of haly men: & with [S. U2 om.] outen the waye ledand till heven, & withouten water of grace: this is ane ill deserte, and ane orible, but god haues mayde here waye till his lovers, & sent them water of his lair. soe I apperid to the in haly desier, for no man maye come to god but if he faile in ill. That J saghe [U2 sought. S sow.] thi vertue, that is, thi might, & thi ioye: that is, J vnderstode: as whasay, thou sawe me, that i might se the.
