4. Quoniam melior est miserecordia tua super vitas: labia mea laudabunt te. ¶ ffor better is thi mercye aboven lifes: my lippes sall love the. ¶ All this J doe, for thi mercye, that is, the life of grace that thou gives through thi mercye, is better than almens lifis [U2 life is. S lyfe is.] . thof thai ware lange & in ese: the whilke wicked men cheses, & leves thi mercy: but my lippes sall love the, till my neghbour, of whaym J am bysy, that he were saufe.
5. Sic benedicam te in vita mea: & in nomine tuo leuabo manus meas. ¶ Soe J shall blesse the in my life: & in thi name J shall lifte [S. ins. 'vp.'] my hands. ¶ And [S. U2 &.] as thou haiste geven me throughe grace to love the, soe J shall blesse the in my life, that is, J shall give till thi mercy, my life, in the which I sall [S chill.] love the, & in thi name, that is, in honor of thi name Jhū, I sall lifte [S. ins. 'vp.'] my hands in prayers & in good warks.
6. Sicut adipe & pinguedine repleatur anima mea: & labijs exultacionis laudabit os meum. ¶ As with grese & with fatnes, filled be my saule: & with lippes of joynge, loue [S. U2 laude.] sall my mouthe. ¶ By gresse is vnderstonden [S. U2 vnderstand.] wisdome, by fate|nesse strenghe of goste & gladnes in god, that makes men wele [S. U2 makethe man well.] chered in all thair warks. he that thus is fillid, he shall with lippes of joynge love [S ins. 'god.'] , that is, in [S. U2 om.] clene consciens & syker, 'laughe, as ay ioyand' [U2 joyinge. S whos felow ay is ioy &.] in christ.
7. Si memor fui tui super stratum meum, in matutinis meditabor in te: quia fuisti adiutor meus. ¶ If J was myndefull of the [U2 ins. '&.' S om.] of my bede, in morninges I sall thinke in the: for thou was my helper. ¶ That is, if I had the in my thought in reste of ese, that noe welthe gerte me forgit the, than in mornyngs, that is, in good works & in the light of grace, I sall thinke in the, for he that can nought thinke on him in reste, in his warke he holdes nought his thought in him.
8. Et in velamento alarum tuarum exultabo, adhesit anima mea post te: me suscepit dextera tua. ¶ And in hillinge of thi wings J shall ioy, my sawle drow [S. U2 drawithe.] after the: me vptoke thi right hande. ¶ Thou is my helper in perles, J shall also ioy in good dedes in thi hilling: for J am thi bridde, & if thou hill
