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.

neghid till hell. ¶ That is, J am full of wrichednes & paynes of this worlde, & sufferand in [S. U2 om.] my body: alsso my sawle suffers: the fleshe maye not thoile payne withouten the sawle, but the sawle maye 'thoile payne' [S om.] withouten the fleshe: & my life that was gevine till lustes of erthe, & neghonde was [S. U2 was nighe.] till hell er .i. [S. U2 they.] wer turned till god. and yet.

4. Estimatus sum cum descendentibus in lacum: factus sum sicut homo sine adiutorio inter mortuos liber. ¶ J am wenyd with lightand in the lake: maide I am as man withouten helpe I mange dede free. ¶ That is, J am halden with them that demes ouer arely suche as thai are that faules in the lake of damna|tion, & J am as man withouten helpe, that is, thai deme me vnworthy to be helped, nought forthi amange deade men in saule thorugh dedely sinne. J am fre through thi [S. U2 om.] grace, for J fele the that is life of my sawle livand in me.

5. Sicut vulnerati dormientes in sepulcris, quorum non es memor amplius: & ipsi de manu tua repulsi sunt. ¶ As wounded slepand in sepulchers, of the whilke thou is no mare myndand: & thei oute of thi hand are pute. ¶ As wounded with sinnes, slepand, that is, restand in sepulchers, that is, graven in ther lusts, & stinkand, whaim it semes as thou had whitely [S qwitly.] for|getten, & they are put out of thy hande, intill the devils poure.

6. Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori: in tenebrosis & in vmbra mortis. ¶ Thai set me in the nether lake: in [S. U2 of.] mirky stedes & in shado of dede. ¶ That is, thai did me till maste wrechednes [S. U2 wyckednes.] that thei mought: in mirky stedes, that is, with ypo|crites, thai helde me worthi to be, for thei in mirke does ill dedes, & in shado of dede, that is, dede of wickednesse.

7. Super me confirmatus est furor tuus: & omnes fluctus tuos induxisti super me. ¶ On me confirmed is thi wraith: & all thi strems thou brought on me. ¶ That is, impayable semes thi wraith, for J suffer soe mykle anguyshe: & thi strems, that is, stormes of persicution, thou brought on me, 'for ekynge of my wo [S. U2 om.] .'

8. Longe fecisti notos meos a me: posuerunt me ab|hominacionem sibi. ¶ ffer thou did fra me my knawne: thai set me wlatyng till thaim. ¶ That is, my frends of whom J wende