hodie: pater filijs notam faciet veritatem tuam. ¶ Lifand lifand he sall shrife til the as .i. this day: fadire sall make knawyn til sunnys thi sothfastnes. ¶ Lifand in body. and lifand in grace. he sall shrife til the, louand as .i. this day, that is, in this present, loue the. for ilke goed fadire bodily or gastly, lifand in drede of god, sall make knawyn till his sunnys thi sothfastnes. that is, the [S. U thi.] sothfastnes of trouth, and the lare of cristis [S cristens. M cristen.] mannys religyon.
15. Domine saluum me fac: & psalmos nostros canta|bimus cunctis diebus vite nostre in domo domini. ¶ Lord make me safe: and owre psalmys we sall synge all the dayes of oure life in the hows of oure lord. ¶ Make me safe of deuyls, and of all illys withinen and withouten. and we sall synge oure psalmys, that is, we sall make solempn thi louyngis with mouth and hand. all the dayes of oure life. that is, contynuelly, whils we ere in gastly life and in charite. in godis hous. that is, in halykyrke. dwelland out tharof. psalme is noght quemeful [S. U queme ful.] til ihū crist.
CANTICUM ANNE. (I. REG. ij.)
EXULTAUIT cor meum in domino: & exaltatum est cornu meum in deo meo. ¶ My hert gladid in lord; and my horn is heghid in my god. ¶ Helchana, that was fadire of samuel, had twa wifes. fenen and Anna. by fenen, that first wex in berynge of barnys, is bitakynd the synagog of iwes. by Anna, that was first barayn. and sithen bigan to be mare multiplyd than the tothere, is bitakynd the kyrk of cristen men. wharfore anna brast out in louynge of god. and made this psalme enditand it. the haly gaste stirand vs til the louynge of oure lord, that has takyn vs fra the errours of hathyn men. At the bigynnynge of hire sange sho shewis that in god is hire delit, and says, as in figur of vs. My hert gladid. in my lord, of the froyte of goed werke and of medful meditacioun, that was sary for my baraynhede. and heghid is my horn, that is, my gastly strenght, in whilke .i. put away my scorners, in my god, noght in my selfe, na in vanyte of the warlde.
2. Dilatatum est os meum super inimicos meos: quia letata sum in salutari tuo. ¶ Largid is my mouth abouen myn enmys; for .i. ioiyd in thi hele. ¶ That is, wilfully and with