A Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms in English Verse : 'Hic incipiunt septem Psalmi penitenciales de Latino translati in Anglicum' [Percy Society Publications 7 (1842)]
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- A Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms in English Verse : 'Hic incipiunt septem Psalmi penitenciales de Latino translati in Anglicum' [Percy Society Publications 7 (1842)]
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- Brampton, Thomas, Black, W. H.
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- 1840-1852.
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- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"A Paraphrase on the Seven Penitential Psalms in English Verse : 'Hic incipiunt septem Psalmi penitenciales de Latino translati in Anglicum' [Percy Society Publications 7 (1842)]." In the digital collection Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/CME00017. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2025.
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APPENDIX I.
[Harl. MS. 1845, ff. 15, 16.]
Legitur in Vita Sancti BERNARDI Abbatis Clare∣vallis, quod Demon sibi semel apparuit, dicens se scire octo versus in Psalterio, quos qui cotidie diceret, tanti meriti acquireret, ac si totum Psalterium Da∣viticum decantasset. Et cum beatus Bernardus instaret ut sibi eosdem versus ostenderet, ille vero hoc facere recusaret; tunc beatus Bernardus, "Scio," in[quit,] "quid faciam: [MS. scio inquid faciam.] nam quotidie legam totum Psalterium, deinceps; sicque predictos versus non obmittam." Quod cum audisset Demon, ne tantum bonum faceret, pocius sibi hos versus ostendit. Sunt autem qui sequuntur. [MS. sequitur.]
Illumina oculos meos, ne unquam obdormiam in morte: nequando dicat inimicus meus, 'Prevalui adversus eum.' (Ps. xii. 4.)
In manus tuas, Domine, [Domine does not occur here in many Psalters.] commendo spiritum meum: redemisti me, Domine Deus veritatis! (Ps. xxx. 6.)
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Locutus sum in lingua mea, 'Notum michi fac, Domine, finem meum;
'Et numerum dierum meorum, quis est: ut sciam quid desit michi.' (Ps. xxxviii. 5, 6.)
Fac mecum signum in bono, [The Psalters read in bonum.] ut videant qui te oderunt, [The Psalters, qui oderunt me.] et confundantur: quoniam tu, Domine, adjuvisti me, et consolatus es me. (Ps. lxxxv. 16.)
Dirupisti, Domine, vincula mea: tibi sacrificabo hostiam laudis, et nomen Domini invocabo. (Ps. cxv. 7.)
Periit fuga a me: et non est qui requirat animam [meam.] [This word is added from the Psalters, to complete the sense.] (Ps. cxli. 6.)
Clamavi ad te, Domine: dixi, 'Tu es spes mea, porcio mea in terra vivencium.' (Ps. cxli. 7.)
Oracio dicenda post hos versus.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus! qui Ezechie Regi, inde te cum lacrimis humiliter deprecanti, vite spa∣cium protendisti! concede michi indigno famulo tuo, ante diem mortis mee, tantum vite spacium, quo, ad mensuram, ut omnia peccata mea valeam deplorare; et veniam ac graciam, secundum misericordiam tuam, consequi merear. Per Christum.
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Item alia oracio.
Domine Jesu C[h]riste! per illam amaritudinem mortis quam sustinuisti pro me in cruce, maxime cum anima tua egressa fuit de corpore tuo; miserere anime in gressu suo. Amen. [In the MS. is added the following short prayer, without a rubric: but, as it was added with a different pen, it seems not properly to belong to this article. "Peto, Domine Jesu, largire michi in amore tuo modum sine mensura, a ectum sine modo, languorem s[i]ne ordine, ardorem sine discrecione. Amen."]