me. ¶ Many calfis has vmgifen me; fat bulles me has vmseged. ¶ Many calfis. that is the multitude of licherous folke. withouten the ȝoke of god: fat bulles, that is proude prynces, for thaire riches cruellere, vmsegid me as a kastell, that .i. passe noght fra thaim.
12. Aperuerunt super me os suum: sicut leo rapiens & rugiens. ¶ Thai oppynd on me thaire mouth; as lyon rawysand [S ins. '& raumpande.'] and rumyand. ¶ Thai oppynd on me thaire mouth, as thai wild ette me: as lyon rauysand thai toke me. and rumyand thai cryed that .i. ware doen on crosse.
13. Sicut aqua effusus sum: & dispersa sunt omnia ossa mea. ¶ As watere .i. am helt; and scaterd ere all my banes. ¶ That is, .i. am slane of thaim as fouly as watere is helt: thai roght na mare to sla me than to spill watere: his banes he calles his apostels, that sould haf bene strenght of other, and thai ware [S ins. 'disppilt.'] scatird: for thai forsoke him and fled.
14. Factum est cor meum tanquam cera liquescens: in medio ventris mei. ¶ Made is my hert as wax meltand; in mydis of my wambe. ¶ That is my lare, that .i. had festid thaim with, it vanyst away fra thaim, when thai saghe me suffire, and it fell fra febill men and tendire, the whilk ere lykynd bi the wambe. Me thynke gret wondire that oure hard hertis meltis noght with the fire of his luf. that swa mykill lufid vs.
15. Aruit tanquam testa virtus mea: & lingua mea adhesit faucibus meis, & in puluerem mortis deduxisti me. ¶ My vertu dried as a pot: and my tonge droghe til my chekis, and in dust of ded thou has me broght. ¶ My vertu that first was proued thurgh myrakils. dried, that is, wex vile as a pot scarth, that men settis noght by. and my tonge drogh til my chekis. that is, .i. answerd thaim noght: and in dust of ded thou has me broght. this says he, noght grauntand it, for his body rot noght, bot he sayd it for the iwes wend that he sould haf fallen in till dust. of ded, as men does.
16. Quoniam circumdederunt me canes multi: consilium malignancium obsedit me. ¶ ffor hundes many vmgaf me; counsail of ill wiland me has vmsett. ¶ Hundes he calles iwes, and bakbiters: noght for sothfastnes, bot for ill custom, berkand & bitand, as hundes folus ther custom in berkyng and bitynge: ill
