¶ Thou has sett vs reproue til oure neghburs: scornynge and hethynge til tha that ere in oure vmgange. ¶ That is grete [S. U grefe.] tour|ment that is of oure neghburs. and that hethynge is noght sone passand that we suffire of tha that ere all aboute vs.
16. Posuisti nos in similitudinem gentibus: commo|cionem capitis in populis. ¶ Thou sett vs in liknynge til genge: stirynge of heued in folke. ¶ We ere liknynge of weriynge when men says. swa bifall the as bifell him or him. and hathyn men was wont to take fourm of weriynge bi martirs. this stirynge of heued is dedeyn and [U ad.] despite that thai hafe of goed men, as thai had maysteri [S. U mast.] ouere thaim.
17. Tota die verecundia mea contra me est: & confusio faciei mee cooperuit me. ¶ All day my shame agayns me is: and confusion of my face hild me. ¶ This shame is agaynes haly men all day when thai see ill men make hethynge at thaim that ere fallen eft in syn.
18. A voce exprobrantis & obloquentis: a facie inimici & persequentis. ¶ ffra the voice of the vpbraydand and of the agaynspekand: fra the face of the enmy and of the foluand. ¶ Vpbraydynge is to say the ill in amannys syght. agayn spekynge is to bakbite and gnaw falsly.
19. Hec omnia venerunt super nos, nec obliti sumus te: & inique non egimus in testamento tuo. ¶ All there come on vs, na we hafe forgetyn the: and wickidly we noght wroght in thi testament. ¶ All there illes come on vs. bot therfore we forgat not the. for we knaw that thou ert to luf for thi self. noght for thi giftes anly: and we wroght not wickidly in thi testament. that is, in couaunte that we made with the in baptem: for we kepid thi biddyngis.
20. Et non recessit retro cor nostrum: & declinasti semitas nostras a via tua. ¶ And oure hert departid not agayn: and thou heldid oure stretis fra thi way. ¶ That is, oure will ȝede not agayn, myshopand of thi goednes. & thou toke oure stretis, that ware in welth & lustis of this warld, fra thi way. the whilke thou shewid vs, forto ga in til the land of life.
21. Quoniam humiliasti nos in loco affliccionis: & co|operuit nos vmbra mortis. ¶ ffor thou mekid vs in stede of affliccioun [S. U afficcioun.] : and the shadow of ded vmhild vs. ¶ This warld is
