¶ ffaire of shape bifor sonnes of men, helt is grace in thi lippis: forthi blissid has the god withouten ende. ¶ He synges of the louynge of this spouse, and says. faire ert thou of shape. that is, fre of all syn. bifor mennys sonnes the whilke synned all. bot for fairhede withouten wisdome suffis not, ȝit he loues. helt is grace in thi lippis: for the spekand the warld resayued grace of re|councelynge, for thi, that is, for this grace, thorgh the whilke the kyngedome of heuen is gifen, blissid has the man god withouten end, gifand til the reum of the whilke is nane endynge.
4. Accingere gladio tuo super femur tuum: potentissime. ¶ Be beltid with thi swerd abouen thi thee; myghtiest. ¶ Here he louys of pouste: the bihoues feght, forthi be beltid with thi swerd, that is, with godis worde. with that thou felles down thi faes. abouen thi thee: that is, on thi fleysse: thou myghtiest, agayns whaim nathynge may stand.
5. Specie tua & pulcritudine tua: intende prospere procede & regna. ¶ In thi shap and in thi fairehede: bihald esely. pasforth, and be kynge. ¶ Aswhasay, be beltid and swa bihald mannys kynd mercyfully. in thi shape and in thi fairhede, that is, in thi rightwisnes. thurgh the whilke thou ert wele shapyn and faire. esely delyuerand men, pasforth fra the maydyns wambe. and be [S. U he.] kynge in the hertis of men.
6. Propter veritatem & mansuetudinem & iusticiam: & deducet te mirabiliter dextera tua. ¶ ffor sothfastnes & de|bonerte and rightwisnes: and lede sall the wondirfully thi right|hand. ¶ I say be kynge, and that for thi [S. U forthi.] sothfastnes. that is, for thou leris sothfastnes that distroyes falshede, and for debonerte. that is, for thou ert myld, suffrand ill men. and swa thi lufers dos. and for rightwisnes. that is, for thou shewis the rightwisnes of life, and for thou sall cum to deme ilke man rightwisly. and all this is for the myght of thi godhede sall lede the thurgh this life won|dirfully, swa that men hafe wondire of thi myracles.
7. Sagitte tue acute: populi sub te cadent, in corda inimicorum regis. ¶ Thin arwis sharpe: folke sall vndire the fall, in hertis of the enmys of kynge. ¶ Thin arwis, that is, thi wordis, ere sharpe, that thirlis mennys thoghtis. and folke woundid with tha arwis sall fall vndire the: in hertis, for thai heghid thaim agayns crist, thare thai sall fall bifore him. of the enmys of kynge.
