The Psalter, or Psalms of David and certain canticles / with a translation and exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole ; ed. from manuscripts by the Rev. H. R. Bramley ... With an introduction and glossary.

2. Labores manuum tuarum quia manducabis: beatus es & bene tibi erit. ¶ The trauels of thi handes for thou shal ete: blisful thou ert & wel shal be til the. ¶ Trauels are takyn with ioy for hope. and thei are now fode til soul. bot the frute of thaim. wol be delitabyller in heuen. bot thou art blisful now in hope. & then shal be wel til the. when thou sees god in his fairhed. & i whils.

3. Vxor tua sicut vitis habundans: in lateribus domus tue. ¶ Thi wife as vyntre haboundand: in sides of thi house. ¶ That is, thi flesch. suget til thi gost. haboundis in gode werkis. festid in thouȝtis of clene consciens.

4. Filij tui sicut nouelle oliuarum: in cincuitu mense tue. ¶ Thi sunnys as new ympis of olifis: in vmgang of thi borde [S. L worde.] . ¶ That is, thi werkis sprynges enoynt with oyl of charite. & thei ere in vmgang of thi borde. that is, thei gif the coumfort and delite in contemplacyon of god, in the whilk mannys soul is fed.

5. Ecce sic benedicetur homo: qui timet dominum. ¶ Lo so schal be blessid the man: that dredis our lorde. ¶ This he seys that we take ensaumple to folow.

6. Benedicat tibi dominus ex syon: vt videas bona ierusalem omnibus diebus vite tue. ¶ Lord blesse the of syon: and see thou the godes of ierusalem all the dayes of thi [S. L This.] life. ¶ That is, blesse he the wyth endles blessyng. that thou see the ioyes of heuen withouten end.

7. Et videas filios filiorum tuorum: pacem super israel. ¶ And se thou the sunnys of thi sunnys: pees on israel. ¶ Sunnys of sunnys is frute of gode werke. that thou shal see: and pees on israel. all tho [S. L the.] godes are cald pees.

[PSALM CXXVIII.]

SEPE expugnauerunt me a iuuentute mea: dicat nunc israel. ¶ Oft syth thei waryed [S weried.] me. fro my ȝouthede: sey now israel. ¶ Holy kyrk answeres til febil men that grucchis for thei suffur anguys of tirantis, & seys. sunnys, wondur ȝow not of thair tourmentyng. for [S. L om.] i hafe suffurd that of thaim. fro the first that i began to luf god. & that sey israel. that,

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Title: The Psalter, or Psalms of David and certain canticles / with a translation and exposition in English by Richard Rolle of Hampole ; ed. from manuscripts by the Rev. H. R. Bramley ... With an introduction and glossary.
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Publication: Oxford :: Clarendon press,; 1884.
Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- English (Middle English) -- 1884.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Latin. -- 1884.

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