'How fer hys power doth extende,
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Was neuere yet noon so gret clerk. [folio 49a]
'And thogh the heuene, touchyng his wark [[his wark St., om. C.]]
Hadde any maner knowelychyng
To comprehendyn hys werkyng,
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Yt sholdë nat so hardy be
To gruchche ageyn hys deyete.
But I [[I St., to C.]] speke in wordys pleyn,
Humblely with Davyd seyn
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Touchyng hys myght wych doth excelle,
'Lat the heuene hys glorie telle,
Hys laude, hys honour, & preysyng,
And yive worshepe to hys werkyng. [Celi enarrant gloriam Dei. St., om. C.]
And also (in hys best entent)
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Lat also the fyrmament
Hys handwerk devoutly preyse,
And day-by-day hys honour Reyse
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In laude & prys ful many fold.'
'But causë why that I ha told
Thys thyng to the thus, [[thus C., om. St.]] by-&-by,
I shal reherse the cause her why.
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The hihë hornyd, most holy,
Callyd in erthë comounly
Off God the chosë cheff vyker,
And hys placë kepeth [[kepte St.]] her,
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And doth yt pleynly occupye,—
The wych, no man wyl denye;—
Yet thogh thys vyker, aboue echon [Stowe folio 60b]
Haue power off yore agon,
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Aboven euerych other whyht,
And wolde the cours (of verray ryht)
Off hys myghty excellence
Wher [[were St.]] doun shad by influence
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To other lowere of degre
Commytted from hys souereyn se,
Whom he ordeyneth her & yonder
By commyssyon to be vnder
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6Hys high power by Ordynaunce [folio 49b]
For to haven Governaunce
(Who that kan the trouthë seke)
