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Pelle et carnibus vestisti me, ossibus et neruis compegisti me.
With flesshe and felle thow hast me cladde,
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With bones and synewes togeder knyt.
Lyfe and mercy of the I hadde.
To gouerne me thow yaue me wyt.
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To kepe thyne hestes thow me bade,
And seydest that I shuld, for hit,
In heuen blysse be euer gladde; [folio 11b]
And yet I woll nat fro syn flytte,
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But freelte, lord, so me smytte,
Vnnethe kepte ys oone for me.
Nat for than I pray the yet
ffor Parce michi, domine.
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Vitam et misericordiam tribuisti michi.
Lyfe and mercy thow yaue me ay.
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When I wold thy mercy craue,
Thow seydest to me nat ones nay,
But glad was when I wold hit haue.
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Thow were redy nyght and day
With mercy, lord, me to saue;
But I denyed hit alwey,
So woodly syn made me to raue.
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I seruyd syn, and was hys knaue.
I dyd that was ayenst me.
Now, lord, when I am leyde in graue,
Than Parce michi, domine.
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Et visitacio tua custodivit spiritum meum.
Thy vysitacion, lorde, hath kepte
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My spyryte, that ys me withyn.
ffor when I wolde to syn haue lepte,
Than holy grace made me to blyn.
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And ofte tyme I haue sore wept,
The more grace of the to wyn.
And thus with wepyng haue I wypt
My soule, lord, from dedly synne.
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