The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

¶ The Lamentation of a Sinner. M

〈♫〉〈♫〉 O Lord turn not away thy face, frō him 〈♫〉〈♫〉 that lieth prostrate: Lamenting sore his sinfull 〈♫〉〈♫〉 lyfe, before thy mercy gate: Which gate thou ope¦nest 〈♫〉〈♫〉 wide to those that doo lament their sinne, 〈♫〉〈♫〉 shut not y^t gate against me lord, but let me enter in

And call me not to mine accompts How I haue liued here: For then I know right well (O Lorde) How vile I shall appere. I nede not to confesse my lyfe, I am sure thou canst tell:

what I haue ben, and what I am I know thou knowest it well.

O lord thou knowest what things be past And eke the thinges that be: Thou knowest also what is to come, Nothing is hid from thee, Before the heauens & earth were made: Thou knowest what thinges were then: As all things els that hath bene since, Among the sonnes of men.

And can the thinges that I haue done, Be hidden from thee then: Nay, nay, thou knowest them all (O Lord) where they were done and when, wherfore with teares I come to thee, To begge and to entreat: Euen as the child thht hath done euill, And feareth to be beat.

So come I to thy mercy gate, where mercy doth abound: Requiring mercy for my sinne, Toheale my deadly wound, O Lorde I nede not to repete, what I doo beg or craue: Thou knowest (O Lorde) before I aske, The thing that I would haue.

Mercy good Lorde mercy I aske, This is the totall summe: For mercy Lorde is all my sute, Lorde let thy mercy come.