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.

¶Deus laudem meam. Psalme, Cix. N.

¶Dauid being falslye accused by flatterers vnto Sawl, prayeth God to helpe him and to destroye his enemyes. And vnder them he spea∣keth of Iudas the traitour vnto Iesus Christ, and of all the like ene∣myes of the children of God: And desireth so to be deliuered, that his enemies may know the work of God, Then doth he promise to geue prayses vnto God.

IN specheles silence doo not holde, O God thy tong alwayes, * 1.1 O God, euen thou I say that art. the God of all my prayse. The wicked mouth and gilefull mouth, on me disclosed be, And they with false and lying tong, haue spoken vnto me.

Euen so doo I departe away, as doth declynyng shade: And as the grashopper, so I am shaken of and fade. With fastyng longe from nedefull fode, enfebled are my knees: And all her fatnes hath my flesh, enforced ben to lese.

And I also a vyle reproche, to them was made to be. And they that did vpon me loke: did shake theyr heds at me. But thou, O Lorde that art my God, myne ayde and succour be: Accordyng to thy merycy, Lorde, saue and delyuer me.

And they shall know thereby, that thys (Lord) is thy myghty hand: And that thou thou hast done it, Lorde, so shall they vnderstande. Although they curse with spite, yet thou shalt bles with louyng voyce: They shall aryse and come to shame, thy seruant shall reioyse.

Let them be clothed all with shame, that enmies are to me▪ And with confusyon as a cloke, eke couerd let them be.

But greatly I will with mg mouthe, geue thankes vnto the Lorde, And I among the multitude hys prayses will recorde.

For he with help at hys ryght hand, will stande the pooreman by, To saue hym from the men that wold condemne his soule to dye.

Notes

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  Sing this as the. lxxxxv