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¶ The seconde parte.
[verse 11]
Come neare therfore my children deare and to my wordes geue eare:
I shall you teache the perfite way, how you the Lorde should feare.
[verse 12]
who is that man that would liue long, * 1.1 and leade a blessed lyfe?
[verse 13]
Se thou refrayne thy tong and lippes, from all disceipt and stryfe.
[verse 14]
Turne backe thy face from doing ill, * 1.2 and doo the godly dede:
Inquire for peace and quyetnes, and folow it with spede.
[verse 15]
For why the eyes of God aboue, vpon the iust are bent:
His eares likewise do heare the plaint of the pore innocent.
[verse 16]
But he doth frowne & bend his browes vpon the wicked trayne:
And cutt away the memory, that should of them remayne.
[verse 17]
But when the iust doo call and cry, the Lorde doo heare them so:
That out of paine and misery, for the with he letth them go.
[verse 18]
The Lord is kind and straight at hand to suche as be contrite:
He sauthe also the sorowfull, the meke and poore in spirite.
[verse 19]
Full many be the miseries, that righteous men doo suffer: