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| [1]The title of the seuene and fiftithe salm. `In Ebreu thus, To victorie; `lese thou not the swete song, ether the semely salm, of Dauid. `In Jeroms translacioun thus, To the ouercomere, that thou lese not Dauid, meke and simple. |
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| [2]Forsothe if ye speken riytfulnesse verili; ye sones of men, deme riytfuli. |
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| [3]For in herte ye worchen wickidnesse in erthe; youre hondis maken redi vnriytfulnessis. |
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| [4]Synneris weren maad aliens fro the wombe; thei erriden fro the wombe, thei spaken false thingis. |
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| [5]Woodnesse is to hem, bi the licnesse of a serpent; as of a deef snake, and stoppynge hise eeris. |
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| [6]Which schal not here the vois of charmeris; and of a venym makere charmynge wiseli. |
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| [7]God schal al to-breke the teeth of hem in her mouth; the Lord schal breke togidere the greet teeth of liouns. |
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| [8]Thei schulen come to nouyt, as water rennynge awei; he bente his bouwe, til thei ben maad sijk. |
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| [9]As wexe that fletith awei, thei schulen be takun awei; fier felle aboue, and thei siyen not the sunne. |
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| [10]Bifore that youre thornes vndurstoden the ramne; he swolewith hem so in ire, as lyuynge men. |
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| [11]The iust man schal be glad, whanne he schal se veniaunce; he schal waische hise hondis in the blood of a synner. |
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