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[A Psalme of Dauid, when he changed his behauiour before Abimelech: who droue him away & he departed.] I will blesse the Lord at all times: his prayse shall continually bee in my mouth.

My soule shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall heare thereof, and be glad.

O magnifie the Lord with me, and let vs exalt his name together.

I sought the Lord, and hee heard me; and deliuered mee from all my feares.

They looked vnto him, and were lightned: and their faces were not ashamed.

This poore man cried, and the Lord heard him; and saued him out of all his troubles.

The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that feare him, and deliuereth them.

O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

O feare the Lord yee his Saints: for there is no want to them that feare him.

The young lyons doe lacke, and suffer hunger: but they that seeke the Lord, shall not want any good thing.

Come yee children, hearken vnto me: I will teach you the feare of the Lord.

What man is hee that desireth life; and loueth many dayes, that he may see good?

Keepe thy tongue from euill, and thy lippes from speaking guile.

Depart from euill, and doe good: seeke peace and pursue it.

The eies of the Lord are vpon the righteous; and his eares are open vnto their crie.

The face of the Lord is against them that doe euill; to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The righteous crie, and the Lord heareth; and deliuereth them out of all their troubles.

The Lord is nigh vnto them that are of a broken heart: and saueth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord deliuereth him out of them all.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Euill shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shalbe desolate.

The Lord redeemech the soule of his seruants: and none of them that trust in him, shalbe desolate.

And Dauid arose, and fled that day, for feare of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.

And the seruants of Achish sayd vnto him, Is not this Dauid the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in daunces, saying, Saul hath slaine his thousands, and Dauid his ten thousands?

And Dauid layd vp these wordes in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

And he changed his behauiour before them, and fained himselfe mad in their hands, and scrabled on the doores of the gate, and let his spittle fall downe vpon his beard.

Then saide Achish vnto his seruants, Loe, you see the man is mad: wherefore then haue yee brought him to mee?

Haue I need of mad-men, that ye haue brought this fellow to play the mad-man in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?