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All be it that I call vpon him, and he heare me, yet am I not sure, yt he hath herde my voyce:

For that I shulde be an innocent, my coscience knoweth it not, yee I my self am weery off my life.

When I am purposed to forget my complayninges to chaunge my countenaunce, and to coforte my self:

then am I afrayed of all my workes, for I knowe, thou fauourest not an euell doer.

For he yt I must geue answere vnto, and with whom I go to lawe, is not a man as I am.

and then shal I answere him without eny feare. For as longe as I am in soch fearfulnesse, I can make no answere: And why?

where as (notwithstondinge) thou knowest that I am no wicked person, & that there is no man able to delyuer me out of thine honde.

Though thou hydest these thinges in thine hert, yet am I sure, that thou remembrest the all.

Yf I do wickedly, wo is me therfore: Yf I be rightuous, yet darre I not lift vp my heade: so full am I of confucion, and se myne owne misery.

Thou bringest fresh witnesses agaynst me, thy wrath increasest thou vpon me, very many are the plages that I am in.

Wilt thou saye vnto God: The thinge that I take in honde, is perfecte, & I am clene in thy sight?

But I haue vnderstodinge as well as ye, and am no lesse then ye. Yee who knoweth not these thinges?

Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you.

Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.

Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty.

Maye a deed man lyue agayne? All the dayes of this my pilgremage am I lokynge, when my chaunginge shal come.

And now that I am full of payne, and all that I haue destroied

My breth fayleth, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes dore.

He hath made me as it were a byworde of the comon people, I am his gestinge stocke amoge the.

He hath destroyed me on euery syde, and I am vndone: My hope hath he taken awaye fro me, as it were a tre plucte vp by the rote.