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Thei cumpassinge cumpassiden me; and in the name of the Lord, for Y am auengid on hem.

Thei cumpassiden me as been, and thei brenten out as fier doith among thornes; and in the name of the Lord, for Y am avengid on hem.

I am a comeling in erthe; hide thou not thin heestis fro me.

I am redi, and Y am not disturblid; to kepe thi comaundementis.

I am parcener of alle that dreden thee; and kepen thin heestis.

For Y am maad as a bowge in frost; Y haue not foryete thi iustifiyngis.

I am thin, make thou me saaf; for Y haue souyt thi iustifiyngis.

I am maad low bi alle thingis; Lord, quykene thou me bi thi word.

I am thi seruaunt, yyue thou vndurstondyng to me; that Y kunne thi witnessingis.

I am yong, and dispisid; Y foryat not thi iustifiyngis.

The `title of the hundrid and oon and twentithe salm. The song of the grecis of Dauid. I am glad in these thingis, that ben seid to me; We schulen go in to the hous of the Lord.

I schal noumbre hem, and thei schulen be multiplied aboue grauel; Y roos vp, and yit Y am with thee.

Y am aloone til Y passe.

Yyue thou tent to my biseching; for Y am maad low ful greetli. Delyuere thou me fro hem that pursuen me; for thei ben coumfortid on me.

and in thi merci thou schalt scatere alle myn enemyes. And thou schalt leese alle them, that troublen my soule; for Y am thi seruaunt.

Y, wisdom, dwelle in counsel; and Y am among lernyd thouytis.

Who may seie, Myn herte is clene; Y am clene of synne?

and seide, Y am the moost fool of men; and the wisdom of men is not with me.

I spak in myn herte, and Y seide, Lo! Y am made greet, and Y passide in wisdom alle men, that weren bifore me in Jerusalem; and my soule siy many thingis wiseli, and Y lernede.

Ye douytris of Jerusalem, Y am blak, but fair, as the tabernaclis of Cedar, as the skynnes of Salomon.