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so that he sat vpon the grounde in the asshes, and scraped of the etter off his sores with a potsherde.

So when they lifte vp their eyes a farre off, they knewe him not. Then they cried, and wepte: then euery one off them rente his clothes, and sprynckled dust vpon their heades in the ayre.

there are those letten out fre, which haue bene in preson, so that they heare nomore the voyce of the oppressoure:

Then stode there one before me, whose face I knewe not: an ymage there was, and the wether was still, so that I herde this voyce:

and be taken awaye so clene, that none of the shall remayne, but be deed, or euer they be awarre off it.

Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode:

In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.

And so he delyuereth the poore from the swearde, from their mouth, and from the hode of the cruell:

He delyuereth the out of sixe troubles, so that in the seuenth there can no harme touch the.

He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare.

for then shulde it be heuyer, then the sonde of the see. This is the cause, that my wordes are so soroufull.

Eue so are ye also come vnto me: but now that ye se my mysery, ye are afrayed.

Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

as a cloude is cosumed and vanyshed awaye, euen so he that goeth downe to hell, commeth nomore vp,

Am I a see or a whalfysh, that thou kepest me so in preson?

The troublest thou me with dreames, ad makest me so afrayed thorow visions,

What is man, that thou hast him in soch reputacion, and settest so moch by him?

Why goest thou not fro me, ner lettest me alone, so longe till I swalow downe my spetle?

I haue offended, what shal I do vnto ye, O thou preseruer off men? Why hast thou made me to stonde in thy waye, and am so heuy a burden vnto myself?

How longe wilt thou talke of soch thinges? how longe shal yi mouth speake so proude wordes?