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¹ My hert is dytinge of a good matter, I speake of that, which I haue made of the kynge:² My tonge is ye penne of a ready wryter.³ Thou art the fayrest amonge the children of me, full of grace are thy lippes, therfore God blesseth the for euer.⁴ Gyrde the with thy swerde vpon thy thee (o thou mightie) with worshipe and renowne.⁵ Good lucke haue thou with thine honoure, ryde on with the treuth, mekenesse & rightuousnes: & thy right hode shal teach ye woderfull thinges.

⁶ Thy arowes are sharpe, the people shalbe subdued vnto the, euen in the myddest amonge the kynges enemies.⁷ Thy seate (o God) endureth for euer: the cepter of thy kyngdome is a right cepter.⁸ Thou hast loued rightuousnesse, & hated iniquite: wherfore God (which is thy God) hath anoynted the with the oyle of gladnes aboue thy felowes.⁹ All thy garmentes are like myrre, Aloes & Cassia, when thou comest out of thine yuerie palaces in thy beutifull glory.

¹⁰ Kynges doughters go in thy goodly araye, & vpon thy right honde stondeth the quene in a vesture of the most fyne golde.¹¹ Herken (o doughter) considre, & enclyne thine eare: forget thine owne people, & thy fathers house.¹² So shal the kynge haue pleasure in thy beutie, for he is thy LORDE, & thou shalt worshipe him.¹³ The doughters of Tyre shal be there with giftes, the riche amonge the people shal make their supplicacion before the.¹⁴ The kynges doughter is all glorious within, hir clothinge is of wrought golde.¹⁵ She shalbe brought vnto the kynge in rayment of nedle worke, and maydens after her: soch as be next her shalbe brought vnto the.¹⁶ With ioye and gladnesse shal they be brought, and go in to the kynges palace.¹⁷ In steade of thy fathers thou hast gotten children, whom thou shalt make prynces in all londes. I wil remembre thy name from one generacio to another: therfore shal the people geue thankes vnto the, worlde without ende.