- O Lord turn not away thy face,
- from him that lieth prostrate,
- Lamenting fore his sinful life,
- before thy mercy gate,
- which gate thou openest wide to those,
- that do lament their sin,
- Shut not that gate against me Lord,
- but let me enter in.
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- And call me not to mine accounts,
- How I have lived here:
- For then I know right well, O Lord,
- How wise I shall appear:
- I need not to confess my life,
- I am sure thou canst tell:
- What I have been, and what I am,
- I know thou knowest it well,
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- O Lord thou knowest what things be past,
- And eke the things that be.
- Thou knowest also what is to come,
- Nothing is hid form thee:
- Before the heavens and the earth were made
- Thou knewest what things were then:
- As all things else that hath been since,
- Among the Sons of men.
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- And can the things that I have done,
- Be hidden form thee then?
- Nay nay thou knowest them all, O Lord,
- Where they were done and when.
- Wherefore with tears I come to thee,
- To beg and to entreat:
- Even as the Child that hath done evil,
- And feareth to be beat.
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- So come I to thy mercy gate
- Where mercy doth abound,
- Requiring mercy for my sin,
- To heal my deadly wound.
- O Lord, I need not to repeat,
- What I do beg or crave:
- Thou know’st , O Lord, before I ask,
- The thing that I would have.
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- Mercy good Lord, mercy I ask,
- This is the total sum:
- For mercy Lord is all my suite,
- Lord let thy mercy come.
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