Matthew(i)
11 Alas, why dyed I not in the byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as sone as I came oute of my mothers wombe?
12 Why set they me vpon their knees? Why gaue they me suck wyth their brestes?
13 Then shulde I now haue lyen styll, I shulde haue slepte, & bene at rest:
14 like as the kynges & lordes of the erth, which buyld them selues specyall places:
15 As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of gould, & theyr houses full of syluer.
16 O that I vtterlye had no beynge, or were as a thynge borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge chyldren, which neuer sawe the light.
17 There must the wycked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured be at rest:
18 there are those let out fre, whych haue bene in preson, so that they heare nomore the voyce of the oppressour:
19 There are small and greate: the bonde man, and he that is fre from his mayster.
20 Wherfore is the lyght geuen to hym that is in miserye? and lyfe vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?
21 Whyche longe for death, yf it come not: and search for it more then for treasure
22 which also would be exceding glad, & reioyce yf they found their graue.
23 That should be ioye to the man whose way is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him.
24 For my sighes come before I eate, and my roarynges fall oute lyke flowynge water.
25 For the thynge that I feared, is come vpon me: and the thing that I was afraied of, is happened vnto me?
26 Was I not happye? Had I not quyetnesse? Was I not in rest? And now commeth such misery vpon me.