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In like manner and by like occasion hath been committed a fault in the 84. Psalm,¹ wherein your translation hath these words in all your books old and new without any correction:² Because God loveth mercy and trueth: And are not these good words? who can say otherwise? the words in deed are good and godly: but the translation ⟨p. 316⟩is nought. For this should the translation of that text have been, The Lord God is our sun and shield, as Genebrarde and your own men cannot deny. In the 88. Psalm David saith, shall the dead arise and praise thee? But your translation is ridiculous, shall the Physicians raise up? turning dead into Physicians, ³and rising into raising. Here Genebrarde to mend all that is amiss, hath invented a new sense thus, shall the Physicians raise up, that is, the dead, that they may praise thee. Physicians are appointed to save alive, if they can, not to raise the dead: for if one be dead, it is to late to call the Physician. I marvel he was not ashamed to make so lewd a gloss.

In like manner and by like occasion hath bene committed a fault in the 84. Psalme,¹ wherein your translation hath these words in all your bookes olde and new without any correction:² Because God loueth mercie and trueth: And are not these good words? who can say otherwise? the wordes in deede are good and godlie: but the translation ⟨p. 316⟩is nought. For this should the translation of that text haue bene, The Lord God is our sunne and shield, as Genebrarde and your owne men cannot denie. In the 88. Psalme Dauid saith, shall the deade arise and praise thee? But your translation is ridiculous, shall the Phisicians raise vp? turning deade into Phisicians, ³