❧ A Prayer or supplication made unto God by a young man, that he would be merciful to us, and not keep his word away from us, but that the truth may springe.  Psalm, C.xix. 
Wherein hath a young man O Lord to rejoice,  
But in thy word: therefore put I forth my voice.  

O Lord of mercy us behold  
The which are here in great misery  
And in doing thy will lord we are to cold  
Therefore on us show some pity  
For mercy unto thee now do we cry  
That thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

Let us not be forsaken of thee O lord  
Although we be wretched and sinful  
But thy mercies now show abroad  
And to us sinners most wicked be merciful  
For mercy unto thee now do we cry  
That thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

Thou didst thy word plentifully sow abroad  
Even unto us lord of time very late  
But we were to unthankful, all with one accord  
Therefore thou didst, o lord, it away take  
Wherefore now for mercy unto thee we cry  
That thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

Good lord be merciful unto us we thee pray  
Although destruction we have deserved  
Let us have thy word again, O lord, to be our stay  
That by strong faith in thee, we may be saved  
For only unto thee continually will we cry  
That thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

Take away Idolatry, o lord, let that no more upspring  
In this, O lord, thy poor and simple land  
Thou didst plague us lord, in taking away our King  
Wherefore hold over us now thy right hand  
And forgive us lord, now do we cry  
That in our sins thou suffer us not to die.   

Full godly and righteously did he begin  
For the time thou gavest him space  
To set forth thy glory, and punish sin  
This was the intent of his grace  
Therefore for the like do we now cry  
That thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

Images, o lord, he plucked clean down  
And ceremonies that were naught  
And priests he made leave Baales crown  
And thy word he caused to be taught  
For by thy word all thing did he try  
that we in ignorance should not die.   

He was the sour thy seed to sow  
As thy Evangelists do plainly write  
But some of thy seed away did go  
Among the hard ground did it light  
therefore for forgiveness now do we cry  
that thou in our sins suffer us not to die.   

We are that hard and stony ground  
Where some of thy seed did fall  
Of which seed small rote is found  
Satan almost had dried up all  
Therefore for mercy now do we cry  
that thou in our sins suffer us not to die,   

O Lord, make us of that fruitful ground  
the which doth keep thy commandments  
That great increase of godliness in us may be found  
that we may serve thee with good intentes  
And always for mercy unto thee to cry  
That we in our sins do never die.   

Full notable and excellent kings thou hast given us  
King Henry the eight of most famous memory  
Which abolished the bishop of Rome from us  
And by thy mighty power plucked down much idolatri  
We considering this, for mercy do now cry  
That in our sins thou suffer us not to die.   

Also we were made to go and worship a false God  
Which was a great abomination and idolatry  
But thy commandments he set forth abroad  
In our own native speech most truly  
teaching us always on the for to cry  
that we in our sins lord, should not die.   

Even as Esechias was unto judae  
So was King Henry unto England  
Unto this King, o lord, compare we  
Edward the sixth whom thou hast in thy hand  
Which thy word set abroad most manifestly  
That we in our sins Lord, should not die.   

Although that in age he was not so high  
Yet unto his steps he went very near  
Unto the glory of thy blessed Majesty  
And unto the soul health of us his subjects dear  
Therefore unto thee, o lord, do we now cry  
that thou in our sins suffer us not to die   

His father broke the Pilgrimages going  
to this saint and that saint, to and fro  
But he, o lord, at his up coming  
Brought down all as thou dost know  
For by thy word he did all thing try  
That we in our sins should not die.   

He was in age like to that virtuous king  
josias, which in Jerusalem did reign  
One and thirty years had he there his being  
And executed thy law this is very plain  
But for our unthankfulness, o lord, truly  
Thou causedst our worthy king shortly for to die.   

I heartily beseech thee, o eternal God  
To keep and preserve Elysabeth our Queen  
That she may thy word now set abroad  
Now in her time as before hath been  
By her godly Father & brother, for which thing we cry  
That we may repent, and not in our sins die,   
Finis,  Quod john pits  

Printed at London in Aldersgate street by William Herforde. The xxiii of March. M.d.lix