Synge we to the Lord, forsothe gloriously he is magnyfied; the hors and the steyer up he threwe down into the see. My strengthe and my preysyng the Lord; 2   and he is maad to me into helthe. This my God, and hym Y shal gloryfie; the God of my fader, and hym Y shal enhaunce. 3   The Lord as a man fi&yogh;ter, Almy&yogh;ti his name; 4   the chare of Pharao and his oost he threwe fer into the see. His chosun princes weren turned vpsedoun in the reed see; 5   the depe watris couerden hem; thei descendiden into the depthe as

a stoon. 6   Lord, thi ri&yogh;t hoond is magnyfied in strengthe; thy ry&yogh;t hoond, Lord, hath smytun the enemye. 7   And in multitude of thi glorie thow hast put doun alle myn aduersaryes; thow hast sent thi wrath, that deuowride hem as stoble. 8   And in the spirit of thi woodnes watris ben gederid togidere; the flowynge water stode, the depe watris ben gederid to gidere in the myddil see. 9   The enemye seide, Y shal pursue, and Y shal tak; robries Y shal dyuyde, my soule shal be fulfillid. I shal drawe out my swerd; and myn hoond shal slee hym. 10   Thi spiryt blewe, and the see couerde hem; and thei ben vnder dreynt as leed in hidows watris. 11   Who, Lord, is lijk to thee in strong thingis, who is lijk to thee? thow doer of greet thingis in holynes, and feerful, and preysable, and doynge merueyls. 12   Thow hast strau&yogh;t out thin hoond, and the erthe hath deuourid hem; 13   a duke thow hast ben in thi merci to thi puple, that thow hast a&yogh;enbou&yogh;t and thow hast born it in thi strengthe to thin holi dwellyng place. 14   Puples steiden vp, and ben wrooth; sorwes withheelden the dwellers of Philistien. 15   Thanne ben disturbid the princes of Edom; tremblyng withheelde the strong men of Moab. 16   Alle the dwellers of Chanaan a&yogh;enfrusshiden for ferde; inward drede fal vpon hem, and outward drede in the mykilnes of thin arme. Be thei maad vnmouable as a stoon, to the tyme, Lord, that thi puple passe; to the tyme that thi puple passe, this that thow hast weeldid. 17   Thow shalt lede hem yn, and thow shalt plaunt in the hil of thin heritage; with thi moost stedfast dwellyng, Lord, that thow hast wrou&yogh;t; Lord, thi seyntuarye, that thin hondes fastiden. 18   The Lord shal regne

withouten ende and ouer. 19   Forsothe Pharao, rydynge with charys, and his horsmen &yogh;eden yn to the see, and the watris of the see the Lord a&yogh;enbrou&yogh;te vpon hem; the sones forsothe of Yrael &yogh;eden thur&yogh; the drye, in the myddil of it. 20   Thanne Mary, a prophetesse, the sister of Aaron, tok a tympan in hir hoond, and alle the wymmen &yogh;eden out after hir, with tympanes and daunses; 21   with the whiche she before songe, seiynge, Synge we to the Lord, gloriously forsothe he is magnyfyed; the hors and his steier up he threw doun into the see. 22   Forsothe Moyses tok Yrael fro the reed see, and thei &yogh;eden out into the desert of Sur, and thei &yogh;eden thre dayes thur&yogh; wildirnes, and thei fonden no watyr. 23   And thei camen into Marath, and thei my&yogh;ten not drynk the watris of Marath, forthi that thei weren bitter; wherfor and a couenable name he putte to the place, clepynge it Mara, that is, bitternes. 24   And the puple grucchide a&yogh;ens Moyses, seiynge, What shulen we drynk? 25   And he cryede to the Lord, the which shewide hym a tree; the which whanne he hadde put into the watris, thei weren turned into swetnes. There he ordeynede to him heestis and domes, and there he temptide hym, 26   seiynge, If thow herist the voys of the Lord thi God, and dost that that is ry&yogh;t before hym, and obeyshist to his maundementis, and kepist alle his heestis, al the langour that I putte in Egipte, Y shal not brynge yn vpon thee; I forsothe am the Lord thi Sauyour. The sones of Yrael forsothe camen into Helym, where weren twelue welles of watris, and seuenti palme trees, and thei meueden tentis bisides the waters.

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