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2.13 R187164 1 The Lamentation of a Sinner The Lamentation of a Sinner O Lord my God I come to thee,/ in all my grief and pain, pasted across two pages in single sheet oblong folio, 280 x 340, with Pepys 2.12: A new Ditty, shewing the Wonderful miracles of our Lord/ Jesus Crhist, whihc he did while he remained on Earth Pepys 2.13 Wing S4714B; Rollins (2) 1987 (Dec. 14, 1624, IV, 132) Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 2: 13 The sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner. The sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner. The Sorrowful Lamentation of a Penitent Sinner. 1/2 sheet oblong folio, 280 x 170 cropped right edge, damaged surface, uneven inking 1681-1684 Priuted for I. W. I. C. W. T. and T. P. I. W., I. C., W. T, T. P Blagden

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O Lord my God I come to thee, in all my grief and pain, Now turn to me in my distress, and comfort me again: And enter not to judgment Lord, with sinful dust and clay. Nor with thy servant be not wrath nor turn thy face away. And lay not Lord thy hand on me, too heavy is thy fume, For I am week and in thy wrath, I quickly shall consume: I am afraid of thee O Lord, because thou didst me beat, But yet I know that Jesus Christ, will for my soul intreat. I am a sinful wretch, O Lord, for mercy I do cry, Now help me Lord in my distress, and extream misery: For unto thee Lord do I cry, by night and eke by day, Now help me for thy mercy sake, and that without delay. But do not beat me over much, my loving Father sweet. Lest that this frail and wicked flesh, should from sweet Jesus fleet I come again unto thee Lord, I do thee now imbrace, And turn to me thy countenance, thy favour and thy face. And bring me home unto thy fold, for I am gone astray, And wandred in an unknown path, which brought me to decay.
But now to thee my loving Lord, for mercy I do cry, Now hear my plaint sweet Jesus Christ and ease my misery. And when it is thy gracious will, that I this sinful life shall leave, Sweet Jesus Christ into thy hands I do my Soul bequeath: And here I do intreat thee Lord, from the bottom of my heart, That from my faith in Jesus Christ, I never do depart. But in the very pangs of death, to thee Lord may I cry, Receive my Soul into thy hands, for now to thee I flye: And be a Father loving Lord, unto thy Children small, Which I shall leave thee in this world, when thou dost for me call. Also I pray thee loving Lord, to give their mother grace, To train my Children in thy fear, that they may thee imbrace: And from the inticements of this world the flesh and filthy fiend, Lord aid them with thy mighty hand, and guide them to the end. That at the last and dreadful day, thou may'st receive us all, Under the cover of thy Wings, we may be free from thrall: And once again my loving Lord, I do thee hearty pray, Even for thy Son Christ Jesus sake, to wash our sins away.
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