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               <witness xml:id="W" corresp="#w">Williams MS. Jones B62</witness>
               <witness xml:id="B" corresp="#b">Bodleian MS. Tanner 307</witness>
               <witness xml:id="T" corresp="#t">The Temple (1633)</witness>
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                  <rdg wit="#W"><hi rend="underscore">A Wreath.</hi></rdg>
                  <rdg wit="#B"><hi rend="underscore">A wreath.</hi></rdg>
                  <rdg wit="#T">¶ A Wreath.</rdg>
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                     <rdg wit="#W">A wrethed garland of deserved praise</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">A wreathed Garland of deserued praise,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T"><hi rend="drop2">A</hi> Wreathed garland of deſerved
                        praiſe,</rdg>
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               <l n="2">
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                     <rdg wit="#W">Of praise deserved vnto thee I give</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Of praise deserued vnto thee I giue,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">&#8195;&#8195;&#8195;Of praiſe deſerved, unto thee I give,</rdg>
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               <l n="3">
                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">I give to thee who knowest all my wayes</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">I giue to thee, who knowest all my waies,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">I give to thee, who knoweﬅ all my wayes,</rdg>
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               <l n="4">
                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">My crooked winding wayes wherein I live</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">My crooked winding waies, wherein I liue,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">My crooked winding wayes, wherein I live,</rdg>
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               <l n="5">
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                     <rdg wit="#W">Wherein I die not live: for life is strait</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Wherein I dy, not liue: for life is strait,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">Wherein I die, not live: for life is ﬅraight,</rdg>
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                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">Strait as a line, and euer tends to thee</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Strait as a line, &amp; euer tends to thee,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">Straight as a line, and ever tends to thee,</rdg>
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                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">To thee who art more farr aboue deceit</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">To thee, who art more farre aboue deceit,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">To thee, who art more farre above deceit,</rdg>
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               <l n="8" real="A|A|I|I/">
                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">Then deceit seems aboue simplicity.</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Then deceit seemes aboue simplicitie.</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">Then deceit ſeems above <g ref="#silig">ſi</g>mplicitie.</rdg>
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                     <rdg wit="#W">Give mee simplicitie, that I may live</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Giue mee simplicitie, y<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> I may
                        liue,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">Give me <g ref="#silig">ſi</g>mplicitie, that I may live,</rdg>
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                     <rdg wit="#W">So live &amp; like that I may know thy wayes</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">So liue &amp; like, y<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> I may know thy
                        waies,</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">So live and like, that I may know thy wayes,</rdg>
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               <l n="11" real="D|D|T|I/">
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                     <rdg wit="#W">Know them &amp; practice them, then shal I give</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">Know them &amp; practize them, then shall I giue</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">Know them and pra<g ref="#ctlig">ct</g>iſe them: then <g
                           ref="#shlig">ſh</g>all I give</rdg>
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               <l n="12" real="P|S|I|I|I/">
                  <app>
                     <rdg wit="#W">ffor this poore wreth, give thee a Crowne of Praiſe.</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#B">For this poore wreath, giue thee a crowne of praise.</rdg>
                     <rdg wit="#T">For this poore wreath, give thee a crown of praiſe.</rdg>
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