seas of teares to shed for having thus often cruelly tormented thee 4 O if it had been thy will my sweetest Jesu I wish I might have endured not only temporall but endless pains rather then have caused the least part of thy affliction 5. O Sacred wounds of my dearest Saviour in revenge of my cruelty wound my heart with ten thousand darts of true remorse 6. O sin how deformed and unjust art thou that thus has't defiled the beauty of heaven and crucifyed my Immaculate Jesus 7. O that I might with a thousand millions of lives and infinit seas of blood blot out of my soule the guilt of thy death and Passion 8. Sweet Jesus ingulfe and drown me in thy sacred wounds that there I may learn to love Tuesday Compassion 1. O That I could shed for thee my Lord so many teares as the sea contains drops of water in true compassion of thy torments 2. O who will give water to my head and a fountain of teares to my eyes to weep upon thee the love of my soule 3. O love and only comfort of my heart what consolation hadst thou in all thy torments 4. Alas my well beloved why am not J alwaies present to suffer with thee at least by compassion on thy pains 5. My sweet JESUS O that I might be crucified with thee 6. O love of my soule that I might have had the priviledge of the launce to have rested in thy heart 7. My dearest Saviour permit me the favour to remain at the foot of thy Cross to the end that I may weep continually sigh bleed cry and consume in compassion of thee 8. Give me an endless spring of teares to wash away the sacred blood of my sweetest love which still issueth as flowing rivers from thee Wensday Imitation 1. O Most sweet JESUS give me grace in imitation of thy sacred Passion most willingly to undergoe the burthen of this transitory life 2. For that thou hast suffered so many and cruell torments for my sake let me never O mercifull God fly any tribulation which thou shalt vouchsafe to send me by thy self or others 3. My Jesus to accompany thee in thy manifold afflictions I would be glad not onely to endure the wants which thou sendest me but seek others and never be satisfied in suffering with thee 4. In imitation of thy nakedness reproaches and whippings at the pillar I will endeavour to strip my self of all inordinate desires and affections 5. I will continually follow thee my dearest Saviour with the Crosse of perfect obedience and never for any difficulty leave the same till I come to dy with thee 6. O my Eternall God that wouldst for my sake be nailed to the Cross let me by true mortification be alwaies crucified with thee 7. My loving spouse I beseech thee that with a full renunciation of my self and perpetuall death of all earthly things I may irrevocably dy with thee Thursday Thanksgiving 1. WHat thanks shall I yield unto thee my Eternall life who wouldst endure unspeakeable torments to free me from the snare and fetters of death 2. All you seraphins and celestiall Spirits with whatsoever hath been created praise my Redeemer for the unspeakeable price of my Redemption 3. O my soule how can'st thou devise to render the least part of due gratitude unto thy Jesus who hath by his own humility so much exalted thee 4. O let me ever acknowledge my deare Saviour that endless bond of gratitude which thy Passion alone exacteth of me 5. Sweet JESUS that I could incessantly love thee for these inestimable treasures which thou by thy torments hast purchased unto me 6. Good IESUS since I have nothing but my self to offer in requitall of thy infinit love I beseech thee to accept in love and gratitude what by-right is thy own 7. O eternall God that I had a thousand hearts and lives to offer unto thee who by thy death hast given and bequeathed thy self to me 8. Grant sweet IESUS that thy dolorous death and Passion be ever imprinted in my heart my true thankfulness and imitation thereof Friday Admiration O My God who art thou who hast endured so many and cruell torments sweet and dearest love hast thou forgotten thy Majesty and glory 2. O light of heaven and splendour of thy Fathers glory unto what art thou now reduced 3. Alas my Saviour what art thou who art so despightfully treated 4. O love of loves that through the excess of thy love thou wouldst for me endure so bitter a death 5. O love how strong art thou which with thy force surmounted'st him that by no other means may be overcome 6. O incomprehensible God for whom dost thou suffer but for miserable sinners ungratefull creatures thy enemies children of the divell and those who contemn thee 7. O dearest love that my heart is not pierced with thy dolours 8. What were it o Lord if I had all the loves of the world to unite and offer unto thee 9. My sweet IESUS if I could reduce all thy drops of blood into teares of love what were it compared unto thy love Saturday Ioy. 1. My heart and soule rejoyce and praise the mercies of my God who out of his infinit love hath died to give thee life 2. O my delight what joy will it give to my heart to receave that life that infinit good through the merits of thy most bitter and dolorous passion 3. Sweet JESUS I praise thee with eternall joy for having in thy most cruell death so perfectly accomplished the work of our Redemption 4. It was by thee O beloved Cross that peace hath been established between God and man 5. O triumphant glory and most puissant King who by thy most sacred death hast overcome the Prince of Hell and delivered our soules out of his bondage 6. O Heaven Earth sea and all things therein yield praises in our behalf unto the saviour of our soules and let us rejoyce in the merits of his sacred passion 7. If all my members were tongues O how willingly would I employ them in the praise of thee my sweet saviour and thy health-bringing wounds 8. O all yee celestiall spirits assist me to love and praise my God by the vertue of whose Passion your ruins are repaired 9. Sweet JESUS what glory and comfort is it unto human nature to be exalted in thee unto the right hand of thy Eternall father Sunday Love 1. When shall it be my crucified JESUS that both the senses of my body and powers of my soule shall be wholy employed in thy praise 2. O my JESUS when by perfect love and imitation shall I be daily crucified and continually dy with thee 3. O my beloved JESUS when shall I love thee in such sort as that thy sacred wounds be by burning love imprinted in my heart 4. O my beloved JESUS when wilt thou bring me into the wine cellar of thy blessed side and make me wholy drunke with the most sacred wine which floweth from
the Cross and with his sacred blood satisfy his Eternall Father for her demerits 4. That for her love he would remain in the holy Sacrament to feed her with his own blessed body and Cleanse her with his owne sacred blood A Prayer before receiving the B. Sacrament O Sweet JESUS J most ardently desire to receive you Sacramentally and spiritually although J know my self to be most unworthy you should enter into the house of my soule be favorable unto me wretched sinner and take from me whatsoever is displeasing unto you prepare in me and in all hearts a habitation agreable unto your divine Majesty Would to God O my sweet Saviour JESU would to God J were wholy enflamed with an ardent desire and love of you Behold J here renounce and give up to you all things O sweet JESU O JESU my love for ever A Prayer after receiving the B. Sacrament O Most sweet Lord JESUS CHRIST J humbly beseech thy unspeakable mercy that this holy Sacrament of thy pretious body and blood which J unworthy have received may be to me and to all sinners a full purgation of all our offences a strength against frailties a fortress to defend us against all perills both of soul and body an entire pardon and establishment in all grace an amendment of life a continuall memoriall of thy sacred Passion a nourishment against all spirituall weakness and a staff of our Pilgrimage let it my sweet Saviour JESUS guide us going reduce us straying receive us returning again hold us up stumbling lift us up falling and persevering bring us to glory O highest God let the reception of this most worthy Sacrament so alter the tast of our hearts that at no time we feel any sweetness love or desire and consolation admit any delight esteem any honour feare any adversity or even-live but for thee and to accomplish thy blessed will which may ever be perfected in us Amen Another Prayer O Most glorious and ever blessed Virgin Mary O holy Father S. Francis O holy Mother S. Clare S. Michaël Angels Archangells Vertues Powers Principalities Dominations Thrones Cherubins Seraphins and all celestiall Spirits J beseech you to prostrate before the face of my God and beseech him in favour of his most deare son my Saviour and Redeemer CHRIST JESUS that it will please him to pardon the unworthines and indevotion wherewith J have received the most blessed and dreadfall Sacrament and do not permit the same to cause that the spirit thereof be not communicated unto me also that by the vertue and efficacy of this holy Communion J may feel the effect of his divinë mercy that I may receive this day a full remission of all my sins true light and knowledge of his grace which is in me that be reduce and put me in such an estate as shall be most pleasing unto his divine Majesty augment in me faith hope charity obedience chastity and patience with all other vertues and gifts of the holy Ghost necessary to procure the glory of his divine Majesty and the salvation of my soule to the honour and praise of his holy name Amen What we ought to do the day we communicate 1. BE very careful to govern our sences especially our tongue and if it happen we fall by frailty we ought presently to crave pardon and beseech our sweet Saviour not therfore to absent himself from us 2. To render to this blessed guest all the best services we are able he being infinitely worthy to be served loved and adored of all creatures Wishing above all things his holy honour and pleasure 3. Seek still to entertain this blessed spouse with holy thoughts and desires beseeching him to give you and all others whatsoever he knoweth to be needfull for his love and service beleeving that he is inestimably rich and a most liberal giver 4. Do nothing that day without considering first whether the thing you do will be pleasing and agreable unto him and demand his permission and leave 5. Make fervent aspirations cast forth arrowes of divine love towards that most amiable and sweet Lord with a vehement desire of loving him infinitely and be wholy transformed into him by conformity of will Deo gratias A Prayer before Confession O Soverain Creatour of heaven and earth and of all things which in them are J worm and miserable wretch have offended your divine Majesty I wonder at my folly detest my ingratitude and lament my offences craving through the merits of the bitter Passion and death of your onely begotten son and the infinite love with which he did both offer and suffer them for my sake and for the whole world grant unto me and all sinners true knowledge and perfect contrition of our sins and offences with entire remission of them all loose us from the chaines of our imperfections and heale the wounds of our soules grant us ever to be purged and refreshed in the fountain of his holy wounds Amen A Prayer after Confession O Good IESU let this my Confession be gratefull and acceptable unto you by the merits of your admirable life and painfull death with all the labours anguishes and sorrowes which you suffered for mankind together with those of your B. Mother and all your holy Saints supplying whatsoever is wanting in me either now or any other time through want of true contrition entire confession or full satisfaction beseeching they may also be unto me light direction and strength in all my wayes unto the perfect possession of you my sweet IESU in eternall glory Amen Directions how to say the Divine Office with due devotion and attention WHat care we ought to have in saying the divine Office according to the examples of the holy men is witten in the 27. Chapter of Paralipomenon Despise not your self our Lord hath chosen you to stand before him and adore him Wherfore since God hath chosen man to so high a preferment it is very requisit we should know how and in what manner humble service doth consist The holy man Gerson affirmeth that in saying your Mattins and other houres carefully and studiously leasurely and distinctly consisteth the greatest exercise of a Religious man and is so fit for him as nothing more S. Benedict doth call this the worke of our Lord especially because it it is the chiefest office that any man can perform gratefull to the divine Majesty S. Jerome doth affirm that to offer up Hymns Psalmes and spirituall prayers and to shed teares for our own offences and those of our neighbour is to reconcile the people to God and to pacify our Lord with his flock all which things are to be accomplished in the divine office Wherfore we ought very diligently to apply our whole study and inward powers to the due execution thereof least perhaps that dreadfull sentence pronounced by the Prophet Jeremy c. 48. v. 10. fall upon us maledictus qui facit opus Domini fraudulenter Artursd be be who do's our lords worke negligently
Three sorts of preparation for saying the Divine Offices THe first of living well which is to be exercised in doing all pious works to restrain our selves from all vanities and daily to keep our hearts free and pure from all things that may in the least sort soyle them alwaies directing our thoughts and works whatsoever unto Almighty God and his honour The 2. is that before we begin the Divine Office we be carefull to recollect our spirits excluding all forrain thoughts or whatsoever may give us distraction in our Divine Office considering seriously what wee are going bouâ—… It behoveth us also diligently to weigh these things following That we come To worship God To thank God To intreate God First we come to worship God in three persons and one essence with the worship of Patria which is due to God alone for the benefit of justification that is the Incarnation of his only son our B. Saviour his life death Resurrection and Ascension which Mysteries we ought carefully to consider and ponder with great devotion and reverence 2. We come to thank God in praysing him for the great benefits which we have received and do momentarily receive and hope to receive herafter Therfore it is requisit that we behold and renew the same every houre and moment of our life but especially when we are so particularly employed in a worke that hath so great relation and adherence thereunto 3. We go to intreat God in beseeching his most immeasurable clemency for our own necessities and those of the whole Church but to bring all these particulars with more facility to our mind it will assist us much attentively to think that nothing is more necessary or profitable for us then God The 3. Preparation is a zealous prayer which we must make to the end we may worthily finish the task of our devotions and in imitation of the three Kings offer to his divine goodnes the gold of devotion the frankincense of attention and the Myrrhe of constant perseverance Being to begin the Office you may say I adore thee O Christ and bless thee O Lord for by thy Cross and Passion thou hast redeemed the world Thou art my God and I will exalt thee To thee be praise To thee be glory To thee be thanks giving for ever All creatures worthily worship thee praise glorify and adore the most high and undivided Trinity and the humanity of my blessed Lord Jesu who in time past was conversant with men upon earth and now sits at the right hand of his Eternall Father J beseech the Holy Virgin with the holy Angels and Saints and those whose feasts are celebrated this day throughout the whole Church that they will all help me with their aid and furtherance to the end I may finish this my office worthily to the true praise of Almighty God and the profit of my soule Amen For the Prayer before the lesser Houres take either REX CHRISTE c. or the Prayer following O Good Jesu I desire for the love and honour which I owe unto you humbly to obey you faithfully to serve you and purely to love you in union of that most perfect attention which you being here on Earth prayed and praised your heavenly Father Help me O Lord Jesu with your holy grace for being left by you I shall be able to do nothing Amen Devout Meditations at Gloria Patri GLory be to the Father who when I was not hath created me Glory be to the son who when I was lost hath redeemed me Glory be to the Holy Ghost who hath sanctified me and the elect of God Here ensue certain holy Meditations of the 7. Effusions distributed for the Canonical Houres At Matins COnsider with devotion and yield manifold thanks to our B. Saviour for the effusion of his pretious blood and suffererings in his Circumcision offering the dolours and pains of the said effusion to God the Father for all those that are in state of mortall sin that it would please his divine goodnes to give them a perfect knowledge of their offences with contrition confession satisfaction and amendment At Laudes POnder and give thanks for the dolorousness pain and effusion of blood which our Saviour CHRIST JESUS endured in the garden a little before he was apprehended and taken where with great pain and agony he sweat blood and water offering this spiritually unto God the Father for those that are in the state of grace favour and love of God and his holy name that it would please him to conserve them in that state and purity At Prime YIeld many thanks for the pain and effusion of blood which our B. saviour CHRIST JESUS suffered in his flagellation offering it up unto God the Father for all those that are in any affliction or tribulation be it spirituall or corporall beseeching his divine Majesty to conserve each one of them as he knoweth to be most to his honour and the health of their soules At Tierce IN devout contemplation give Many thanks unto God our sweet Saviour CHRIST IESUS for the effusion of his most precious blood which he endured in his crowning with thorns offering it to God the Father for our parents kinred and benefactours and all for whom wee are any wayes obliged to pray beseeching him to give them his holy grace to live in his true love and feare and at their death to possess everlasting life At Sext. YIeld manyfold thanks unto our B. Saviour IESUS for the paines and effusion of his pretious blood which issued forth of his hands and feet being nailed on the Cross offering it to God the Father for the state of our holy Mother the church that the Popes holines and all Ecclesiasticall Powers may be exalted to the increase of his honour and have grace strength and ability well to discharge what is committed to them therein At None GIve manifold thanks unto our B. Saviour for the effusion and shedding of his sacred blood when nayled to the Cross his most holy side was pierced with a lance offering it to God the Father for the Conversion of all Hereticks particularly for England that it would please him to enlighten them with his holy grace to know and embrace the truth that they with all others may in union and perfect charity love praise and magnify him everlastingly At Evensong CAll to mind the dolorous Mystery of our B. Saviours taking from the Cross and lying in the lapp of his Mother offering it to God the Father for all religious persons who are especially dedicated unto his holy service beseeching his divine goodnes to give each one of them grace perfectly to perforn his holy will even unto death to live vertuously in the observance of their institutes and persever therein untill the end At Compline COnsider how our B. Saviour being dead and his holy body taken down from the Cross it was by our B. Lady S. Mary Magdalen and other holy persons laid in the sepulcher whilest
to rain down by his power plenty of pious thoughts to possess your memory God the son the true light and wisdom to illuminate and instruct your Understanding with heavenly knowledge God the Holy Ghost who is an infinit burning fire of charity to enflame your will with pious affections The 2. Condition of Mentall Prayer is Preambles which are for the most part three 1. THe fitst whereof is a tepetition to your self as you would to another of the matter sentence or verse of which you are to meditate 2. The 2. if the matter be Historicall is to represent unto your self the place and persons present As for example Meditating some Mystery of Christ put before your eyes some mountain citty or desert fitting the place to the Mistery or sentence which you are to consider If what you purpose to meditate be spirituall matter void of such similitude abstain from the 2. Preamble accordingly If of Hell think of the length breadth and depth of that horrid place with all things that may give horrour unto If of Heaven represent the spacious pleasantness of that Celestiall Country If on death your self lying on your death bed or laid in your grave If on Judgement our sweet Saviour sitting on his Judgment seat If on sin your soule to be held prisoner in your body fettered with chaines of disordered passions and clogged with the burden of the flesh But if the sentence of your Meditation be such as cannot make these nor the former similitudes call to mind who spoke or did it in what manner sort or with what intention reciting that sentence two or three times unto your self which manner you must also accustome in all sorts of Meditations expecting what it shall please God to teach you therfore saying Speak Lord thy servant heareth 3. The 3. Preamble or petition is briefly to crave light and knowledge of the Mystery you meditate on and grace to stirr up in your self such particular good affections of this or that vertue as you shall see the matter is most apt to minister occasion for your spirituall profit The 3. Condition of mentall Prayer is Meditation which consisteth in the three powers of the soule 1. FIrst let the memory remember to call to mind the presence of Almighty God before whom you are to chuse the matter whereon you are to meditate in what manner you are to do it and the end wherfore 2. Secondly the Understanding must discourse of the matter whether it be of some person as of our Saviour some words of holy scripture some actions as of the Passion of CHRIST JESUS or the suffering of his Saints the verity cause properties effects conveniences and circumstances as WHO WHAT WHY WHERE WHEN BY WHAT MEANS And this is not to be don slightly but very seriously so as they may move the will pondering and as it were shewing them again 3. Thirdly the will must stirr up in it self these affections and make such good purposes as the subject doth require and the understanding hath before approved for good seeking to perform towards God 1. The affections of praise of his holy name 2. Love of his goodness 3. Confidence in his mercy 4. Faith in his verity 5. Feare of his justice 6. Gratitude for his benefits Towards your self affections of love or hatred desire or disdain joy or sorrow conversion or aversion feare or hope dislike or pursuit of the matter which you have discovered and in these of the will you must incite and stay your self in every point of your meditation How to proceed with fruit in every point of your Meditation FIrst the memory is to present the matter unto the understanding as is above said and that is to consider the persons actions and circumstances as is set down and when by discourse and particular view of the matter you shal sufficiently understand any speciall point to move affections as to discover Gods goodness love or any benefit don towards us by him example of vertue or difformity of vice then stay that discourse and seek to stirr up such good affections as the matter will most aptly afford As for example when by discourse you have found the goodness of God or some great benefit of him to us then stay love view and admire him for the greatnes thereof inciting your self to have a perpetuall memory and acknowledgment of them drawing somthing for your instruction and encouragement to his most perfect service and your own progress in vertue This is a great part of the fruit which you are to reap of Meditation the which you must perfect by colloquy and Prayer Helps if the will do's not yield unto those affections which you desire REflect with your self what affections such cōsiderations ought to move in you towards God whose love goodnes and benefits you see to be so great and you have deserved so little the which consideration ought to produce in you exceeding great love praise gratitude obedience confidence c. Then come to your will again and see whether it will yield to those affections If it do not then labour to move it either by such persuasions as you would give to another whom you desire to incite to the same affections Or else reprove your dulness or ask your self the question why you should not yield thereunto seeing that you can remember your self and others to be exceedingly moved unto such affections towards creatures for less motives And again say Why should not I feel the like to my Creatour or at least yield with my will to desire it and purpose the same Then have recourse to Prayer and say O my God J will purpose c. J desire you to assist me with your grace confessing your misery and unworthines beseeching him to be your help And somtimes say these words of Jacob I will not leave thee O Lord untill thou givestme thy blessing or those of the Cananean woman Yes Lord I am a dog yet doggs eate the crums which fall from their Maisters table or other such like And thus having at least by some meanes or other stirred up the foresaid affections though not so fervently as we desire persever in exercising the will drawing forth somthing for your profit This example in due proportion may serve to teach you how to proceed upon any other matter as when you have by discourse discovered any vertue or vice in some word deed or thought of some person who is presented in the Meditation first by staying or pondering or sometimes admiring how worthy a thing that vertue is in that person and how foule the vice the fruit and profit which ariseth of the one and the loss and shame of the other Then proceed as you will to move and stirr up the affection you seek never contenting your self with generall affections be they never so fervent nor spend to much time in them but make some particular resolutions of which you stand in most need for the advancement and correction of
thy loving heart 5. O when shall it be my dearest JESU that the flame of thy love shall pierce and wound my heart that I may be wholy conformable unto thee 6. Sweet JESUS let me love thee so unfainedly as that by force of thy love I neither feel see nor take comfort in any thing but accompanyng thee my afflicted Lord. 7. My sweetest Saviour when shall I have my full and wisht repose within thy crucified armes 8. O sacred wounds of my JESUS especially of his tender side and most amourous heart why do you not burn and consume my soule in the delightfull flames of his love An Oblation unto our B. Lady to say on any one of her Feasts 70. Ave Maries and then during every day 5. Ave's and these Prayers following 1. O B. Virgin Mary and Eternall Queen of Angels I offer my self unto you in all that I am or ever shall be beseeching you to receive me as your own 2. O B. Virgin Mary preserve me living and dyng from all evill for I am your own 3. O B. Virgin Mary receive me for your own ever govern and protect me as your own and have mercy on my soule when it shall part out of my body 4. O mercifull Mother through your holy departure make joyfull my departure and in the houre of my death receive my soule A Prayer to Iesus Christ ANima Christi sanctifica me Corpus Christi salva me Sanguis Christi inebria me Aqua lateris Christi lava me Passio Christi conforta me O bone IESV exaudi me Intrà tua vulnera absconde me Ne permittas me separari à te Ab hoste maligno defende me In hora mortis meae voca me Et jube me venire ad te Vt cum Sanctis tuis laudem Te In saecula saeculorum Amen In English thus SOule of Christ sanctify me Body of Christ save me Blood of Christ inebriate me Water of Christ's side wash me Passion of Christ comfort me O good JESU heare me Within thy wounds hide me Suffer me not to be separated from thee From the malignant enemy defend me In the houre of my death call me And bid me come to thee That with thy Saints I may praise thee For ever and ever Amen When you passe by the B. Sacrament DVlcissimum nomen Domini nostri Iesu Christi gloriosae Virginis Mariae Matris ejus sit in aeternum benedictum In English Let the B. Name of our Lord JESUS CHRIST and the glorious VIRGIN MARY his MOTHER be blessed for ever and ever And then offer your intention herein to get the pardon which is gained When you take Holy water Aqua benedicta sit nobis salus protectio vita Asperges me Domine hissopo c. In English May this holy water be to us health protection and life Thou shalt sprinkle me o Lord with hissope c. How we may honour the most holy and B. Name of the most glorious Virgin Mary by sayng these 5. Verses with 5. Psalmes 1. MAter amabilis Maria nomine Multò nobilior quocunque lumine Muni me miserum in tuo nomine Malignis obvians tuo juvamine Magnificat 2. Aurora rutilans lunâque pulchrior Astris fulgentior luce clarior Afflictum respice qui nimis crucior Averte jaculum hostis quo ferior Ad Dominum cum tribularer 3. Regina nobilis filia filii Rosae consimilis flori lilii Refove flebiles lacte consilii Ruentes per dies huius exilii Retribue servo tuo 4. Iesse tu congruè vocata virgula Immarcessibilis sine macula IESV jam florid o qui regit saecula Ipsa tu suggere ut solvat vincula In Convertendo 5. Ancilla Domini sumens tam nobilis Ave quod Gabriel dedit mirabilis Accipe canticum servi inutilis Adsis in omnibus mihi placabilis Ad te levavi ℣ Dignare me laudare te Virgo sacrata ℟ Da mihi virtutem contra hostes tuos OREMUS COncede nos famulos tuos quaesumus Domine Deus perpetuá mentis corporis sanitate gaudere glorio â B. Mariae Virginis intercessione à praesenti liberari tristitia aeternâ perfrui laetitiâ Per Christum Domenum nostrum Amen The 5. Verses Englished 1. O Amiable Mother ô Mary hail by name More noble then the light of natur's frame Defend me by your meanes which way so'ere J goe And by your shelt'ring help preserve me from my foe 2. Bright shining dawn fairer then the moon More sparkling then the starres and brighter then the sun Look on me wretch afflicted and tormented so As to put by those darts my foes do at me thr'o 3. O noble queen and daughter to thy son Like to the Rose and Flower-de-Luce at noone 'T is milk of your good counsel must cherish us that weep 'T is you that from all banish't ruin's must us keep 4. You are the rod of Jesse fittly nam'd You neyther wither nor with spot are sham'd Pray to our Jesus who the world doe's rule That J from bonds of sin may save my soule 5. O handmaid of our Lord who took the noble haile From wond'rous Gabriel's mouth the world 's great baile Receive the sacred Cantick your worthless servant sing's And gratious be to me sweet Mary in all things LITANIAE B. P. N. FRANCISCI KYRIE eleïson Christe eleïson Kyrie eleïson Christe audi nos Christe exaudi nos Pater de caelis Deus Miserere nobis Fili Redemptor mundi Deus Miserere nobis Spiritus sancte Deus Miserere nobis Sancta Trinitas unus Deus Miserere nobis Sancte Francisce Pater amabilis ora pro nobis Pater admirabilis Pater benigne Pater venerabilis Vexillifer Jesu Christi ORA PRO NOBIS Eques Crucifixi Imitator filii Dei Seraphim ardens Fornax Charitatis Arca Sanctitatis Cultor pacis Vas Puritatis Norma Justitiae Speculum Pudicitiae Regula Poenitentiae Magister Obedientiae Exemplar Virtutum Patriarcha Pauperum Profligator Criminum Lumen tuae Patriae Decus Morum Vivificator Mortuorum Saturator Famelicorum Obsequium Leprosorum ORA PRO NOBIS Praeco magni Regis Forma Humilitatis Consors Sublimitatis Victor Vitiorum Dux Minorum Praedicator Silvestrium Portans dona Gloriae Auriga militiae nostrae Novis utens Prodigiis Caelum caecis aperiens Gratum gerens obsequium Templum Christo consecrans Hostes malignos proterens Tenens vitae bravium Spargens virtutum munera Amplians iter ad Gloriam Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Parce nobis Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Exaudi nos Domine Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi Miserere nobis ℣ Ora pro nobis beate Pater Francisce ℟ Ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi OREMUS DEus qui Ecclesiā tuā B. Fraucisci meritis foetu novae prolis amplificas tribue nobis ex ejus imitatione terrena despicere caelestium donorum semper participatione gaudere Per Dominum