deliuer me to thy sonne Can a mother forget the child she bare of her wōb and sureli although she sōtimes be forgetful yet thou O father hast promised not to forget vs. Behold I cry and thou dost not heare me ▪ I am vexed with sorow and thou confortest me not What shall I say or what shall I doo most wretched caitife that I am I beīg desolate of so great comforte am cast out from the sight of thine eyes Wo be vnto me from how great goodnes into how great a mischefe am I fallen whether purposed I to go and whether am I comen Where am I and where am I not whom did I study to attein ▪ vnto and what euils haue I obteyned I sought for good thīgs and beholde I haue found trouble care Behold now I am in the state of deathe and Iesus is not with me And surely it were better for me to haue nothing at all yea no beyng at all thē to be without Iesu. It is better not to liue then to liue without life And thou O Lorde Iesu where be thine olde mercies wilt thou be angry towardes me for euer Be pacified I beseche thee and haue mercy vpon me and turne not thy face away frō me which to thintēt thou mightest redeme me didst not turne a way thy face from thē that rebuked thee and spitted vpon thee I confes and acknowledge that I haue sinned and my conscience deserueth damnacion and the penaunce that I am able to doo is not sufficient to make amēds for mine iniquities But sure certain I am that thy mercy exceadeth all offences that a man can doo Oh doo not I beseche thee most pitifull Lorde write my heynous sinnes against me y t thou shuldest entre into iudgement with thy seruaunt But ac cording to the multitude of thy mercies cros blot out mine in iquities Wo be vnto me wretch that I am when the day of iudg ment commeth and the bookes of consciences shalbe layd wide open when it shalbe said of me Lo looke vpon this felow his wurkes What shall I doo then O Lorde my God when the hea uens shall reuele and shew forth mine iniquitie the earth shall arise vp and testifie mine iniquitie against me Beholde I shalbe able to geue neuer one wurd to answer but to stande in thy presence trimbling quaking vtterly confounded and holding downe my head for shame Alas wretch that I am what shall I say I will cry vnto thee o lorde my God Why am I consumed fretted with holdīg my peace But if I should speak my greef would not cease And if I hold my peace I shalbe most bitterly vexed within me Mourne o my soule lament as a widow for her first husbande that she had in her yong age Houle wretche cry out with weping because thy spouse Christ hathe forsaken thee O God almightie let not thine angre fall vpō me because that if thou lay somuche to my charge as is dew for my sinnes it is so muche that I can not receiue it Sureli my power is not able for to suffre or beare it Haue merci vpon me least I dispeire But in despeiring I will take hart to me and be sōwhat cōforted For all though I haue committed so muche that thou mayst condemne me wurthely yet thou hast not lost that wherwith thou wast wont to saue sin ners nether dost thou reioise at the destructiō los of them that dye yea to thintente that dead men might liue thou thy felf didst die and thy deathe did kill the deathe of sinnes And if they were reuiued again and did liue by thy deathe I besech thee let not me die now y tthou liuest Send downe thy hand power from hie and deliuer me out of the hands of mine enemies that they reioyse not ouer me and say let vs deuoure him Who euer O good Ie su needed to mistrust of thimerci which whē we were thine enemies didstredeme vs with thy blud and reconciled vs vnto God Beholde I being hid vnder the shadow of thy mer cy doo come vnto the throne of thy glory requiring I doo rū crying and knocking vntil thou take pitie vppon me For if thou didst call vs to pardon forgeuenes before we laboured for pardon how soone shall we obtein forgeuenes when we aske it Doo not remembre omost boūtefull Iesu thy iustice toward a sinner but think vpon thy liberalitie gentlenes towarde thy creature Doo not remēbre thine angre toward the giltie but remembre thy pity and mercy toward a wretche Forget me in y t I proudly did prouoke moue thee to wrath and look vppon a wretche that calleth vpon thee For what is Iesus but a sauior Therfore good Iesu for thine owne sake arise and helpe me and say vnto my soule I am thy health and thy safegarde I presume muche and am very bolde of thy goodnes O Lord because thou doost teache vs to aske to seek and to knocke wherfore I being admonished by thy wurd doo aske seek and knock And thou O Lorde that commaundest vs to aske make me able to receiue Thou that geuest councell to seeke graunte that I may finde Thou that teachest vs to knock opē to me when I knock and confirme me whiche am vnstable and wauering restore me that am lost raise me y t am dead and vouchsafe to direct gouern in thy fauoure all my sences my thoughts and dooings that frō hensfoorth I may serue thee I may liue toward thee and that I may commit my self vnto thee I knowe O my Lord that thorow this that thou hast made me I owe and am in det vnto thee euen mine owne selfe because thou hast redemed me and wast made man for my sake for this I say I owe vnto thee more thē my selfe Lo I haue no more nether can I geue that whiche I haue vnto thee without thee But doo thou take me and draw me vnto thee y t I may be thine in folowing louing thee like as I am thine in condicion creation whiche liuest and reignest world without ende Amen FINIS O God the Father of heauen haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners O God the father of heauen c O God the sonne redemer of the world haue mercy vpon vs myserable sinners O God the sonne redemer of c. O God y e holy Ghost proceding frō the Father the sōne haue mercy vpō vs miserable sinners O God the holi Ghost proceding c O holy blessed glorious Trinitie thre persōs one god haue merci vpō vs miserable sinners O holy blessed and glorious c. Remember not Lorde our offēces nor the offēces of oure forefathers nether take thou vengeaunce of oure sinnes Spare vs good lord spare thy people whō thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud and be not angry with vs for euer Spare vs good Lorde From all euill mischief from sinne from the crafts
pity and goodnesses sake to haue mercy vpon mine impitie wickednes Make open mine eares to thy cōmaūdemēts let not mine hart be enclined I beseeche thee by thy holy name to any euill thing to be minded as the vngodly or wicked men I re quire the also by thy merueilous humilitie that I bee not moued with pride nor yet with sinners ☞ Here dooth man declare vnto God the father that the Passiō of his sōne was for his reconciliation and attonement with God BEhold O almighty God father of my Lorde I beseeche thee of thy beningnitie and gentlenes to haue mercy vpon me because of y e moste precious thīg that I could finde the same I haue offred deuoutly vnto thee the thing of moste estemacion y tI could imagin I haue presented it humbly vnto thee I haue left nothyng but I haue declared it to thy maiestie There is nothing remaining that I may ad more because I haue cōmitted and be taken my whole hope vnto thee I haue sent vnto thee my aduocate and spokes man euen thy well beloued sonne I haue sent thy glorious childe to be a mediator betwix me thee I haue set I say an intercessour by whome I trust to get pardon and forgeuenes of my sinns I haue sent wurd vnto wurd that is God vnto God according to that whiche saint Ihon hathe in y e beginning of his gospel wher he calleth God the wurd saying in the beginning was the wurd and the wurd was with God God was the wurd c. whiche wurd as I haue said was sent for my misdedes And I haue rehersed vnto thee the passion of thy moste holy sonne which passiō I beleue was suffred for me I beleeue that the godhed which was sent of thee did take vpon him mine humanitie nature in the whiche he thought not scorn to suffre buffets bendes spittings mocks yea he took vpon him to suffer y e cros nailes and dart I beleeue also that his māhod being in this my nature during his infancie was trobled with creeping and scraulings was wrapt in clothes after the maner of other childrē was vexed in his youth with labours made lene with waking fastings weried with iourneying afterward whipped all to torn and rent with diuers kindes of punishments rekened amongst the dead and whan it was endued with the glory of resurrectiō he caried it into the ioyes of heauen placed it vpon the righthād of thy maiestie This I say he is my manhod wai meanes of pacifying and appeasing thee and thy way and meanes of hauing mercy vpon me Mercifully look vpon hear the sōne whiche thou didst beget the bond seruāt whiche he redemed Beholde here a creator and doo not despise a creature Receiue the shepherd welcomed with a gentle louing countenance and mercifully looke vpō the sheep whiche he hathe brought home vppon his owne shoulders This is that moste faithfull shepherd whiche by mani and diuers labours and trauailes ouer steep hilles and thorow hedlong and deepe valies did serche for his owne sheep that was straide away whiche also when he had founde it faint and allmoste dead thorow long wanderyng gat him self vnder it with greate reioising and making it faste vnto him with a merueilous bonde of charitie lifted it vp out of the depth of confusion and brought it home to the nintie and nine Behold O Lorde my king and God almighty beholde a good shepherd whiche rēdreth to thee that whiche thou committed to his charge He tooke vpon him thorow thine ordinaūce to saue man whō he hath deliuered vnto the cleane and pure from all spots thorow the washing in his bloud Loe thy most deerly beloued sonne hathe reconciled vnto thee thy hādy wurk whiche was gon astray far out of the way Lo a gentle shepherd bringeth again to thy flock him that the violent pirate robber had driuen away He hath brought vnto thy sight y e seruaunt whō his owne conscience had made to rū away that he which by him self had deserued punishmēt by thy sonne being his sollicitour hath deserued forgeuenes vnto whō also for his offences euerlasting fier was due neuertheles being a souldiour vnder suche a captain he doth hope to be brought home to his owne countrey I was able O holy Father by my self to offēd thee but I was not able of my self to pacify and appese thee Thy welbeloued sōne O my God was made my helper by taking vpon him mine humanitie to y e intent he might cure mine infirmitie that wherof the first occasion of thy wrath did spring of the same he might offer vp to thee a Sacrifice of praise And that he might rēdre make me also well pleasing to to thy goodnes by that thing in the which he sitting now on thy right hand did alwayes shew declare him self to be equal with my substance as it wer felow with the same Lo my hope behold in whom is all my trust If thou despise me as it wer right for mine iniquitie yet look vpō me at the least wise mercifully for the charitie of thy beloued sonne Geue heed to thy sonne wherby thou maist haue mercy vpō thy bond seruant Look vppon the sacrament of flesh pardon the offences of flesh How oft so euer thou doost remember the woundes of thy blessed sōne so oft I beseche thee let mine in iquities be hid And because flesh hath stirred thee to angre let fleshe I beseech thee moue thee to mercy that like as fleshe hath seduced led me to sin so fleshe may get obtein for me remissiō For certainly it is muche y tmine iniquitie hath deserued but much more is it that the goodnes of my redemer may euen of right require Mine vnrightousnes is great but his righteousnes is bigger For loke how much god is superior vnto man euen so muche is my malice and euil inferior vnto his goodnes bothe in qualitie and quātitie For what haue I sinned being a man that the sonne of God beeing made man hath not redeemed what pride could be in me so exceding hie but suche humilitie as was in him shuld bring it downe what power of deathe was there in me so great but the punishment whiche the Sonne of God suffred vpon the cros migght de face it vtterly destroy it Truly my God if the sinnes of sinfull man should be wayed in a iust equall balance with the loue fauor that was in oure redemer toward vs the East is not so far distant from the West nor the innermost parte of the earth so muche separated from the vpper most parte of the heauē as they should be vnlike so muche les should mine iniquitie be then is his goodnes Now O moste noble creator of light now pardē mine offences for the vnmeasurable trauailes and paines that thy beloued sonne did sustein Now I beseeche thee let his goodnes bee set against my wickednes his modesty and temperaūce against
mine vngracious frowardnes and his meeknes against my ferse crueltie Let his humilitie recompence my pride his pacience mine impacience his gentlenes mine vnkinde churlishnes his obedience my disobedience his quyetnes mine vnquietnes his plesaūt towardnes my bitter frowardnes his sweet facilitie and gentlenes mine anger and freating fumes to cōclude let his charitie make amendes for my hemous and dedetestable crueltie Amen ¶ A deuout Prayer to the holy Ghost NOw O almighty and holy Ghost whiche art the loue of the deuine power the holy participator partner with the almighty father and his moste blessed sōne the moste mercifull comforter of the sorowful I beseeche thee to slide by thy mighty power into thinward partes of mine hart that thou dwelling there maist make glad and as it were lighten euery dark corner of the neglect and forletten cōtage w t the bright shining of thy lyght that in visiting y e same y u wouldest ornate deck with y e plenteousnes of thy dew y e lothsome places therof whiche be corrupted with filthines Kin del the preuy wounded partes of the inner man with thy holsom flames and with pearcing the in ward partes of my soul entrails with the dart of thy loue Feed all the inner partes bo the of my minde body by the illuminating and lightening with y e fire of thy holy feruent loue Geue me to drink of thy most pleasaūt riuer to thintent I may haue no lust to taste any worldly things whiche be mixed with poyson Geue sentēce with me o lorde and defend my cause against the vngodly nation Teache me to doo thy wil because thou art my God For I beleue that in whō so euer thou doost dwell thou buildest an hous in him for the Father also the Sonne Blessed is that man that getteth such a gest because that by thee y e father and the sōne also will dwel and abide with him Come now O moste louing cōforter of my sorowful soule whiche art a pro tector in all necessities and an help in troubles and aduersities Como purger of sinnes healer and curer of woūdes Come the strength of the fraill and feeble the releeuer and raiser vp of thē that slide Come the instructer reacher of the humble and meek the destroyer and plucker down of the proud and stubbern Com the good and kinde father of the fatherles the gētle iudge of widowes Come thou whiche art a gide vnto them that ar tossed in the waues of this tempestuous world like as a bright and notable star is to them that sail on the sea an hauen vnto thē that are afraid of shipwrak Com the wurship honor of all them that liue the only health of the dead Come most holi ghost come and haue mercy on me make me meete for thee and mercifully graunt vnto me according to y e multitud of thy great mercies y tmy basenes may please thy maiestie and my weaknes thy allmighty power for Iesu Christe my sauioures sake which with the fathers and thine vnitie liueth and reigneth worlde without end Amen ☞ A prayer to the holi Trinitie WIth all my hart and mouthe doo I confesse praise blesse thee O God the father vnbegot ten and thee O God the sonne only begotten also thee O holy ghost and comfortour to thee be glory in the world of worldes Amen An acknowledging of almighty God and his Maiesty O Most high Trinitie one only power and vndeuided Ma iesty our God God almighty I the abiect and hin moste of al thy seruaunts confes and acknowledge thee and beeing the least mēbre of thy church I wurship thee w t a due sacrifice of praise for as much as I am able can according to that whiche thou hast vouchsafed to endue me w tal And for as muche as I am destitute of outward gifts to offer vnto the. Those vowes of praise whiche I haue of the gift of thy mercy behold willingly gladly I offer them to thee which be an vnfained faith and a pure cōsciece I beleue therfore with all my hart O king of heauen and Lorde of the earth and with my mouthe doo I confes thee the father the sonne and holy ghost to bee three in persons and one in substaunce the true and very God almighty of one simple in corporal and inuinsible nature incomprehensible and of suche a nature as is not in a place as other natures bee and that thou hast nothing superiour or aboue thy selfe or lower or any thing bigger then thy self But in all maner of meanes perfect with out all spot of deformitie that thou art great without quantitie good without qualitie euer lasting without time life without death strong without infirmity or wekenes true without lying presēt in euery place with out any situatiō or being placed in any place to be al eueri where w tout place fulfilling all things without stretchīg forth thy hād going euery where without any contradiction or gaine saying passing ouer al thinges without mouing abiding win all things without ani kinde of proportiō making al thinges hauing need of nothing gouerning al things without labor geuing all thinges their beginning hauing no beginning thy selfe Making all thinges mutable and variable thy self being without all kinde of mutabilitie in greatnes with oute measure in power almighty in goodnes the cheef best in wisdome inestimable in counsels intentes purposes terrible and fearfull In iudgmentes most vpright iust in cogitations thoughtes most secret in wurdes true in wurkes holy in mercies abundant plentiful toward offenders most patiēt to ward the penitēt and those that be sory for their sinnes most gen tle louing Alwayes the same euerlasting and continually cōtinuing immortall and in commutable impossible to be chaūged or altered whom nether the amplitude or largenes of places doth make bigger nor the short nes or littlenes of places lesser nor any places or corners can cō teine or pres together neyther dooth thy will or intent vary or alter nor familiaritie or acquaītance corrupte thee nor sorowful things trouble or amase the nor glad thinges make thee plesaunt or frolike as a man wold say from thee can forgetfulnes take nothing nor mindfulnes or remembraunce geue any thing nether are things passed vnto vs passed also vnto thee nor things whiche to vs are to come come toward thee for nether beeginning dooth geue any beginning to thee nor time any increase nor yet chaunce geueth thee any end But before all worldes and in worldes and by worldes into euerlasting thou doost liue and thou hast continual praise perpetuall glory moste hie power singuler honor euerlasting king dom and rule and imperie without end thorow the infinit and vnwery and immortall world of worlds ¶ After what sorte God the father vouchedsafe to helpe mankind and of the incarnation of the wurd whiche is Christe and of the geuing of thanks HItherto O almighty God the beholder and sercher
whatsoeuer offendeth y e eyes of thy pitie remoue it from me In thy sight is bothe my health and my disease The one I beseche thee to preserue the other to cure doo thou heale me O Lorde and I shal be healed doo thou make me safe I shal be saued Thou I meane which dost make hole them that be diseased dost preserue them that be cured which onely with a beck dost restore and repaire thinges that be decayed fallen into ruī For if thou wilt vouch safe to sow any good seed in the feld of my hart of necessitie thou must pluck vp first with the hād of thy pitie the thornes a fvices whiche be in it Put in my harte I beseche thee so great plentie of delectacion in the that I may desire no earthly or carnal thing nor yet thīk vpon them but that I may loue thee alone y t I may haue thee only in my hart and in my mouth Write with thy fingar in my brest the delectable re membraunce of thy sweet name soo that it may be blotted oute with no forgetfullnes Write thy wil in y e tables of mine hart and also thy iustifications that I may alwayes in euery place haue thee O Lorde before min eyes in my sight Enflame my mind with that fire which thou diddest send into the earth and willedst it to be kindled that I might offre vnto the daily with teares a sacrifice of a troubled spirit and a repentaunt hart O swete Christ O good Iesu euē according vnto my desire and euen as I hartely require thee with my whole minde geue me thy holy and chast loue whiche may replenish and kepe me also fully posses me Geue me an euident signe and token of thy loue a flowing well of teares whiche will cōtinually run that those teares may somwhat testifie thy loue in me y t they may shew forth that thei may declare how much my soule loueth thee whiles for the great delectacion it hath in y e swetnes of thy loue it may not refreine from teares I call to my remembraunce fom times good lorde that vertuous womā Ann which came to y e tabernacle to pray y e thou woldest send her a sonne of whō the scrip ture maketh mencion y ther coūtenaunce after her teares and prayers was not again chaunged or altered But whē I think apon so great vertue cōstance stedfastnes I am vexed with sorow and cōfounded with shame because I a wretchedoo perceiue my self to be fallen ouer muche from thee For if a woman did weep after suche a sorte and continued so in weeping which did serche for nothing els but a sonne how ought my soule to mourne and to persist and abide in weping that seeketh loueth God and hathe a desire to cum vnto him how ought suche a soule to mourne weep whiche seeketh God day night which will loue nothing but Christ My teares now truly should be made vnto me meat day night Looke vppō me therfore o lord and take pitie on me because the dolours and sorowes of my hart are many in numbre Geue me thy heauenly consolation doo not despise nor cast away a sinfull soule for the whiche thou didst die Geue me inward teares I beseche thee from the botome of min hart which may wash away the spottes of my sinnes Replenish my soule alwayes w t heauenli delectacion and heauely mirth y t I may obteine some litle porcion or part in thy kingdome although not emongst the perfect men whose stepes I cannot folow yet at the least wise emongst the inferiour sorie The marueilous deuotiō of an other woman cumeth now vnto my minde whiche with a vertuous loue did seek thee lying in the sepulchre whiche when thy discipies went away and departed from thee did remain with thee her self whiche sat there sad and sorowfull weping long and very muche and when she did arise she serched with a diligent eye and with many teares the corners of the sepulchre whiche was left emptie if the might espie thee out in any place whom she with a feruent desire sought Yea and more ouer she went again and again to the sepulchre but that was not ynough vnto her nether did it satisfie her desire For y e grace of a good wurk is to perseuer and continue in the same And because she did loue more then other and that in louing she wept and in weping she serched in searching she continued therfore was it thy pleasure that she should first finde thee see thee and talke with thee before all other And not only this but also she was a tidinges berer of thy glorious resurreccion vnto thy disciples when thou didst commaund her and bid her goo and tell my brethern that they goo vnto Galile there they shall see me c. Seyng therfore that a woman did weep after suche a sorte and continued in weeping whiche did seeke him that was aliue among the dead whiche touched thee w t the hand of her faith how ought a soule to mourne and to cōtinue in mourning which beleueth in the and with his mouth dooth acknowlege thee to be his redemer that sittest now in heauen reignest euery where How muche therfore ought such a soule to mourn wepe which loueth thee with all his hart and with his whole desire doth couet to see thee Oh onely refuge the only hope of wretches vnto whom no man nedeth at any time to pray with out hope of mercy graunt vnto me this grace for thy sake and for thy holy names sake that as oft as I think vpon thee as oft as I speake of thee write of the rede of thee cōfer of thee as oft as euer I remembre thee stand before thee offre vp prayses prayers and sacrifice vnto thee so oft I may wepe aboundauntly with teares in thy sight so y t my teares may be to me in stead of bread day and night Thou tru ly king of Glory and master of all vertu hast taught vs with thy wurd and with thin exsample to mourne and wepe wher as thou saist Blessed be they y tmourne for they shalbe conforted Thou didst weep for thy frende that was dead and didst let teares fall downe plenteously for the citie whiche shulde perish I beseche thee O good Iesu by those most precious teares and by all thy mercies and pieties wherwith thou didst vouch safe meruelously to helpe succour vs that were lost geue me the grace to weep and to be earnestli repentaunt for my sinnes whiche grace my soule desireth and coueteth very muche and except it cum of thy gift I can not haue it but by the holy ghost whiche dooth mollify the hard harts of sinners and prouoketh them to weping Geue me the grace of teares like as thou gauest to our forfathers whose exāples we ought to follow that I may bewayle my self in all my life like as thei did bewaile them selues day and night
Geue me the dew of thy grace from aboue and also a dew of teares benethe that my teares may be vnto me in stead of bread day and night and that I may be made in thy sight O Lorde my God by the fier of thy prouocation a fat and acceptable sacrifice Make me to be mor tified killed vpō thaltar of min hart that I may be receiued of thee as a fat and a swete smel ling sacrifice Geue vnto me O good Lorde a plentefull flowing and cleare well of teares in the whiche I may wash continu ally this foule and spotted sacrifice For although I haue offred vp my selfe wholy vnto thee by the help of thy grace Yet neuertheles in many thinges I offend thee dailly because of my great fragilitie and weaknesse Eeue me therfore the grace of teares O blessed God and most especially thorow the great swetnes of thy loue the remembraunce of thy mercies prepare this table for thy seruaunt in thy sight and geue me power that as oft as I list I may be satisfied of it Graunt vnto me for thy goodnes and pitie that this thy cup replenished and filled full may satisfie my thirst that my spirit may couet thee that my mind may burne in thy loue forgetting all vanitie and misery Heare my God heare thou that art the sturrer vp and quickner of my dull eares heare what I desire aske and geue me grace to ask that which thou hearest O pitifull Lorde which art wōt to be easyly entreated be not hard to be entreated of me because of my sinnes but for thy goodnes receiue the prayers of thy seruaunt and graunt me theffect of my peticion desire ¶ In this prayer mans minde is very muche and plenteously stirred moued if it be said in quietnes O Lord Iesu o gentle and louīg Iesu o good Iesu which didst vouchsafe to dye for oure sinnes didst rise again for our iustificacion I beseche thee by thy glorious resurrectiō to raise me vp oute of the sepulchre of vices and all my sinnes geue me dayly parte in thy first resurreccion to thintēt I may receiue some part in the latter resurreccion O most mighty king which didst ascend into heauē with the triumphe of thy glory and sittest on the right hand of thy father draw me vpward towards thee that I may run after thee in the swete sauour of thine anoyntments Let me run not faint when thou drawest me and leadest me running draw the mouth of the soule that thirsteth after thee vnto the high fluddes and streames of thine eternall a bundaunce sacietie yea draw me holly vnto thy self which art the liuing well to thintent I may according to my capacitie drinck of that wherupon I doo liue O my God my life thou didst say w t thy holy blessed mouth If any man thirst let him cum vnto me and drincke O well of life graūt vnto my thirstie soule alway to drink of thee that according to thy holy and true pro mise waters of life mai flow out of my belly O well of life replenish and fill my minde full of the riuer of thy pleasure Make my hart to be drunken as it were in thy loue that after the maner of the that be drunken with wine whiche forget all thinges saue y e cup so I may forget al vain and earthly things and continually haue nothing els in my remembraūce but the only according as it is written I remembred God and was delited Geue me the holy Ghost whom those waters did signifie whiche y u didst promise to geue to thē that thirsted after thee Graunt I beseche thee that I may assay to goo w t my hole desire and all my study toward y t place vnto the whiche we beleue thon didst ascend the forty day after thy resurreccion that in this presēt misery I may be onely in body but in thought and desire alwayes with thee y tmy hart may be there where as thou art whiche art my treasure wurthy to be coueted and much to be loued wherwith no treasure is wurthy to be compared In this greate flud of this life where as wee are tossed with stormes on euery side there is no stedfast standing or place high inough aboue the waters no not for the foote of a doue to rest vpon in this I say there is no safe or quiet peace nowhere any sure rest euery wher battail and strife euery where enemies and fightings without dores feare at home within dores And for asmuch as the one part of vs is heauenly and the other earthly our bodi whiche is corrupted doth loden and is burdenous vn to the soule Therfore my mind whiche is my felow and frend being weri with wādering forth of the way is sick and lieth all to torne andrent of those things whiche it hathe passed by It hongreth and thirsteth greatly after vanities I haue nothing to set afore it because I am poor and a begger Thou O Lorde my God art riche in all good thinges and the most plenteous geuer of the dainties of heauenly sacietie geue meat vnto the wery not suche as it lusteth after but suche as is conuenient for it gather together the disper sed renew and refresh the corne Loo he standeth at the dore and knocketh I beseche thee by the bowels of thy mercy wherwith thou being the day spring from an high hast visited vs open the hande of thy pitie to a wretche that knocketh vouchsafe mercifully to bid him entre in to the and that he may rest with thee be refreshed of thee whiche art the liuing and heanenly breade wherwith when he is once fed and that his strength is cummed to him again he may ascend vnto more high thinges And being lifted vp out of this vale of misery teares with the wings of his godly desire he may flye vnto the heauenly kingdome Let my spirit O Lord I beseche thee take winges as an Egle fly without fainting let it flye and come to beautifulnes of thy house and to the place where thy glory dwelleth wher as vpon y e meat tables of thy supernal citizens it may be fed of thy secrets in the place of thy pasture by the most plentifull riuers sides Let my hart rest in thee my God my hart I say whiche is as thoughe it were a great sea swellīg with waues Thou which didst rebuke the winds and the sea and there was made streight way a great calme cum and walke vpon the fluddes of min hart y t all things whiche belonge vnto me may be made calme clere that I may embrace thee whiche art mine onli God and that I may behold thee whiche art the swete light of mine eyes without any blind darknes of troublesom cogitacions thoughtes Let my minde flie O Lorde vndre the shadow of thy wings from heat that it being couered with the tamperatnes of thy pleasaunt colenes may sing