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THROUGH thy submitting all to blows Thy face, thy robes * to spoil, thy fame to scorn,All ways, which rage or justice knows,

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And through thy gallant humbleness,
Which thou in death didst show,

Dying before thy soul they could express,
Deliver us from death, by dying so

To this world, ere this world do bid us go.

XXI.

WHEN senses, which thy soldiers are,
We arm against thee, and they fight for sin,-
When want, sent but to tame, doth war,
And work Despair a breach to enter in, -

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XXII.

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in which speaks, diminishes the Word,

When magistrates do misapply

To us, as we judge, lay or ghostly sword,—
When plague, which is thine angel, reigns,
Or wars, thy champions, sway,-

When Heresy, thy second deluge, gains, —
In the hour of death, the eve of last judgment day,
Deliver us from the sinister way.

XXIII.

HEAR us, O hear us, Lord: to thee A sinner is more music, when he prays, Than spheres, or angels' praises be

In panegyric Allelujas,

Hear us; for till thou hear us, Lord,
We know not what to say:

Thine ear to our sighs, tears, thoughts, gives

voice and word.

O thou, who Satan heard'st in Job's sick day,
Hear thyself now, for thou in us dost pray.

XXIV.

THAT we may change to evenness This intermitting aguish piety,—

That snatching cramps of wickedness,

And interrupted evenness with fits,—
And through thy free confession,

Though thereby they were then

Made blind, so that thou might'st from them have gone,

Good Lord, deliver us, and teach us when
We may not, and we may, blind unjust men.

XX.

THROUGH thy submitting all to blows Thy face, thy robes * to spoil, thy fame to scorn,All ways, which rage or justice knows,

And by which thou could'st show that thou wast born,

And through thy gallant humbleness,
Which thou in death didst show,

Dying before thy soul they could express,
Deliver us from death, by dying so

To this world, ere this world do bid us go.

XXI.

WHEN senses, which thy soldiers are,
We arm against thee, and they fight for sin,-
When want, sent but to tame, doth war,
And work Despair a breach to enter in,-
When plenty, God's image and seal,
Makes us idolatrous,

And love it, not him whom it should reveal, —

*Var. clothes.

When we are moved to seem religious,
Only to vent wit, Lord, deliver us.

XXII.

IN Churches when the infirmity Of him which speaks, diminishes the Word, When magistrates do misapply

To us, as we judge, lay or ghostly sword,When plague, which is thine angel, reig Or wars, thy champions, sway,

When Heresy, thy second deluge, gains,In the hour of death, the eve of last judgment Deliver us from the sinister way.

XXIII.

HEAR US, O hear us, Lord: to thee
A sinner is more music, when he prays,
Than spheres, or angels' praises be
In panegyric Allelujas,

Hear us; for till thou hear us, Lord,

We know not what to say:

Thine ear to our sighs, tears, thoughts, gi voice and word.

O thou, who Satan heard'st in Job's sick day, Hear thyself now, for thou in us dost pray.

XXIV.

THAT We may change to evenness

This intermitting aguish piety,

That snatching cramps of wickedness,