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I	A
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THE FATHER	B
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FATHER of Heaven and Him by whom	C
It and us for it and all else for us	D
Thou madest and govern'st ever come	E
And re create me now grown ruinous	D
My heart is by dejection clay	F
And by self murder red	G
From this red earth O Father purge away	F
All vicious tinctures that new fashioned	H
I may rise up from death before I'm dead	G
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II	A
THE SON	I
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O Son of God who seeing two things	J
Sin and Death crept in which were never made	K
By bearing one tried'st with what stings	J
The other could Thine heritage invade	K
O be Thou nail'd unto my heart	L
And crucified again	M
Part not from it though it from Thee would part	L
But let it be by applying so Thy pain	N
Drown'd in Thy blood and in Thy passion slain	N
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III	A
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THE HOLY GHOST	O
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O Holy Ghost whose temple I	A
Am but of mud walls and condens d dust	P
And being sacrilegiously	F
Half wasted with youth's fires of pride and lust	P
Must with new storms be weather beat	Q
Double in my heart Thy flame	R
Which let devout sad tears intend and let	S
Though this glass lanthorn flesh do suffer maim	R
Fire sacrifice priest altar be the same	R
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IV	T
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THE TRINITY	U
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O blessed glorious Trinity	U
Bones to philosophy but milk to faith	V
Which as wise serpents diversely	F
Most slipperiness yet most entanglings hath	W
As you distinguish'd undistinct	U
By power love knowledge be	U
Give me a such self different instinct	U
Of these let all me elemented be	U
Of power to love to know you unnumbered three	U
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V	U
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THE VIRGIN MARY	U
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For that fair blessed mother maid	U
Whose flesh redeem'd us that she cherubin	N
Which unlock'd paradise and made	U
One claim for innocence and disseiz d sin	N
Whose womb was a strange heaven for there	X
God clothed Himself and grew	Y
Our zealous thanks we pour As her deeds were	B
Our helps so are her prayers nor can she sue	Y
In vain who hath such titles unto you	Y
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VI	T
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THE ANGELS	Z
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And since this life our nonage is	A2
And we in wardship to Thine angels be	U
Native in heaven's fair palaces	B2
Where we shall be but denizen'd by Thee	U
As th' earth conceiving by the sun	N
Yields fair diversity	U
Yet never knows what course that light doth run	N
So let me study that mine actions be	U
Worthy their sight though blind in how they see	U
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VII	T
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THE PATRIARCHS	C2
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And let Thy patriarchs' desire	B
Those great grandfathers of Thy Church which saw	D2
More in the cloud than we in fire	B
Whom nature clear'd more than us grace and law	D2
And now in heaven still pray that we	U
May use our new helps right	U
Be satisfied and fructify in me	U
Let not my mind be blinder by more light	U
Nor faith by reason added lose her sight	U
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VIII	T
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THE PROPHETS	E2
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Thy eagle sighted prophets too	Y
Which were Thy Church's organs and did sound	U
That harmony which made of two	Y
One law and did unite but not confound	U
Those heavenly poets which did see	U
Thy will and it express	F2
In rhythmic feet in common pray for me	U
That I by them excuse not my excess	F2
In seeking secrets or poeticness	F2
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IX	F2
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THE APOSTLES	F2
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And thy illustrious zodiac	G2
Of twelve apostles which engirt this All	F
From whom whosoever do not take	H2
Their light to dark deep pits throw down and fall	F
As through their prayers Thou'st let me know	N
That their books are divine	N
May they pray still and be heard that I go	N
Th' old broad way in applying O decline	N
Me when my comment would make Thy word mine	N
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X	F2
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THE MARTYRS	F2
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And since Thou so desirously	F
Didst long to die that long before Thou couldst	U
And long since Thou no more couldst die	U
Thou in thy scatter'd mystic body wouldst	U
In Abel die and ever since	F2
In Thine let their blood come	E
To beg for us a discreet patience	F2
Of death or of worse life for O to some	E
Not to be martyrs is a martyrdom	E
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XI	F2
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THE CONFESSORS	F2
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Therefore with Thee triumpheth there	X
A virgin squadron of white confessors	F2
Whose bloods betroth'd not married were	B
Tender'd not taken by those ravishers	F2
They know and pray that we may know	N
In every Christian	N
Hourly tempestuous persecutions grow	N
Temptations martyr us alive a man	N
Is to himself a Diocletian	N
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XII	F2
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THE VIRGINS	F2
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The cold white snowy nunnery	F2
Which as Thy Mother their high abbess sent	U
Their bodies back again to Thee	F2
As Thou hadst lent them clean and innocent	U
Though they have not obtain'd of Thee	F2
That or Thy Church or I	U
Should keep as they our first integrity	F2
Divorce Thou sin in us or bid it die	U
And call chaste widowhead virginity	F2
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XIII	F2
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THE DOCTORS	F2
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The sacred academy above	T
Of Doctors whose pains have unclasp'd and taught	U
Both books of life to us for love	T
To know Thy scriptures tells us we are wrote	U
In Thy other book pray for us there	X
That what they have misdone	N
Or missaid we to that may not adhere	I2
Their zeal may be our sin Lord let us run	N
Mean ways and call them stars but not the sun	N
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XIV	T
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And whilst this universal quire	J2
That Church in triumph this in warfare here	K2
Warm'd with one all partaking fire	B
Of love that none be lost which cost Thee dear	I2
Prays ceaselessly and Thou hearken too	U
Since to be gracious	F2
Our task is treble to pray bear and do	U
Hear this prayer Lord O Lord deliver us	F2
From trusting in those prayers though pour'd out	U
thus	F2
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XV	T
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From being anxious or secure	L2
Dead clods of sadness or light squibs of mirth	M2
From thinking that great courts immure	L2
All or no happiness or that this earth	M2
Is only for our prison framed	U
Or that Thou'rt covetous	F2
To them whom Thou lovest or that they are maim'd	U
From reaching this world's sweet who seek Thee	F2
thus	F2
With all their might good Lord deliver us	F2
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XVI	T
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From needing danger to be good	U
From owing Thee yesterday's tears to day	U
From trusting so much to Thy blood	U
That in that hope we wound our soul away	U
From bribing Thee with alms to excuse	F2
Some sin more burdenous	F2
From light affecting in religion news	F2
From thinking us all soul neglecting thus	F2
Our mutual duties Lord deliver us	F2
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XVII	T
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From tempting Satan to tempt us	F2
By our connivance or slack company	F2
From measuring ill by vicious	F2
Neglecting to choke sin's spawn vanity	F2
From indiscreet humility	F2
Which might be scandalous	F2
And cast reproach on Christianity	F2
From being spies or to spies pervious	F2
From thirst or scorn of fame deliver us	F2
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XVIII	T
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Deliver us through Thy descent	U
Into the Virgin whose womb was a place	F2
Of middle kind and Thou being sent	U
To ungracious us stay'dst at her full of grace	F2
And through Thy poor birth where first Thou	N2
Glorified'st poverty	F2
And yet soon after riches didst allow	N2
By accepting kings' gifts in th' Epiphany	F2
Deliver us and make us to both ways free	F2
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XIX	F2
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And through that bitter agony	F2
Which is still th' agony of pious wits	F2
Disputing what distorted Thee	F2
And interrupted evenness with fits	F2
And through Thy free confession	N
Though thereby they were then	N
Made blind so that Thou mightst from them have gone	N
Good Lord deliver us and teach us when	N
We may not and we may blind unjust men	N
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XX	F2
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Through Thy submitting all to blows	F2
Thy face Thy robes to spoil Thy fame to scorn	N
All ways which rage or justice knows	F2
And by which Thou couldst show that Thou wast born	N
And through Thy gallant humbleness	F2
Which Thou in death didst show	N
Dying before Thy soul they could express	F2
Deliver us from death by dying so	N
To this world ere this world do bid us go	N
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XXI	N
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When senses which Thy soldiers are	L2
We arm against Thee and they fight for sin	N
When want sent but to tame doth war	L2
And work despair a breach to enter in	N
When plenty God's image and seal	F
Makes us idolatrous	N