MARIE
MAGDALENS
FVNERAL
TEARES
.
AMongst
other
mourneful
accidents
of
the
passion
of
Christ
,
that
loue
presenteth
it selfe
vnto
my
memory
,
with
which
the
blessed
Marie
Magdalene
louing
our
Lord
more
than
her selfe
,
followed
him
in
his
iourney
to
his
death
,
attending
vpon
him
when
his
disciples
fled
and
being
more
willing
to
dye
with
him
,
than
they
to
liue
without
him
.
But
not
finding
the
fauour
to
accompany
him
in
death
,
and
loathing
after
him
to
remaine
in
life
,
the
fire
of
her
true
affection
enflamed
her
heart
,
and
her
enflamed
heart
resolued
into
vncessant
teares
,
so
that
burning
and
bathing
betweene
loue
and
griefe
,
she
led
a
life
euer
dying
and
felt
a
death
neuer
ending
.
And
when
he
by
whom
she
liued
was
dead
,
and
she
for
whom
he
dyed
enforcedly
left
aliue
,
she
praised
the
dead
more
than
the
liuing
:
and
hauing
lost
that
light
of
her
life
,
she
desired
to
dwell
in
darkenesse
,
&
in
the
shadow
of
death
,
choosing
Christs
Tombe
for
her
best
home
,
and
his
coarse
for
her
chiefe
comfort
.
For
Mary
(
as
the
Euangelist
saith
)
Stood
without
at
the
Tombe
weeping
.
But
alas
how
vnfortunate
is
this
woman
,
to
whom
neither
life
will
affoord
a
desired
farewell
,
nor
death
allow
any
wished
welcome
?
She
hath
abandoned
the
liuing
,
and
chosen
the
company
of
the
dead
;
and
now
it
seemeth
that
euen
the
dead
haue
forsaken
her
,
sith
the
coarse
she
seeketh
is
taken
away
from
her
.
And
this
was
the
cause
that
loue
induced
her
to
stand
,
and
sorrow
enforced
her
to
weepe
.
Her
eye
was
watchfull
to
seeke
whom
her
heart
most
longed
to
enioy
,
and
her
foot
in
a
readinesse
to
runne
,
if
her
eye
should
chance
to
espy
him
.
And
therefore
she
standeth
to
be
still
stirring
,
prest
to
watch
euery
way
,
and
prepared
to
go
whither
any
hope
should
call
her
.
But
she
wept
because
she
had
such
occasion
of
standing
:
and
that
which
moued
her
to
watch
,
was
the
motiue
of
her
teares
.
For
as
she
watched
to
finde
whom
she
had
lost
,
so
she
wept
for
hauing
lost
whom
she
loued
,
her
poore
eyes
being
troubled
at
once
with
two
contrarie
offices
,
both
to
be
cleare
in
sight
the
better
to
seeke
him
,
and
yet
cloudy
with
teares
for
missing
the
sight
of
him
.
Yet
was
not
this
the
entrance
but
the
increase
of
her
griefe
,
not
the
beginning
,
but
the
renewing
of
her
moane
.
For
first
she
mourned
for
the
departing
of
his
soule
out
of
his
body
,
and
now
she
lamented
the
taking
of
his
body
out
of
the
graue
,
being
punished
with
two
wreckes
of
her
onely
welfare
,
both
full
of
miserie
,
but
the
last
without
all
comfort
.
The
first
originall
of
her
sorrow
grew
,
because
she
could
not
enioy
him
aliue
:
yet
this
sorrow
had
some
solace
,
for
that
she
hoped
to
haue
enioyed
him
dead
.
But
when
she
considered
that
his
life
was
already
lost
,
and
now
not
so
much
as
his
body
could
be
found
she
was
wholly
daunted
with
dismay
,
sith
this
vnhappinesse
admitted
no
helpe
.
She
doubted
lest
the
loue
of
her
maister
(
the
onely
portion
that
her
fortune
had
left
her
)
would
soone
languish
in
her
cold
breast
,
if
it
neither
had
his
words
to
kindle
it
,
nor
his
presence
to
cherish
it
,
nor
so
much
as
his
dead
ashes
to
rake
it
vp
.
She
had
prepared
her
spices
,
and
prouided
her
oyntments
,
to
pay
him
the
last
tribute
of
externall
duties
.
And
though
Ioseph
and
Nicodemus
had
already
bestowed
an
hundreth
pounds
of
Mirrhe
and
Aloes
,
which
was
in
quantity
sufficient
,
in
quality
of
the
best
,
and
as
well
applyed
as
art
and
deuotion
could
deuise
:
yet
such
was
her
loue
,
that
she
would
haue
thought
any
quantitie
too
little
,
except
hers
had
bene
added
;
the
best
in
qualitie
too
meane
,
except
hers
were
with
it
;
and
no
diligence
in
applying
it
enough
,
except
her
seruice
were
in
it
.
Not
that
she
was
sharpe
in
censuring
that
which
others
had
done
,
but
because
loue
made
her
so
desirous
to
do
all
her selfe
,
that
though
all
had
bene
done
that
she
could
deuise
,
and
as
well
as
she
could
wish
,
yet
vnlesse
she
were
an
actor
it
would
not
suffice
,
sith
loue
is
as
eager
to
be
vttered
in
effects
,
as
it
is
zealous
in
true
affection
.
She
came
therefore
now
meaning
to
enbalme
his
corps
,
as
she
had
before
annointed
his
feet
,
and
to
preserue
the
reliques
of
his
body
,
as
the
onely
remnant
of
all
her
blisse
.
And
as
in
the
spring
of
her
felicitie
she
had
washed
his
feet
with
her
teares
,
bewayling
vnto
him
the
death
of
her
owne
soule
:
so
now
she
came
in
the
depth
of
her
miserie
,
to
shed
them
afresh
for
the
death
of
his
body
.
But
when
she
saw
the
graue
open
,
and
the
bodie
taken
out
,
the
labour
of
enbalming
was
preuented
,
but
the
cause
of
her
weeping
increased
,
and
he
that
was
wanting
to
her
obsequies
,
was
not
wanting
to
her
teares
;
and
though
she
found
not
whom
to
annoynt
,
yet
found
she
whom
to
lament
.
And
not
without
cause
did
Marie
complaine
,
finding
her
first
anguish
doubled
with
a
second
griefe
,
and
being
surcharged
with
two
most
violent
sorrowes
in
one
afflicted
heart
.
For
hauing
setled
her
whole
affection
vpon
Christ
,
and
summed
all
her
desires
and
wishes
into
the
loue
of
his
goodnesse
,
as
nothing
could
equall
his
worthes
:
so
was
there
not
in
the
whole
world
,
either
a
greater
benefit
for
her
to
enioy
than
himselfe
,
or
any
greater
dammage
possible
than
his
losse
.
The
murdering
in
his
owne
death
,
the
life
of
all
liues
,
left
a
generall
death
in
all
liuing
creatures
,
and
his
decease
not
onely
disrobed
our
nature
of
her
most
royall
ornaments
,
but
impouerished
the
world
of
all
highest
perfections
.
What
maruell
therefore
though
her
vehement
loue
to
so
louely
a
Lord
,
being
after
the
wrecke
of
his
life
,
now
also
depriued
of
his
dead
body
,
feele
as
bitter
pangs
for
his
losse
,
as
before
it
tasted
ioyes
in
his
presence
,
and
open
as
large
an
issue
to
teares
of
sorrow
,
as
euer
heretofore
to
teares
of
contentment
?
And
though
teares
were
rather
oyle
than
water
to
her
flame
,
apter
to
nourish
than
diminish
her
griefe
:
yet
now
being
plonged
in
the
depth
of
paine
,
she
yeelded
her selfe
captiue
to
all
discomfort
,
carrying
an
ouerthrowne
mind
in
a
more
enfeebled
body
,
and
still
busie
in
deuising
,
but
euer
doubtfull
in
defining
what
she
might
best
do
.
For
what
could
a
silly
woman
do
but
weepe
,
that
floating
in
a
sea
of
cares
,
found
neither
eare
to
heare
her
,
nor
tongue
to
direct
her
,
nor
hand
to
helpe
her
,
nor
heart
to
pittie
her
in
her
desolate
case
?
True
it
is
,
that
Peter
and
Iohn
came
with
her
to
the
Tombe
,
and
to
make
triall
of
her
report
were
both
within
it
:
but
as
they
were
speedy
in
comming
,
and
diligent
in
searching
,
so
were
they
as
quicke
to
depart
,
and
fearefull
of
farther
seeking
.
And
alas
,
what
gained
she
by
their
comming
,
but
two
witnesses
of
her
losse
,
two
dismayers
of
her
hope
,
and
two
patternes
of
a
new
despaire
?
Loue
moued
them
to
come
,
but
their
loue
was
soone
conquered
,
with
such
feare
,
that
it
suffered
them
not
to
stay
.
But
Mary
,
hoping
in
despaire
,
and
perseuering
in
hope
,
stood
without
feare
,
because
she
now
thought
nothing
left
that
ought
to
be
feared
.
For
she
hath
lost
her
maister
,
to
whom
she
was
so
entirely
deuoted
,
that
he
was
the
totall
of
her
loues
,
the
height
of
her
hopes
,
and
the
vttermost
of
her
feares
,
and
therefore
besides
him
,
she
could
neither
loue
other
creature
,
hope
for
other
comfort
,
nor
feare
other
losse
.
The
worst
she
could
feare
,
was
the
death
of
her
body
,
and
that
shee
rather
desired
than
feared
,
sith
shee
had
alreadie
lost
the
life
of
her
soule
,
without
which
anie
other
life
would
be
a
death
,
and
with
which
any
other
death
would
haue
bene
a
delight
.
But
now
she
thought
it
better
to
dye
than
to
liue
,
because
she
might
happily
dying
find
,
whom
not
dying
she
looked
not
to
enioy
,
and
not
enioying
she
had
little
will
to
liue
.
For
now
she
loued
nothing
in
her
life
,
but
her
loue
to
Christ
:
and
if
any
thing
did
make
her
willing
to
liue
,
it
was
onely
the
vnwillingnesse
that
his
Image
should
dye
with
her
,
whose
likenesse
loue
had
limited
in
her
heart
,
and
treasured
vp
in
her
sweetest
memories
.
And
had
she
not
feared
to
breake
the
table
,
and
to
breake
open
the
closet
,
to
which
she
had
entrusted
this
last
relique
of
her
lost
happinesse
,
the
violence
of
griefe
,
would
haue
melted
her
heart
into
inward
bleeding
teares
,
and
blotted
her
remembrance
with
a
fatall
obliuion
.
And
yet
neuerthelesse
,
she
is
now
in
so
imperfect
a
sort
aliue
,
that
it
is
proued
true
in
her
,
that
Loue
is
as
strong
as
death
.
For
what
could
death
haue
done
more
in
Mary
than
loue
did
?
Her
wits
were
astonied
,
and
all
her
senses
so
amazed
,
that
in
the
end
finding
she
did
not
know
,
seeing
she
could
not
discerne
,
hearing
she
perceiued
not
,
and
more
than
all
this
,
she
was
not
there
where
she
was
,
for
she
was
wholly
where
her
maister
was
;
more
where
she
loued
than
where
she
liued
,
and
lesse
in
her selfe
than
in
his
body
,
which
notwithstanding
,
where
it
was
she
could
not
imagine
.
For
she
sought
,
&
as
yet
she
found
not
,
and
therefore
stood
at
the
Tombe
weeping
for
it
,
being
now
altogether
giuen
to
mourning
,
and
driuen
to
misery
.
But
ô
Mary
,
by
whose
counsaile
,
vpon
what
hope
,
or
with
what
heart
,
couldest
thou
stand
alone
,
when
the
Disciples
were
departed
?
Thou
wert
there
once
before
they
came
,
thou
turnedst
againe
at
their
comming
,
and
yet
thou
stayest
when
they
are
gone
.
Alas
that
thy
Lord
is
not
in
the
Tombe
,
thine
owne
eyes
haue
often
seene
,
the
Disciples
hands
haue
felt
,
the
empty
Syndon
doth
auouch
,
and
cannot
all
this
winne
thee
to
beleeue
it
?
No
no
,
thou
wouldest
rather
condemne
thine
owne
eyes
of
errour
,
and
both
their
eyes
and
hands
of
deceit
,
yea
,
rather
suspect
all
testimonies
for
vntrue
,
than
not
looke
whom
thou
hast
lost
,
euen
there
,
where
by
no
diligence
he
could
be
found
.
When
thou
thinkest
of
other
places
,
and
canst
not
imagine
any
so
likely
as
this
,
thou
seekest
againe
in
this
,
and
though
neuer
so
often
sought
,
it
must
be
an
haunt
for
hope
.
For
when
things
dearely
affected
are
lost
,
loues
natures
is
,
neuer
to
be
weary
of
searching
euen
the
oftenest
searched
corners
,
being
more
willing
to
thinke
that
all
the
senses
are
mistaken
,
than
to
yeeld
that
hope
should
quaile
.
Yet
now
sith
it
is
so
euident
,
that
he
is
taken
away
,
what
should
moue
thee
to
remaine
here
where
the
perill
is
apparent
,
and
no
profit
likely
?
Can
the
wit
of
one
(
and
she
a
woman
)
wholly
possessed
with
passion
,
haue
more
light
to
discerne
danger
,
than
two
wits
of
two
men
,
and
both
principall
fauorits
of
the
parent
of
all
wisedome
?
Or
if
(
notwithstanding
the
danger
)
there
had
bene
iust
cause
to
encounter
it
,
were
not
two
together
,
being
both
to
Christ
sworne
champions
,
each
to
other
affected
friends
,
and
to
all
his
enemies
professed
foes
,
more
likely
to
haue
preuailed
,
than
one
feminine
heart
,
timorous
by
kind
,
and
already
amazed
with
this
dreadfull
accident
?
But
alas
,
why
do
I
vrge
her
with
reason
,
whose
reason
is
altered
into
loue
,
&
that
iudgeth
it
folly
to
follow
such
reason
,
as
should
any
way
impaire
her
loue
?
Her
thoughts
were
arrested
by
euery
thread
of
Christs
Sindon
,
and
she
was
captiue
to
so
many
prisons
,
as
the
tombe
had
memories
of
her
lost
master
:
Loue
being
her
Iaylor
in
them
all
,
and
nothing
able
to
ransome
her
,
but
the
recouery
of
her
Lord
.
What
maruaile
then
though
the
Apostles
examples
drew
her
not
away
,
whom
so
violent
a
loue
enforced
to
remaine
,
which
prescribing
lawes
both
to
wit
and
will
,
is
guided
by
no
other
law
but
it selfe
?
She
could
not
thinke
of
any
feare
,
nor
stand
in
feare
of
any
force
.
Loue
armed
her
against
all
hazards
,
and
being
already
wounded
wtih
the
greatest
griefe
,
she
had
no
leisure
to
remember
any
lesser
euill
.
Yea
she
had
forgotten
all
things
,
and
her selfe
among
all
things
,
onely
mindfull
of
him
whom
she
loued
aboue
all
things
.
And
yet
her
loue
,
by
reason
of
her
losse
,
drowned
both
her
mind
and
memory
so
deepe
in
sorrow
,
and
so
busied
her
wits
in
the
conceit
of
his
absence
,
that
all
remembrance
of
his
former
promises
,
was
diuerted
with
the
throng
of
present
discomforts
,
and
she
seemed
to
haue
forgotten
also
him
besides
whom
she
remembred
nothing
.
For
doubtlesse
had
she
remembred
him
as
shee
should
,
shee
would
not
haue
now
thought
the
tombe
a
fit
place
to
seeke
him
,
neither
would
she
mourne
for
him
as
dead
,
and
remoued
by
others
force
,
but
ioy
in
him
as
reuiued
,
and
risen
by
his
own
power
.
For
he
had
often
foretold
both
the
manner
of
his
death
,
and
the
day
of
his
Resurrection
.
But
alas
,
let
her
heauinesse
excuse
her
,
and
the
vnwontednesse
of
the
miracle
pleade
her
pardon
,
sith
dread
&
amazement
hath
dulled
her
senses
,
distempered
her
thoughts
,
discouraged
her
hopes
,
awaked
her
passions
,
and
left
her
no
other
liberty
but
onely
to
weepe
.
She
wept
therefore
,
being
onely
able
to
weepe
.
And
as
she
was
weeping
,
she
stouped
downe
and
looked
into
the
Monument
,
and
she
saw
two
Angels
in
white
,
sitting
one
at
the
head
,
and
another
at
the
feet
,
where
the
body
of
Iesus
had
bene
layd
.
They
said
vnto
her
,
Woman
why
weepest
thou
?
Iohn
20.
O
Mary
,
thy
good
hap
exceedeth
thy
hope
,
and
where
thy
last
sorrow
was
bred
,
thy
first
succour
springeth
.
Thou
diddest
seeke
but
one
,
and
thou
hast
found
two
.
A
dead
body
was
thy
errand
,
and
thou
hast
light
vpon
two
aliue
.
Thy
weeping
was
for
a
man
,
and
thy
teares
haue
obtained
Angels
.
Suppresse
now
thy
sadnesse
,
and
refresh
thy
heart
with
this
good
fortune
.
These
Angels
inuite
thee
to
a
parley
,
they
seeme
to
take
pitty
of
thy
case
,
and
it
may
be
,
they
haue
some
happy
tidings
to
tell
thee
.
Thou
hast
hitherto
sought
in
vaine
,
as
one
either
vnseene
,
or
vnknowne
,
or
at
the
least
vnregarded
,
sith
the
party
thou
seekest
,
neither
tendereth
thy
teares
,
nor
answereth
thy
cryes
,
nor
relenteth
with
thy
lamentings
.
Either
he
doth
not
heare
,
or
he
will
not
helpe
:
he
hath
paraduenture
left
to
loue
thee
,
and
is
loth
to
yeeld
thee
reliefe
,
and
therefore
take
such
comfort
as
thou
findest
,
sith
thou
art
not
so
lucky
,
as
to
finde
that
which
thou
couldest
wish
Remember
what
they
are
,
where
they
sit
,
from
whence
they
come
,
and
to
whom
they
speake
.
They
are
Angels
of
peace
,
neither
sent
without
cause
,
nor
seene
but
of
fauour
.
They
sit
in
the
tombe
,
to
shew
that
they
are
no
strangers
to
thy
losse
.
They
come
from
heauen
,
from
whence
all
happy
news
descendeth
.
They
speake
to
thy selfe
,
as
though
they
had
some
speciall
embassage
to
deliuer
vnto
thee
.
Aske
them
therefore
of
thy
master
,
for
they
are
likeliest
to
returne
thee
a
desired
answer
.
Thou
knewest
him
too
well
,
to
thinke
that
hell
hath
deuoured
him
:
thou
hast
long
sought
,
and
hast
not
found
him
on
earth
,
and
what
place
so
fit
for
him
as
to
be
in
heauen
?
Aske
therefore
of
those
Angels
that
came
newly
from
thence
,
and
it
may
be
,
their
report
will
highly
please
thee
.
Or
if
thou
art
resolued
to
continue
thy
seeking
,
who
can
better
helpe
thee
,
than
they
that
are
as
swift
as
thy
thought
,
as
faithfull
as
thine
owne
heart
,
and
as
louing
to
thy
Lord
as
thou
thy
felfe
?
Take
therefore
thy
good
hap
,
lest
it
be
taken
away
from
thee
,
and
content
thee
with
Angels
,
sith
thy
master
hath
giuen
thee
ouer
.
But
alas
,
what
meaneth
this
change
,
and
how
happeneth
this
strange
alteration
?
The
time
hath
bene
that
fewer
teares
would
haue
wrought
greater
effect
,
shorter
seeking
haue
sooner
found
,
and
lesse
paine
haue
procured
more
pittie
.
The
time
hath
bene
that
thy
annointing
his
feet
,
was
accepted
and
praysed
,
thy
washing
them
with
teares
highly
commended
,
&
thy
wiping
them
with
thy
haire
,
most
curteously
construed
.
How
then
doth
it
now
fall
out
,
that
hauing
brought
thy
sweet
oyles
to
annoint
his
whole
body
,
hauing
shed
as
many
teares
,
as
would
haue
washed
more
than
his
feet
,
and
hauing
not
onely
thy
haire
,
but
thy
heart
ready
to
serue
him
,
he
is
not
moued
with
all
these
duties
,
so
much
as
once
to
afford
thee
his
fight
?
Is
it
not
he
that
reclaimed
thee
from
thy
wandring
courses
,
that
dispossessed
thee
of
thy
damned
Inhabitants
;
and
from
the
wilds
of
sinne
,
recouered
thee
into
the
fold
and
family
of
his
flock
?
Was
not
thy
house
his
home
,
his
loue
thy
life
,
thy selfe
his
disciple
?
Did
not
he
defend
thee
against
the
Pharisie
,
pleade
for
thee
against
Iudas
,
and
excuse
thee
to
thy
sister
?
In
summe
,
was
not
he
thy
Patron
and
Protector
in
all
thy
necessities
?
O
good
Iesu
,
what
hath
thus
estranged
thee
from
her
?
Thou
hast
heretofore
so
pitied
her
teares
,
that
seeing
them
,
thou
couldest
not
refraine
thine
.
In
one
of
her
greatest
agonies
,
for
loue
of
her
that
so
much
loued
thee
,
thou
didst
recall
her
dead
brother
to
life
,
turning
her
complaint
into
vnexpected
contentment
.
And
we
know
that
thou
doest
not
vse
to
alter
course
without
cause
,
nor
to
chastise
without
desert
.
Thou
art
the
first
that
inuitest
,
and
the
last
that
forsakest
▪
neuer
leauing
but
first
left
;
and
euer
offering
,
till
thou
art
refused
.
How
then
hath
she
forfeited
thy
fauour
?
or
with
what
trespasse
hath
she
earned
thy
ill
will
?
That
she
neuer
left
to
loue
thee
,
her
heart
will
depose
,
her
hand
will
subscribe
,
her
tongue
will
protest
,
her
teares
will
testifie
,
and
her
seeking
doth
assure
.
And
alas
,
is
her
particular
case
so
farre
from
example
,
that
thou
shouldest
rather
alter
thy
nature
,
than
she
better
her
Fortune
,
and
be
to
her
as
thou
art
to
no
other
?
For
our
parts
since
thy
last
shew
of
liking
towards
her
,
we
haue
found
no
other
fault
in
her
,
but
that
she
was
the
earliest
vp
to
seeke
thee
,
readiest
to
annoint
thee
,
and
when
she
saw
that
thou
wert
remoued
,
she
forthwith
did
weepe
for
thee
,
and
presently
went
for
helpe
to
finde
thee
.
And
whereas
those
two
that
she
brought
,
being
lesse
carefull
of
thee
than
fearefull
of
themselues
,
when
they
had
seene
what
she
had
said
,
sodainely
shrunke
away
,
behold
she
still
stayeth
,
she
still
seeketh
,
she
still
weepeth
.
If
this
be
a
fault
,
we
cannot
deny
but
this
she
doth
,
and
to
this
she
perswadeth
;
yea
,
this
she
neither
meaneth
to
amend
,
nor
requesteth
thee
to
forgiue
:
if
therfore
thou
reckonest
this
as
punishable
,
punished
she
must
be
,
sith
no
excuse
hath
effect
where
the
fact
pleadeth
guiltie
.
But
if
this
import
not
any
offence
but
a
true
affection
,
and
be
rather
a
good
desire
than
an
euill
desert
,
why
art
thou
so
hard
a
Iudge
to
so
soft
a
creature
,
requiting
her
loue
with
thy
losse
,
and
suspending
her
hopes
in
this
vnhappinesse
?
Are
not
those
thy
words
;
I
loue
those
that
loue
me
,
and
who
watcheth
early
for
me
shall
find
me
?
why
then
doth
not
this
woman
find
thee
,
that
was
vp
so
early
to
watch
for
thee
?
Why
doest
thou
not
with
like
repay
her
,
that
bestoweth
vpon
thee
her
whole
loue
,
sith
thy
word
is
her
warrant
,
and
thy
promise
her
due
debt
?
Art
thou
lesse
moued
with
these
teares
that
she
sheddeth
for
thee
her
onely
Master
,
than
thou
wert
with
those
that
she
shed
before
thee
for
her
deceassed
brother
?
Or
doth
her
loue
to
thy
seruant
more
please
thee
than
her
loue
to
thy selfe
?
Our
loue
to
others
must
not
be
to
them
,
but
to
thee
in
them
.
For
he
loueth
thee
so
much
the
lesse
,
that
loue●h
any
thing
with
thee
.
If
therefore
she
then
deserued
well
for
louing
thee
in
another
,
she
deserued
better
now
,
for
louing
thee
in
thy selfe
:
and
if
indeed
thou
louest
those
that
loue
thee
,
make
thy
word
good
to
her
that
is
so
farre
in
loue
with
thee
.
Of
thy selfe
thou
hast
said
,
that
thou
art
The
way
,
the
truth
,
and
the
life
.
If
then
thou
art
a
way
easie
to
find
and
neuer
erring
,
how
doth
she
misse
thee
?
If
a
life
giuing
life
and
neuer
ending
,
why
is
she
ready
to
dye
for
thee
?
If
a
true
promising
truth
and
neuer
failing
,
how
is
she
bereaued
of
thee
?
For
if
what
thy
tongue
did
speake
,
thy
truth
will
auerre
,
she
will
neuer
aske
more
to
make
her
most
happy
.
Remember
that
thou
saidst
to
her
sister
,
that
Mary
had
chosen
the
best
part
which
should
not
be
taken
from
her
.
That
she
chose
the
best
par●
is
out
of
question
,
sith
she
made
choise
of
nothing
but
only
of
thee
But
how
can
it
be
verified
,
that
this
part
shal
not
be
taken
from
her
,
sith
thou
that
art
this
part
art
already
taken
away
?
If
she
could
haue
kept
thee
,
she
would
not
haue
lost
thee
:
and
had
it
bene
in
her
power
,
as
it
was
in
her
will
,
she
would
neuer
haue
parted
from
thee
:
and
might
she
now
be
restored
to
thy
presence
,
she
would
trie
all
fortunes
rather
than
for
go
thee
.
Sith
therefore
she
seeketh
nothing
but
what
she
chose
,
and
the
losse
of
her
choise
is
the
only
cause
of
her
combat
,
either
vouchsafe
thou
to
keep
this
best
part
that
she
chose
in
her
,
or
I
see
not
how
it
can
be
true
,
that
it
shall
not
be
taken
from
her
.
But
thy
meaning
haply
was
,
that
though
it
be
taken
from
her
eyes
,
yet
it
should
neuer
be
taken
from
her
heart
;
&
it
may
be
thy
inward
presence
supplyeth
thine
outward
absence
:
yet
I
can
hardly
thinke
,
but
that
if
Mary
had
thee
within
her
,
she
could
feele
it
,
and
if
she
felt
it
,
she
would
neuer
seeke
thee
.
Thou
art
too
hot
a
fire
to
be
in
her
bosome
and
not
to
burne
her
,
and
thy
light
is
too
great
,
to
leaue
her
mind
in
this
darknesse
if
it
shined
in
her
.
In
true
louers
euery
part
is
an
eye
,
and
euery
thought
a
looke
,
and
therefore
so
sweet
an
obiect
among
so
many
eyes
,
and
in
so
great
a
light
,
could
neuer
lye
so
hidden
but
loue
would
espy
it
.
No
,
no
,
if
Mary
had
thee
,
her
innocent
heart
(
neuer
taught
to
dissemble
)
could
not
make
complaint
the
out-side
of
a
concealed
comfort
,
neither
would
she
turne
her
thoughts
to
pasture
in
a
dead
mans
Tombe
,
if
at
home
she
might
bid
them
to
so
heauenly
a
banquet
.
Her
loue
would
not
haue
a
thought
to
spare
,
nor
a
minute
to
spend
in
any
other
action
,
than
in
enioying
of
thee
,
whom
she
knew
too
well
,
to
abridge
the
least
part
of
her
from
so
high
an
happinesse
.
For
her
thirst
of
thy
presence
was
so
exceeding
,
and
the
sea
of
thy
ioyes
so
well
able
to
afford
her
a
full
draught
,
that
though
euery
parcell
in
her
should
take
in
a
whole
tide
of
thy
delights
,
she
would
thinke
them
too
few
to
quiet
her
desires
.
Yea
doubtlesse
,
if
she
had
thee
within
her
,
she
would
not
enuie
the
fortune
of
the
richest
Empresse
,
yea
she
would
more
reioyce
to
be
thy
Tombe
in
earth
,
than
a
throne
in
heauen
,
and
disdaine
to
be
a
Saint
if
she
were
worthy
to
be
but
thy
shrine
.
But
paraduenture
it
is
now
with
her
mind
,
as
it
was
with
the
Apostles
eyes
;
and
as
they
seeing
thee
walke
vpon
the
Sea
took
thee
for
a
Ghost
,
so
she
seeing
thee
in
her
hart
,
deemeth
thee
but
a
fancy
,
being
yet
better
acquainted
with
thy
bodily
shape
than
with
thy
spirituall
power
.
But
ô
Mary
,
it
seemeth
too
strange
,
that
he
whom
thou
seekest
,
and
for
whom
thou
weepest
,
should
thus
giue
thee
ouer
to
these
painefull
fits
,
if
in
thee
he
did
not
see
a
cause
for
which
he
will
not
be
seene
of
thee
.
Still
thy
plaint
,
and
stint
thy
weeping
,
for
I
doubt
there
is
some
trespasse
in
thy
teares
,
&
some
sinne
in
thy
sorrow
.
Doest
thou
not
remember
his
words
to
thee
and
to
other
women
,
when
he
said
:
Daughters
of
Ierusalem
weepe
not
for
me
,
but
weepe
for
your selues
and
for
your
children
?
What
meanest
thou
then
to
continue
this
course
?
Doth
he
forbid
thy
teares
,
and
wilt
thou
not
forbeare
them
?
Is
it
no
fault
to
infringe
his
will
,
or
is
not
that
his
will
that
his
words
do
import
?
The
fault
must
be
mended
,
ere
the
penance
be
released
,
and
therefore
either
ceasse
to
weepe
,
or
neuer
hope
to
finde
.
But
I
know
this
Logicke
little
pleaseth
thee
,
and
I
might
as
soone
win
thee
to
forbeare
liuing
as
to
leaue
weeping
.
Thou
wilt
say
,
that
though
he
forbad
thee
to
weepe
for
him
,
yet
he
left
thee
free
,
to
weepe
for
thy selfe
,
and
sith
thy
loue
hath
made
thee
one
with
him
,
thou
weepest
but
for
thy selfe
when
thou
weepest
for
him
.
But
I
answer
thee
againe
,
that
because
he
is
one
with
thee
,
and
thy
weeping
for
him
hath
bene
forbidden
thee
,
thou
canst
not
weepe
for
thy selfe
,
but
his
words
wil
condemne
thee
.
For
if
thou
&
he
are
one
,
for
which
soeuer
thou
weepest
it
is
all
one
,
&
therefore
sith
for
him
thou
maist
not
weepe
,
forbeare
all
weeping
left
it
should
offend
.
Yea
but
(
saist
thou
)
to
barre
me
from
weeping
,
is
to
abridge
me
of
liberty
,
and
restraint
of
liberty
is
a
penaltie
;
and
euery
penaltie
supposeth
some
offence
:
but
an
offence
it
is
not
to
weepe
for
my selfe
,
for
he
would
neuer
commande
it
,
if
it
were
not
lawfull
to
do
it
.
The
fault
therefore
must
be
;
in
being
one
with
him
,
that
maketh
the
weeping
for
my
selfe
,
a
weeping
also
for
him
.
And
if
this
be
a
fault
,
I
will
neuer
amend
it
;
and
let
them
that
thinke
it
so
,
do
penance
for
it
:
for
my
part
,
sith
I
haue
lost
my
mirth
,
I
will
make
much
of
my
sorrow
,
and
sith
I
haue
no
ioy
but
in
teares
,
I
may
lawfully
shed
them
.
Neither
thinke
I
his
former
word
,
a
warrant
against
his
latter
deed
.
And
what
need
had
he
to
weepe
vpon
the
Crosse
,
but
for
our
example
,
which
if
it
were
good
for
him
to
giue
,
it
cannot
be
euill
for
me
to
follow
?
No
,
no
,
it
is
not
my
weeping
that
causeth
my
losse
,
sith
a
world
of
eyes
,
and
a
sea
of
teares
,
could
not
worthily
bewaile
the
misse
of
such
a
maister
.
Yet
,
since
neither
thy
seeking
findeth
,
nor
thy
weeping
preuaileth
,
satisfie
thy selfe
with
the
sight
of
Angels
.
Demaund
the
cause
of
their
comming
,
and
the
reason
of
thy
Lords
remoue
,
and
sith
they
first
offer
thee
occasion
of
parley
,
be
not
thou
too
dainty
of
thy
discourse
.
It
may
be
they
can
calme
thy
stormes
,
and
quiet
thy
vnrest
,
and
therefore
conceale
not
from
them
thy
sore
,
lest
thou
lose
the
benefit
of
their
emplaister
.
But
nothing
can
moue
Mary
to
admit
comfort
or
entertaine
any
company
:
for
to
one
alone
,
and
for
euer
she
hath
vowed
her selfe
,
and
except
it
be
to
him
,
she
will
neither
lend
her
eare
long
to
others
,
nor
borrow
others
helpe
,
lest
by
the
seeking
to
allay
her
smart
,
she
should
lessen
her
loue
.
But
drawing
into
her
mind
all
pensiue
conceits
,
she
museth
and
pineth
in
a
consuming
languor
,
taking
comfort
in
nothing
but
in
being
comfortlesse
.
Alas
,
(
saith
she
)
small
is
the
light
that
a
starre
can
yeeld
when
the
Sunne
is
downe
,
and
a
sorry
exchange
to
go
gather
the
crums
after
the
losse
of
an
heauenly
repast
.
My
eyes
are
not
vsed
to
see
by
the
glimse
of
a
sparke
:
and
in
seeking
the
Sunne
it
is
either
needlesse
or
bootlesse
to
borrow
the
light
of
a
candle
,
sith
either
it
must
bewray
it selfe
with
the
selfe
light
,
or
no
other
light
can
euer
discouer
it
.
If
they
come
to
disburden
me
of
my
heauinesse
,
their
comming
will
be
burdensome
vnto
me
,
and
they
will
load
me
more
while
they
labour
my
reliefe
.
They
cannot
perswade
me
,
that
my
maister
is
not
lost
,
for
my
owne
eyes
will
disproue
them
.
They
can
lesse
tell
me
where
he
may
be
found
,
for
they
would
not
be
so
simple
to
be
so
long
from
him
:
or
if
they
can
forbeare
him
,
surely
they
do
not
know
him
,
whom
none
can
truly
know
,
and
liue
long
without
him
.
All
their
demurres
would
be
tedious
,
and
discourses
irksome
.
Impaire
my
loue
they
might
,
but
appay
it
they
could
not
,
to
which
he
that
first
accepted
the
debt
is
the
onely
payment
.
They
either
want
power
,
will
,
or
leaue
to
tell
me
my
desire
,
or
at
the
first
word
they
would
haue
done
it
,
sith
Angels
are
not
vsed
to
idle
speeches
,
and
to
me
all
talke
is
idle
that
doth
not
tell
me
of
my
maister
.
They
know
not
where
he
is
,
and
therfore
they
are
come
to
the
place
where
he
last
was
,
making
the
Tombe
their
heauen
,
and
the
remembrance
of
his
presence
the
food
of
their
felicitie
.
Whatsoeuer
they
could
tell
me
,
if
they
told
me
not
of
him
,
and
whatsoeuer
they
could
tell
me
of
him
,
if
they
told
me
not
where
he
were
,
both
their
telling
and
my
hearing
were
but
a
wasting
of
time
.
I
neither
came
to
see
them
,
nor
desire
to
heare
them
.
I
came
not
to
see
Angels
,
but
him
that
made
both
me
and
Angels
,
and
to
whom
I
owe
more
than
both
to
men
and
Angels
.
And
to
thee
I
appeale
,
ô
most
louing
Lord
,
whether
my
afflicted
heart
doth
not
truly
defray
the
tribute
of
an
vndeuided
loue
.
To
thee
I
appeale
,
whether
I
haue
ioyned
any
partner
with
thee
,
in
the
small
possession
of
my
poore
selfe
.
And
I
would
to
God
I
were
as
,
priuie
where
thy
body
is
,
as
thou
art
,
who
is
onely
Lord
and
owner
of
my
soule
.
But
alas
sweet
Iesu
,
where
thou
wert
thou
art
not
,
&
where
thou
art
I
know
not
:
wretched
is
the
case
that
I
am
in
,
and
yet
how
to
better
it
I
cannot
imagine
.
Alas
ô
my
onely
desire
,
why
hast
thou
left
me
wauering
in
these
vncertainties
,
and
in
how
wild
a
maze
wander
my
doubtful
&
perplexed
thoughts
?
If
I
stay
here
where
he
is
not
,
I
shall
neuer
finde
him
.
If
I
go
further
to
seeke
,
I
know
not
whither
.
To
leaue
the
Tombe
is
a
death
,
and
to
stand
helplesse
by
it
an
vncurable
disease
,
so
that
all
my
comfort
is
now
concluded
in
this
,
that
I
am
free
to
chuse
whether
I
will
stay
without
helpe
,
or
go
without
hope
,
that
is
in
effect
,
with
what
torment
I
will
end
my
life
.
And
yet
euen
this
were
too
happy
a
choise
for
so
vnhappy
a
creature
.
If
I
might
be
chuser
of
mine
owne
death
,
ô
how
quickly
should
that
choise
be
made
,
and
how
willingly
would
I
runne
to
that
execution
?
I
would
be
nailed
to
the
same
crosse
,
with
the
same
nailes
,
&
in
the
same
place
:
my
heart
should
be
wounded
with
his
speare
,
my
head
with
his
thornes
,
my
body
with
his
whippes
:
Finally
,
I
would
taste
all
his
torments
,
and
tread
all
his
embrued
and
bloudie
steps
.
But
ô
ambitious
thoughts
,
why
gaze
you
vpon
so
high
a
felicitie
?
why
thinke
you
of
so
glorious
a
death
,
that
are
priuie
to
so
infamous
a
life
?
Death
alas
I
deserue
,
yea
not
one
but
infinite
deaths
.
But
so
sweete
a
death
,
seasoned
with
so
many
comforts
,
the
very
instruments
whereof
were
able
to
raise
the
deadest
corps
,
and
depure
the
most
defiled
soule
,
were
too
small
a
scourge
for
my
great
offences
.
And
therefore
I
am
left
to
feele
so
many
deaths
as
I
liue
houres
,
and
to
passe
as
many
pangs
as
I
haue
thoughts
of
my
losse
,
which
are
as
many
as
there
are
minutes
,
and
as
violent
as
if
they
were
all
in
euery
one
.
But
sith
I
can
neither
die
as
he
died
,
nor
liue
where
he
lyeth
dead
,
I
I
will
liue
out
my
liuing
death
by
his
graue
,
and
dye
on
my
dying
life
by
his
sweete
Tombe
.
Better
is
it
after
losse
of
his
body
to
looke
to
his
Sepulcher
,
than
after
the
losse
of
the
one
,
to
leaue
the
other
to
be
destroyed
.
No
,
no
,
though
I
haue
bene
robbed
of
the
Saint
,
I
will
at
the
least
haue
care
of
the
shrine
,
which
though
it
be
spoiled
of
the
most
soueraigne
hoast
,
yet
shall
it
be
the
Altar
where
I
will
daily
sacrifice
my
heart
,
and
offer
vp
my
teares
.
Here
will
I
euer
leade
,
yea
here
do
I
meane
to
end
my
wretched
life
,
that
I
may
at
the
least
be
buried
by
the
Tombe
of
my
Lord
,
and
take
my
iron
sleepe
neare
this
couch
of
stone
which
his
presence
hath
made
the
place
of
sweetest
repose
.
It
may
be
also
that
this
empty
Syndon
lyeth
here
to
no
vse
,
and
this
Tombe
being
open
without
any
in
it
,
may
giue
occasion
to
some
mercifull
heart
,
that
shall
first
light
vpon
my
vnburied
body
,
to
wrap
me
in
his
shroud
,
and
to
interre
me
in
this
Tombe
.
O
too
fortunate
lot
,
for
so
vnfortunate
a
woman
to
craue
:
no
:
no
:
I
do
not
craue
it
.
For
alas
,
I
dare
not
,
yet
if
such
an
ouer-sight
should
be
committed
,
I
do
now
before-hand
,
forgiue
that
sinner
,
and
were
it
no
more
presumption
to
wish
it
aliue
,
than
to
suffer
it
dead
,
if
I
knew
the
party
that
should
first
passe
by
me
,
I
would
woo
him
with
my
teares
,
and
hire
him
with
my
prayers
,
to
blesse
me
with
this
felicity
.
And
though
I
dare
not
wish
any
to
do
it
,
yet
this
(
without
offence
)
I
may
say
to
all
,
that
I
loue
this
Syndon
aboue
all
clothes
in
the
world
,
and
this
Tombe
I
esteeme
more
than
any
Princes
monument
:
yea
,
and
I
thinke
that
coarse
highly
fauored
,
that
shall
succeed
my
Lord
in
it
:
and
for
my
part
,
as
I
meane
that
the
ground
where
I
stand
shall
be
my
death-bed
;
so
am
I
not
of
Iacobs
mind
,
to
haue
my
body
buried
farre
from
the
place
where
it
dyeth
,
but
euen
in
the
next
and
readiest
graue
,
and
that
as
soone
as
my
breath
faileth
,
sith
delayes
are
bootlesse
where
death
hath
won
possession
.
But
alas
,
I
dare
not
say
any
more
,
let
my
body
take
such
fortune
as
befalleth
it
:
my
soule
at
the
least
shall
dwell
in
this
sweet
Paradise
,
and
from
this
brittle
case
of
flesh
and
bloud
,
passe
presently
into
the
glorious
Tombe
of
God
and
man
.
It
is
now
enwrapped
in
a
masse
of
corruption
,
it
shall
then
enioy
a
place
of
high
perfection
:
where
it
is
now
it
is
more
by
force
than
by
choise
,
and
like
a
repining
prisoner
in
a
loathed
gaile
:
but
there
in
a
little
roome
it
should
find
perfect
rest
,
and
in
the
prison
of
death
,
the
liberty
of
a
ioyfull
life
.
O
sweet
Tombe
of
my
sweetest
Lord
,
while
I
liue
I
will
stay
by
thee
,
when
I
die
,
I
will
cleaue
vnto
thee
:
neither
aliue
nor
dead
,
will
I
euer
be
drawne
from
thee
.
Thou
art
the
Altar
of
mercie
,
the
temple
of
truth
,
the
sanctuary
of
safe●ie
,
the
graue
of
death
,
and
the
cradle
of
eternall
life
.
O
heauen
of
my
eclipsed
Sunne
,
receiue
vnto
thee
this
silly
starre
that
hath
now
also
lost
all
wished
light
.
O
Whale
that
hast
swallowed
my
onely
Ionas
,
swallow
also
me
,
more
worthy
to
be
thy
prey
,
sith
I
,
and
not
he
,
was
the
cause
of
this
bloudie
tempest
.
O
Cesterne
of
my
innocent
Ioseph
,
take
me
into
thy
drie
bottome
,
sith
I
,
and
not
he
gaue
iust
cause
of
offence
to
my
enraged
brethren
.
But
alas
,
in
what
cloud
hast
thou
hidden
the
light
of
our
way
?
Vpon
what
shore
hast
thou
cast
vp
the
Preacher
of
all
truth
?
or
to
what
Ismaelite
hast
thou
yeelded
the
purueiour
of
our
life
?
Oh
vnhappy
me
,
why
did
I
not
before
thinke
of
that
which
I
now
aske
?
Why
did
I
leaue
him
when
I
had
him
,
thus
to
lament
him
now
that
I
haue
lost
him
?
If
I
had
watched
with
perseuerance
,
either
none
would
haue
taken
him
,
or
they
should
haue
taken
me
with
him
.
But
through
too
much
precisenesse
in
keeping
the
Law
,
I
haue
lost
the
Law-maker
;
and
by
being
too
scrupulous
in
obseruing
his
ceremonies
,
I
am
proued
irreligious
in
losing
him selfe
,
sith
I
should
rather
haue
remained
with
the
truth
,
than
forsaken
it
to
solemnize
the
figure
.
The
Sabboth
could
not
haue
bene
prophaned
in
standing
by
his
coarse
,
by
which
the
prophaned
things
are
sanctified
,
and
whose
touch
doth
not
defile
the
cleane
,
but
cleanseth
the
most
defiled
.
But
when
it
was
time
to
stay
,
I
departed
:
when
it
was
too
late
to
helpe
,
I
returned
:
and
now
I
repent
my
folly
,
when
it
cannot
be
amended
.
But
let
my
heart
dissolue
into
sighes
,
mine
eyes
melt
in
teares
,
and
my
desolate
soule
languish
in
dislikes
:
yea
,
let
all
that
I
am
and
haue
,
endure
the
deserued
punishment
,
that
if
he
were
incensed
with
my
fault
,
he
may
be
appeased
with
my
penance
,
and
returne
vpon
the
amendment
that
fled
from
the
offence
.
Thus
when
her
timorous
conscience
had
indited
her
of
so
great
an
omission
,
and
her
tongue
enforced
the
euidence
with
these
bitter
accusations
,
Loue
,
that
was
now
the
onely
vmpire
in
all
her
causes
,
condemned
her
eyes
to
a
fresh
showre
of
teares
,
her
breast
to
a
new
storme
of
sighes
,
and
her
soule
,
to
be
perpetuall
prisoner
to
restlesse
sorrowes
.
But
ô
Mary
,
thou
deceiuest
thy selfe
in
thy
owne
desires
,
and
it
well
appeareth
,
that
excesse
of
griefe
,
hath
bred
in
thee
a
defect
of
due
prouidence
.
And
wouldest
thou
indeed
haue
thy
wishes
come
to
passe
,
and
thy
words
fulfilled
?
Tell
me
then
,
I
pray
thee
,
if
thy
heart
were
dissolued
,
where
wouldest
thou
harbour
thy
Lord
?
what
wouldest
thou
offer
him
?
how
wouldest
thou
loue
him
?
Thine
eyes
haue
lost
him
,
thy
hands
cannot
feele
him
,
thy
feet
cannot
follow
him
:
and
if
it
be
at
all
in
thee
,
it
is
thy
heart
that
hath
him
,
and
wouldest
thou
now
haue
that
dissolued
,
from
thence
also
to
exile
him
?
And
if
thine
eyes
were
melted
,
thy
soule
in
langour
,
and
thy
senses
decayed
,
how
wouldest
thou
see
him
,
if
he
did
appeare
?
how
shouldest
thou
heare
him
,
if
he
did
speake
?
how
couldest
thou
know
him
,
though
he
were
there
present
?
Thou
thinkest
haply
that
he
loued
thee
so
well
,
that
if
thy
heart
were
spent
for
his
loue
,
he
would
either
lend
his
own
heart
vnto
thee
,
or
create
a
new
heart
in
thee
,
better
than
that
which
thy
sorrow
tooke
from
thee
.
It
may
be
thou
imaginest
that
if
thy
soule
would
giue
place
,
his
soule
wanting
now
a
bodie
,
would
enter
into
thine
,
with
supply
of
all
thy
senses
,
and
release
of
thy
sorrowes
.
O
Mary
,
thou
diddest
not
marke
what
thy
maister
was
wont
to
say
,
when
he
told
thee
,
that
the
third
day
he
should
rise
againe
.
For
if
thou
hadst
heard
him
,
or
at
the
least
vnderstood
him
,
thou
wouldest
not
thinke
,
but
that
he
now
vsed
both
his
heart
and
soule
in
the
life
of
his
owne
body
.
And
therefore
repaire
to
the
Angels
,
and
enquire
more
of
them
,
lest
the
Lord
be
displeased
,
that
comming
from
him
,
thou
wilt
not
entertaine
them
.
But
Mary
,
whose
deuotions
were
all
fixed
vpon
a
nobler
Saint
,
and
that
had
so
straightly
bound
her
thoughts
to
his
only
affection
,
that
she
rather
desired
to
vnknow
whom
she
knew
already
,
than
to
burthen
her
mind
with
the
knowledge
of
new
acquaintance
,
could
not
make
her
will
,
long
since
possessed
with
the
highest
loue
,
stoope
to
the
acceptance
of
meaner
friendships
.
And
for
this
,
though
she
did
not
scornefully
reiect
,
yet
did
she
with
humilitie
refuse
the
Angels
company
,
thinking
it
no
discourtesie
to
take
her selfe
from
them
,
for
to
giue
her selfe
more
wholly
to
her
Lord
,
to
whom
both
she
and
they
were
wholly
deuoted
,
&
ought
most
loue
and
greatest
duty
.
Sorrow
also
being
now
the
onely
interpreter
of
all
that
sense
,
deliuered
to
her
vnderstanding
,
made
her
conster
their
demand
in
a
more
doubtfull
than
true
meaning
.
If
(
saith
she
)
they
came
to
ease
my
affliction
,
they
could
not
be
ignorant
of
the
cause
:
and
if
they
were
not
ignorant
of
it
,
they
would
neuer
aske
it
,
why
then
did
they
say
,
Woman
why
weepest
thou
?
If
their
question
did
import
a
prohibition
,
the
necessitie
of
the
occasion
doth
countermand
their
counsaile
,
and
fitter
it
were
they
should
weepe
with
me
,
than
I
in
not
weeping
obey
them
.
If
the
Sunne
were
ashamed
to
shew
his
brightnesse
,
when
the
father
of
lights
was
darkned
with
such
disgrace
:
if
the
heauens
discolouring
their
beauties
,
suted
themselues
to
their
makers
fortune
:
if
the
whole
frame
of
nature
were
almost
dissolued
to
see
the
author
of
nature
so
vnhaturally
abused
:
why
may
not
Angels
,
that
best
knew
the
indignitie
of
the
case
,
make
vp
a
part
in
this
lamentable
consort
?
And
especially
now
,
that
by
the
losse
of
his
body
,
the
cause
of
weeping
is
increased
,
and
yet
the
number
of
mourners
lessened
:
sith
the
Apostles
are
fled
,
all
his
friends
afraid
,
and
poore
I
left
alone
to
supply
the
teares
of
all
creatures
?
O
who
will
giue
water
to
my
head
,
and
a
fountaine
of
teares
vnto
mine
eyes
,
that
I
may
weepe
day
and
night
,
and
neuer
ceasse
weeping
?
O
my
onely
Lord
,
thy
griefe
was
the
greatest
that
euer
was
in
man
,
and
my
griefe
as
great
as
euer
happened
to
woman
:
for
my
loue
hath
carued
me
no
small
portion
of
thine
,
thy
losse
hath
redoubled
the
torment
of
my
owne
,
and
all
creatures
seeme
to
haue
made
ouer
to
me
theirs
,
leauing
me
as
the
vicegerent
of
all
their
sorrow
.
Sorrow
with
me
at
the
least
ô
thou
Tombe
,
and
thaw
into
teares
you
hardest
stones
.
The
time
is
now
come
,
that
you
are
licensed
to
cry
,
and
bound
to
recompence
the
silence
of
your
Lords
Disciples
,
of
whom
he
himselfe
sayd
to
the
Pharises
,
that
if
they
held
their
peace
,
the
very
stones
should
cry
for
them
.
Now
therefore
sith
feare
hath
locked
vp
their
lips
,
and
sadnesse
made
them
mute
,
let
the
stones
cry
out
against
the
murd
erers
of
my
Lord
,
and
bewray
the
robbers
of
his
sacred
body
.
And
I
feare
that
were
it
well
knowne
who
hath
taken
him
away
,
there
is
no
stone
so
stony
,
but
should
haue
cause
to
lament
.
It
was
doubtlesse
the
spite
of
some
malicious
Pharisee
or
bloudy
Scribe
,
that
not
contented
with
those
torments
that
he
suffered
in
life
(
of
which
euery
one
to
any
other
would
haue
bene
a
tyrannicall
death
)
hath
now
stolen
away
his
dead
body
,
to
practise
vpon
it
some
sauage
cruelty
,
and
to
glut
their
pitilesse
eyes
and
brutish
hearts
with
the
vnnaturall
vsage
of
his
helplesse
corps
.
O
yee
rocks
and
stones
,
if
euer
you
must
cry
out
,
now
it
is
high
time
,
sith
the
light
,
the
life
,
and
the
Lord
of
the
world
is
thus
darkned
,
massacred
,
and
outragiously
misused
.
Doth
not
his
tongue
,
whose
truth
is
infallible
,
and
whose
word
omnipotent
,
commanding
both
winds
and
seas
,
and
neuer
disobeyed
of
the
most
sensible
creatures
,
promise
to
arme
the
world
,
and
make
the
whole
earth
to
fight
against
the
senslesse
persons
,
in
defence
of
the
iust
?
And
who
more
iust
than
the
Lord
of
iustice
?
who
more
senslesse
than
his
barbarous
murtherers
,
whose
insatiable
thirst
of
his
innocent
bloud
,
could
not
be
staunched
with
their
cruell
butchering
him
at
his
death
,
vnlesse
they
proceeded
further
in
this
hellish
impiety
to
his
dead
body
.
Why
then
do
not
all
creatures
addresse
themselues
to
reuenge
so
iust
a
quarrell
,
vpon
so
senslesse
wretches
,
left
of
all
reason
,
forsaken
of
humanitie
,
and
bereaued
of
all
feeling
both
of
God
and
man
?
O
Mary
,
why
doest
thou
thus
torment
thy self
with
these
tragicall
surmises
?
Doest
thou
thinke
that
the
Angels
would
sit
still
,
if
their
maister
were
not
well
?
Did
they
serue
him
after
his
fasting
,
and
would
they
despise
him
after
his
deceasse
?
Did
they
comfort
him
before
he
was
apprehended
,
and
would
not
defend
him
when
he
was
dead
?
If
in
the
garden
he
might
haue
had
twelue
.
Legions
of
them
,
is
his
power
so
quite
dead
with
his
body
,
that
he
could
not
now
command
them
?
Was
there
an
Angell
found
to
helpe
Daniel
to
his
dinner
,
to
saue
Toby
from
the
fish
,
yea
and
to
defend
Balaams
poore
beast
from
his
maisters
rage
:
and
is
the
Lord
of
Angels
of
so
little
reckoning
,
that
if
his
body
stood
in
need
,
neuer
an
Angell
would
defend
it
?
Thou
seest
two
here
present
to
honour
his
Tombe
,
and
how
much
more
carefull
would
they
be
to
do
homage
to
his
person
?
Beleeue
not
Mary
that
they
would
smile
,
if
thou
haddest
such
occasion
to
weepe
.
They
would
not
so
gloriously
shine
in
white
,
if
a
blacke
and
mourning
weede
did
better
become
them
,
or
were
a
fitter
liuery
for
thy
maister
to
giue
,
or
them
to
weare
.
Yeeld
not
more
to
thy
vncertaine
feare
and
deceiued
loue
,
than
to
their
assured
knowledge
,
and
neuer
erring
charitie
.
Can
a
materiall
eye
see
more
than
an
heauenly
spirit
,
or
the
glimmering
of
the
twi-light
giue
better
aime
than
the
beams
of
their
eternall
Sunne
?
Would
they
(
thinkest
thou
)
waite
vpon
the
winding
sheete
,
while
the
coarse
were
abused
,
or
be
here
for
thy
comfort
,
if
their
Lord
did
need
their
seruice
?
No
,
no
,
he
was
neither
any
theeues
booty
,
nor
Pharisees
pray
;
neither
are
the
Angels
so
carelesse
of
him
,
as
thy
suspition
presumeth
.
And
if
their
presence
and
demeanour
cannot
alter
thy
conceit
,
looke
vpon
the
clothes
and
they
will
teach
thee
thine
errour
,
and
cleare
thee
of
thy
doubt
.
Would
any
▪
thiefe
,
thinkest
thou
,
haue
bene
so
religious
,
as
to
haue
stolen
the
body
,
and
left
the
clothes
?
yea
,
would
he
haue
bene
so
venturous
,
as
to
haue
stayed
the
vnshrowding
of
the
coarse
,
the
well
ordering
of
the
sheets
,
and
folding
vp
the
napkins
?
Thou
knowest
that
the
Mirrhe
maketh
linnen
cleaue
as
fast
as
pitch
or
glue
:
and
was
a
thiefe
at
so
much
leisure
,
as
to
dissolue
the
Myrrhe
and
vncloath
the
dead
?
what
did
the
watch
while
the
scales
were
broken
,
the
Tombe
opened
,
the
body
vnfolded
,
all
other
things
ordered
as
now
thou
seest
?
And
if
all
this
cannot
yet
perswade
thee
,
beleeue
at
the
least
thy
owne
experience
.
When
thy
maister
was
stripped
at
the
crosse
,
thou
knowest
that
his
onely
garment
being
congealed
to
his
goarie
backe
,
came
not
off
without
many
parts
of
his
skin
,
&
doubtlesse
would
haue
torne
off
many
more
,
if
he
had
bene
annointed
with
Myrrhe
:
Looke
then
into
the
sheete
,
whether
there
remaine
any
parcell
of
skin
,
or
any
one
haire
of
his
head
:
and
sith
there
is
none
to
be
found
,
beleeue
some
better
issue
of
thy
maisters
absence
than
thy
feare
suggesteth
.
A
guiltie
conscience
doubteth
want
of
time
,
and
therefore
dispatcheth
hastily
.
It
is
in
hazard
to
be
discouered
,
and
therefore
practiseth
in
darknesse
and
secresie
.
It
euer
worketh
in
extreame
feare
,
and
therefore
hath
no
leisure
to
place
things
orderly
.
But
to
vnwrap
so
mangled
a
body
,
out
of
Mirrhed
cloathes
without
tearing
of
any
skinne
,
or
leauing
on
any
Mirrhe
,
is
a
thing
either
to
man
impossible
,
or
not
possible
to
be
done
with
such
speed
,
without
light
or
helpe
,
and
with
so
good
order
.
Assure
thy selfe
therefore
,
that
if
either
of
malice
,
or
by
fraud
the
coarse
had
bene
remoued
,
the
linnen
and
myrrhe
should
neuer
haue
bene
left
;
and
neither
could
the
Angels
looke
so
chearefully
,
nor
the
clothes
lye
so
orderly
,
but
to
import
some
happier
accident
than
thou
conceiuest
.
But
to
free
thee
more
from
feare
,
consider
these
words
of
the
Angels
,
Woman
why
weepest
thou
?
For
what
do
they
signifie
,
but
as
much
in
effect
as
if
they
had
said
:
Where
Angels
reioyce
,
it
agreeth
not
that
a
woman
shold
weepe
,
and
where
heauenly
eyes
are
witnesses
of
ioy
,
no
mortall
eye
should
controll
them
with
testimonies
of
sorrow
?
With
more
than
a
manly
courage
thou
diddest
before
my
comming
,
arme
thy
feet
to
runne
among
swords
,
thy
armes
to
remoue
huge
loades
,
thy
body
to
endure
all
Tyrants
rage
,
and
thy
soule
to
be
sundred
with
violent
tortures
:
and
art
thou
now
so
much
a
Woman
that
thou
canst
not
command
thine
eyes
to
forbeare
teares
?
If
thou
wert
a
true
Disciple
,
so
many
proofes
would
perswade
thee
,
but
now
thy
incredulous
humour
maketh
thee
vnworthy
of
that
stile
,
and
we
can
affoord
thee
no
better
title
,
than
a
Woman
,
and
therefore
ô
Woman
,
and
too
much
a
Woman
,
why
weepest
thou
?
If
there
were
here
any
coarse
,
we
might
thinke
that
sorrow
for
the
dead
enforced
thy
teares
:
but
now
that
thou
findest
it
a
place
of
the
liuing
,
why
doest
thou
here
stand
weeping
for
the
dead
?
Is
our
presence
so
discomfortable
that
thou
shouldest
weepe
to
behold
vs
?
or
is
it
the
course
of
thy
kindnesse
with
teares
to
entertaine
vs
?
If
they
be
teates
of
loue
to
testifie
thy
good
will
,
as
thy
loue
is
acknowledged
,
so
let
these
signes
be
suppressed
.
If
they
be
teares
of
anger
to
denounce
thy
displeasure
,
they
should
not
here
haue
bene
shed
where
all
anger
was
buried
but
none
deserued
.
If
they
be
teares
of
sorrow
and
duties
to
the
dead
,
they
are
bestowed
in
vaine
where
the
dead
is
reuiued
.
If
they
be
teares
of
ioy
stilled
from
the
flowers
of
thy
good
fortune
,
fewer
of
these
would
suffice
,
and
fitter
were
other
tokens
to
expresse
thy
contentment
.
And
therefore
O
Woman
,
why
doest
thou
weepe
?
would
our
eyes
be
so
drie
,
if
such
eye-streames
were
behouefull
?
Yea
,
would
not
the
heauens
raine
teares
if
thy
supposals
were
truths
?
Did
not
Angels
alwaies
in
their
visible
semblances
represent
their
Lords
inuisible
pleasures
,
shadowing
their
shapes
in
the
drift
of
his
intentions
?
When
God
was
incensed
they
brandished
swords
:
when
he
was
appeased
,
they
sheathed
them
in
scabbards
:
when
he
would
defend
,
they
resembled
souldiers
,
when
he
would
terrifie
they
tooke
terrible
formes
,
and
when
he
would
comfort
,
they
carried
mirth
in
their
eyes
,
sweetnesse
in
their
countenance
,
mildnesse
in
their
words
,
fauour
,
grace
and
comelinesse
in
their
whole
presence
.
Why
then
doest
thou
weepe
,
seeing
vs
to
reioyce
?
Doest
thou
imagine
vs
to
degenerate
from
our
nature
,
or
to
forget
any
dutie
,
whose
state
is
neither
subiect
to
change
,
nor
capable
of
the
least
offence
?
Art
thou
more
priuie
to
the
counsaile
of
our
eternall
God
,
than
we
that
are
daily
attendants
at
his
throne
of
glory
?
O
woman
,
deeme
not
amisse
against
so
apparent
euidence
,
and
at
our
request
exchange
thy
sorrow
for
our
ioy
.
But
ô
glorious
Angels
,
why
do
ye
moue
her
to
ioy
,
if
you
know
why
she
weepeth
?
Alas
,
she
weepeth
for
the
losse
of
him
without
whom
all
ioy
is
to
her
but
matter
of
new
griefe
.
While
he
liued
,
euery
place
where
she
found
him
,
was
to
her
a
Paradise
▪
euery
season
wherein
he
was
enioyed
,
a
perpetuall
spring
,
euery
exercise
wherein
he
was
serued
,
a
speciall
felicitie
:
the
ground
whereon
he
went
,
seemed
to
yeeld
her
sweeter
footing
:
the
ayre
wherein
he
breathed
,
became
to
her
spirit
of
life
,
being
once
sanctified
in
his
sacred
breast
.
In
summe
,
his
presence
brought
with
it
an
heauen
of
delights
,
and
his
departure
seemed
to
leaue
an
eclipse
in
all
things
.
And
yet
euen
the
places
that
he
had
once
honored
with
the
accesse
of
his
person
,
were
to
her
so
many
sweet
Pilgrimages
,
which
in
his
absence
she
vsed
as
chappels
and
altars
,
to
offer
vp
her
prayers
,
feeling
in
them
long
after
,
the
vertue
of
his
former
presence
.
And
therefore
to
feed
her
with
coniectures
of
his
well
being
,
is
but
to
strengthen
her
feare
of
his
euill
,
and
the
alledging
of
likelihoods
by
those
that
know
the
certaintie
,
importeth
the
cause
to
be
so
lamentable
,
that
they
are
vnwilling
it
should
be
knowne
.
Your
obscure
glancing
at
the
truth
,
is
no
sufficient
acquittance
of
her
griefe
,
neither
can
she
out
of
these
disioyned
ghests
spell
the
words
that
must
be
the
conclusion
of
her
complaint
.
Tell
her
then
directly
what
is
become
of
her
Lord
,
if
you
meane
to
deliuer
her
out
of
these
dumpes
,
sith
what
else
soeuer
you
say
of
him
,
doth
but
draw
more
humours
to
her
sore
,
and
rather
anger
it
than
any
way
asswage
it
.
Yet
hearken
ô
Mary
,
and
consider
their
speeches
.
Thinke
what
answer
thou
wilt
giue
them
,
sith
they
presse
thee
with
so
strong
perswasion
.
But
I
doubt
that
thy
wits
are
smothered
with
too
thicke
a
mist
,
to
admit
these
vnknowne
beames
of
their
pale
light
.
Thou
art
so
wholy
inherited
by
the
bloudy
tragedie
of
thy
slaughtered
Lord
,
and
his
death
and
dead
body
hath
gotten
so
absolute
a
conquest
ouer
all
thy
powers
,
that
neither
thy
sense
can
discerne
,
nor
thy
minde
conceiue
any
other
obiect
than
his
murdered
coarse
.
Thy
eyes
seeme
to
tell
thee
that
euery
thing
inuiteth
thee
to
weepe
,
carrying
such
outward
shew
,
as
though
all
that
thou
seest
were
attyred
in
sorrow
to
solemnize
with
generall
consent
the
funerall
of
the
maister
.
Thy
teares
perswade
thee
that
all
sounds
and
voyces
are
tuned
with
mournfull
notes
,
and
that
the
Eccho
of
thine
owne
wailings
,
is
the
cry
of
the
very
stones
and
trees
,
as
though
(
the
cause
of
thy
teares
being
so
vnusuall
)
God
to
the
rocks
and
woods
,
had
inspired
a
feeling
of
thine
and
their
common
losse
.
And
therefore
it
soundeth
to
thee
as
a
strange
question
,
to
aske
thee
why
thou
weepest
,
sith
all
that
thou
seest
and
hearest
,
seemeth
to
induce
thee
,
yea
,
to
enforce
thee
to
weepe
.
If
thou
seest
any
thing
that
beareth
colour
of
mirth
,
it
is
vnto
thee
like
the
rich
spoiles
of
a
vanquished
kingdome
,
in
the
eye
of
a
captiue
Prince
,
which
puts
him
in
mind
what
he
had
,
not
what
he
hath
,
and
are
but
vpbraidings
of
his
losse
,
and
whetstones
of
sharper
sorrow
.
Whatsoeuer
thou
hearest
that
moueth
delight
,
it
presenteth
the
misse
of
thy
maisters
speeches
,
which
as
they
were
the
onely
Harmony
that
thy
eares
affected
,
so
they
being
now
stopped
with
a
deathfull
silence
,
all
other
words
and
tunes
of
comfort
are
to
thee
but
an
Israelites
musicke
vpon
Babylons
bancks
,
memories
of
a
lost
felicitie
,
and
proofes
of
a
present
vnhappinesse
.
And
though
loue
increaseth
the
conceit
of
thy
losse
,
which
endeareth
the
meanest
things
,
and
doubleth
the
estimate
of
things
that
are
precious
:
yet
thy
faith
teaching
thee
the
infinite
dignitie
of
thy
Maister
,
and
thy
vnderstanding
being
no
dull
scholer
to
learne
so
well
liked
a
lesson
,
it
fell
out
to
be
the
bitterest
part
of
thy
miserie
,
that
thou
diddest
so
well
know
how
infinite
the
losse
was
that
made
thee
miserable
.
This
is
the
cause
that
those
very
Angels
,
in
whom
all
things
make
remonstrance
of
triumph
and
solace
,
are
vnto
thee
occasions
of
new
griefe
.
For
their
gracious
and
louely
countenances
,
remember
thee
,
that
thou
hast
lost
the
beauty
of
the
world
,
and
the
highest
marke
of
true
loues
ambition
.
Their
sweet
lookes
and
amiable
features
tell
thee
,
that
the
heauen
of
thy
eyes
which
was
the
reuerend
Maiesty
of
thy
Masters
face
,
once
shined
with
farre
more
pleasing
graces
,
but
is
now
disfigured
with
the
dreadfull
formes
of
death
.
In
summe
,
they
were
to
thee
,
like
the
glistering
sparkes
of
a
broken
Diamond
,
and
like
pictures
of
dead
and
decayed
beauties
,
signes
,
not
salues
of
thy
calamity
,
memorials
,
not
medicines
of
thy
misfortune
.
Thy
eyes
were
too
well
acquainted
with
the
truth
,
to
accept
a
supply
of
shadowes
:
and
as
comelinesse
,
comfort
and
glory
,
were
neuer
in
any
other
so
truely
at
home
and
so
perfectly
in
their
prime
,
as
in
the
person
and
speeches
of
thy
Lord
:
so
cannot
thy
thoughts
but
be
like
strangers
in
any
forraine
delight
.
For
in
them
all
thou
seest
no
more
but
some
scattered
crums
,
and
hungrie
morsels
of
thy
late
plentifull
banquets
,
and
findest
a
dim
reflexion
of
thy
former
light
,
which
like
a
flash
of
lightning
,
in
a
close
and
stormie
night
,
serueth
thee
but
to
see
thy
present
infelicitie
,
and
the
better
to
know
the
horrour
of
the
ensuing
darknesse
.
Thou
thinkest
therefore
thy selfe
blamelesse
,
both
in
weeping
for
thy
losse
,
and
in
refusing
other
comfort
:
Yet
in
common
courtesie
affoord
these
Angels
an
answer
,
sith
their
charitie
visiting
thee
,
deserueth
much
more
,
and
thou
(
if
not
too
vngratefull
)
canst
allow
them
no
lesse
.
Alas
(
saith
she
)
what
needeth
my
answer
,
where
the
miserie
it selfe
speaketh
,
and
the
losse
is
manifest
?
My
eyes
haue
answered
them
with
teares
,
my
breast
with
sighes
,
and
my
heart
with
throbs
,
what
need
I
also
punish
my
tongue
,
or
wound
my
soule
,
with
a
new
rehearsall
of
so
do
lefull
a
mischance
?
They
haue
taken
away
,
O
vnfortunate
word
,
they
haue
taken
away
my
Lord
.
O
afflicted
woman
;
why
thinkest
thou
this
word
so
vnfortunate
?
It
may
be
the
Angels
haue
taken
him
,
more
solemnely
to
entombe
him
:
and
sith
earth
hath
done
her
last
homage
,
haply
the
Quires
of
heauen
are
also
descended
to
defray
vnto
him
their
funerall
duties
.
It
may
be
that
the
Centurion
and
the
rest
,
that
did
acknowledge
him
on
the
crosse
to
be
the
Sonne
of
God
,
haue
bene
touched
with
remorse
,
and
goared
with
pricke
of
conscience
,
and
being
desirous
to
satisfie
for
their
haynous
offence
,
haue
now
taken
him
,
more
honorably
to
interre
him
,
and
by
their
seruice
to
his
body
sought
forgiuenesse
,
and
sued
the
pardon
of
their
guiltie
soules
.
Peraduenture
some
secret
disciples
,
haue
wrought
this
exploit
,
and
maugre
the
watch
taken
him
from
hence
,
with
due
honour
to
preserue
him
in
some
better
place
,
and
therefore
being
yet
vncertaine
who
hath
him
,
there
is
no
such
cause
to
lament
,
sith
the
greater
probabilities
,
march
on
the
better
side
.
Why
doest
thou
call
sorrow
before
it
commeth
,
which
without
calling
commeth
on
thee
too
fast
?
yea
,
why
doest
thou
create
sorrow
where
it
is
not
,
sith
thou
hast
true
sorrow
enough
,
though
imagined
sorrowes
helpe
not
?
It
is
folly
to
suppose
the
worst
where
the
best
may
be
hoped
for
:
and
euerie
mishap
bringeth
griefe
enough
with
it
,
though
we
with
our
feares
do
not
go
first
to
meet
it
.
Quiet
then
thy selfe
till
time
try
out
the
truth
,
and
it
may
be
thy
feare
will
proue
greater
than
thy
misfortune
.
But
I
know
thy
loue
is
little
helped
with
this
lesson
:
for
the
more
it
loueth
,
the
more
it
feareth
:
and
the
more
desirous
to
enioy
,
the
more
doubtfull
it
is
to
lose
.
It
neither
hath
measure
in
hopes
,
nor
meane
in
feares
:
hoping
the
best
vpon
the
least
surmises
,
and
fearing
the
worst
vpon
the
weakest
grounds
.
And
yet
both
fearing
and
hoping
at
one
time
,
neither
feare
with-holdeth
hope
from
the
highest
attempts
nor
hope
can
strengthen
feare
against
the
smallest
suspitions
:
but
maugre
all
feares
,
loues
hopes
will
mount
to
the
highest
pitch
,
and
maugre
all
hopes
,
loues
feares
will
stoupe
to
the
lowest
downe-come
.
To
bid
thee
therefore
hope
,
is
not
to
forbid
thee
to
feare
,
and
though
it
may
be
for
the
best
,
that
thy
Lord
is
taken
from
thee
,
yet
sith
it
may
also
be
for
the
worst
,
that
will
neuer
content
thee
.
Thou
thinkest
,
hope
doth
enough
to
keepe
thy
heart
from
breaking
,
&
feare
little
enough
to
force
thee
to
no
more
than
weeping
,
sith
it
is
as
likely
that
he
hath
bene
taken
away
vpon
hatred
by
his
enemies
,
as
vpon
loue
by
his
friends
.
For
hitherto
(
sayest
thou
)
his
friends
haue
all
failed
him
,
and
his
foes
preuailed
against
him
;
and
as
they
would
not
defend
him
aliue
,
are
lesse
likely
to
regard
him
dead
,
so
they
that
thought
one
life
too
little
to
take
from
him
,
are
not
vnlikely
after
death
to
wrecke
new
rage
vpon
him
.
And
though
this
doubt
were
not
,
yet
whosoeuer
hath
taken
him
,
hath
wronged
me
,
in
not
acquainting
me
with
it
:
for
to
take
away
mine
without
my
consent
,
can
neither
be
offered
with
out
iniurie
,
nor
suffered
without
sorrow
.
And
as
for
Iesus
,
he
was
my
Iesus
,
my
Lord
,
and
my
Maister
.
He
was
mine
because
he
was
giuen
vnto
me
,
&
borne
for
me
:
he
was
the
author
of
my
being
,
and
so
my
father
;
he
was
the
worker
of
my
well
doing
,
and
therefore
my
Sauiour
;
he
was
the
price
of
my
ransome
,
and
thereby
my
Redeemer
:
he
was
my
Lord
to
command
me
,
my
maister
to
instruct
me
,
my
pastor
to
feede
me
.
He
was
mine
,
because
his
loue
was
mine
,
and
when
he
gaue
me
his
loue
,
he
gaue
me
himselfe
,
sith
loue
is
no
gift
except
the
giuer
be
giuen
with
it
,
yea
it
is
no
loue
,
vnlesse
it
be
as
liberall
of
that
it
is
,
as
of
that
it
hath
.
Finally
,
if
the
meate
be
mine
that
I
eate
,
the
life
mine
wherewith
I
liue
,
or
he
mine
,
all
whose
life
,
labours
,
and
death
were
mine
,
then
dare
I
boldly
say
that
Iesus
is
mine
,
sith
on
his
body
I
feed
,
by
his
loue
I
liue
,
and
to
my
good
without
any
neede
of
his
owne
,
hath
he
liued
,
laboured
,
and
dyed
.
And
therefore
though
his
Disciples
,
though
the
Centurion
,
yea
though
the
Angels
haue
taken
him
,
they
haue
done
me
wrong
,
in
defeating
me
of
my
right
,
sith
I
neuer
meane
to
resigne
my
interest
.
But
what
if
he
hath
taken
away
himselfe
,
wilt
thou
also
lay
iniustice
to
his
charge
?
Though
he
be
thine
,
yet
thine
to
command
,
not
to
obey
;
thy
Lord
to
dispose
of
thee
,
and
not
to
be
by
thee
disposed
:
and
therefore
,
as
it
is
no
reason
that
the
seruant
should
be
maister
of
his
maisters
secrets
,
so
might
he
,
and
peraduenture
so
hath
he
,
remoued
without
acquainting
thee
whither
,
reuiuing
himselfe
with
the
same
power
with
which
he
raised
thy
dead
brother
,
and
fulfilling
the
words
that
he
often
vttered
of
his
resurrection
.
It
may
be
thou
wilt
say
,
that
a
gift
once
giuen
,
cannot
be
reuoked
,
and
therefore
though
it
were
before
in
his
choise
,
not
to
giue
himselfe
vnto
thee
,
yet
the
deed
of
gift
being
once
made
,
he
cannot
be
taken
from
thee
,
neither
can
the
donor
dispose
of
his
gift
without
the
possessors
priuity
.
And
sith
this
is
a
rule
in
the
law
of
nature
,
thou
maist
imagine
it
a
breach
of
equine
,
and
an
impeachment
of
thy
right
,
to
conuey
himselfe
away
without
thy
consent
.
But
to
this
I
will
answer
thee
with
thine
owne
ground
.
For
if
he
be
thine
by
being
giuen
thee
once
:
thou
art
his
by
as
many
gifts
,
as
dayes
,
and
therefore
he
being
absolute
owner
of
thee
,
is
likewise
full
owner
of
whatsoeuer
is
thine
:
and
consequently
because
he
is
thine
,
he
is
also
his
owne
,
and
so
nothing
lyable
vnto
thee
,
for
taking
him selfe
from
thee
.
Yea
,
but
he
is
my
Lord
(
sayest
thou
)
and
in
this
respect
,
bound
to
keepe
me
,
at
the
least
bound
not
to
kill
me
:
and
sith
killing
is
nothing
but
a
seu●ring
of
life
from
the
body
,
he
being
the
chiefe
life
both
of
my
soule
and
bodie
,
cannot
possibly
go
from
me
,
but
he
must
with
a
double
death
kill
me
.
And
therefore
he
being
my
Lord
,
and
bound
to
protect
his
seruant
,
it
is
against
all
lawes
that
I
should
be
thus
forsaken
.
But
ô
cruell
tongue
,
why
pleadest
thou
thus
against
him
,
whose
case
I
feare
me
is
so
pitifull
,
that
it
might
rather
moue
all
tongues
to
pleade
for
him
,
being
peraduenture
in
their
hands
,
whose
vumercifull
hearts
make
themselues
merry
with
his
miserie
,
and
build
the
triumphs
of
their
impious
victorie
vpon
the
dolefull
ruines
of
his
disgraced
glorie
?
And
now
(
ô
griefe
)
because
I
know
not
where
he
is
.
I
cannot
imagine
how
to
helpe
,
for
they
haue
taken
him
away
,
and
I
know
not
where
they
haue
put
him
.
Alas
Mary
,
why
doest
thou
consume
thy
felfe
with
these
cares
?
His
father
knoweth
,
and
he
will
helpe
him
.
The
Angels
know
,
and
they
will
guard
him
.
His
owne
soule
knoweth
,
and
that
will
assist
him
.
And
what
neede
then
is
there
,
that
thou
silly
woman
shouldest
know
it
,
that
canst
no
way
profit
him
?
But
I
feele
in
what
vaine
thy
pulse
beateth
,
and
by
thy
desire
I
discouer
thy
disease
.
Though
both
heauen
and
earth
did
know
it
,
and
the
whole
world
had
notice
of
it
,
yet
except
thou
also
wert
made
priuie
vnro
it
,
thy
woes
would
be
as
great
,
and
thy
teares
as
many
.
That
others
see
the
Sunne
,
doth
not
lighten
thy
darknesse
,
neither
can
others
eating
satisfie
thy
hunger
.
The
more
there
be
that
know
of
him
,
the
greater
is
thy
sorrow
,
that
among
so
many
thou
art
not
thought
worthy
to
be
one
.
And
the
more
there
be
that
may
helpe
him
,
the
move
it
grieueth
thee
that
thy
poore
helpe
is
not
accepted
among
them
.
Though
thy
knowiedge
needeth
not
,
thy
loue
doth
desire
it
,
and
though
it
auaile
not
,
thy
desire
wil
seeke
it
.
If
all
know
it
,
thou
wouldest
know
it
with
all
:
if
no
other
,
thou
wouldest
know
it
alone
,
and
from
whom
soeuer
it
be
concealed
,
it
must
be
no
secret
to
thee
.
Though
the
knowledge
would
discomfort
thee
,
yet
know
it
thou
wilt
,
yea
though
it
would
kill
thee
,
thou
couldest
not
forbeare
it
.
Thy
Lord
to
thy
loue
is
like
drinke
to
the
thirstie
,
which
if
they
cannot
haue
,
they
die
for
drouth
,
being
long
without
it
they
pine
away
with
longing
.
And
as
men
in
extremitie
of
thirst
are
still
dreaming
of
fountaines
,
brookes
,
and
springs
,
being
neuer
able
to
haue
other
thought
,
or
to
vtter
other
word
but
of
drinke
and
moisture
:
so
louers
in
the
vehemencie
of
their
passion
,
can
neither
thinke
nor
speake
but
of
that
they
loue
,
and
if
that
be
once
missing
,
euery
part
is
both
an
eye
to
watch
,
and
an
eare
to
listen
,
what
hope
or
newes
may
be
had
.
If
it
be
good
,
they
die
till
they
heare
it
,
though
bad
yet
they
cannot
liue
without
it
.
Of
the
good
,
they
hope
that
it
is
the
very
best
;
and
of
the
euill
,
they
feare
it
to
be
the
worst
:
and
yet
though
neuer
so
good
they
pine
till
it
be
told
,
and
be
it
neuer
so
euill
,
they
are
importunate
to
know
it
.
And
when
they
once
know
it
,
they
can
neither
beare
the
ioy
nor
brooke
the
sorrow
,
but
as
well
the
one
as
the
other
is
enough
to
kill
them
.
And
this
,
ô
Mary
,
I
guesse
to
be
the
cause
why
the
Angels
would
not
tell
thee
thy
Lords
estate
.
For
if
it
had
beene
to
thy
liking
,
thou
wouldest
haue
died
for
ioy
,
if
otherwise
thou
wouldest
haue
sunke
downe
for
sorrow
.
And
therefore
they
leaue
this
newes
for
him
to
deliuer
,
whose
word
if
it
giue
thee
a
wound
,
is
also
a
salue
to
cure
it
,
though
neuer
so
deadly
.
But
alas
afflicted
soule
,
why
doth
it
so
deepely
grieue
thee
,
that
thou
knowest
not
where
he
is
?
Thou
canst
not
better
him
if
he
be
well
,
thou
canst
as
little
succour
him
if
he
be
ill
:
and
sith
thou
fearest
that
he
is
rather
ill
than
well
,
why
shouldest
thou
know
it
,
so
to
end
thy
hopes
in
mishap
,
and
thy
great
feares
in
farre
greater
sorrowes
?
Alas
,
to
aske
thee
why
,
is
in
a
manner
to
aske
one
halfe
starued
why
he
is
hungrie
.
For
as
thy
Lord
is
the
food
of
thy
thoughts
,
the
reliefe
of
thy
wishes
,
the
onely
repast
of
all
thy
desires
:
so
is
thy
loue
a
continuall
hunger
,
and
his
absence
vnto
thee
an
extreame
famine
.
And
therefore
no
maruell
though
thou
art
so
greedy
to
heare
,
yea
to
deuoure
any
,
be
it
neuer
so
bitter
notice
of
him
,
sith
thy
hunger
is
most
violent
,
and
nothing
but
he
able
to
content
it
.
And
albeit
the
hearing
of
his
harmes
should
worke
the
same
in
thy
mind
,
that
vnwholsome
meat
worketh
in
a
sick
stomacke
:
yet
if
it
once
concerne
him
that
thou
louest
,
thy
hungrie
loue
could
not
temper
it selfe
from
it
,
though
after
with
many
wringing
gripes
,
it
did
a
long
and
vnpleasant
penance
.
But
why
doth
thy
sorrow
quest
so
much
vpon
the
place
where
he
is
?
were
it
not
enough
for
thee
to
know
who
had
him
,
but
that
thou
must
also
know
in
what
place
he
is
bestowed
?
A
worse
place
than
a
graue
no
man
will
offer
,
and
many
farre
better
many
titles
will
allow
:
and
therefore
thou
maist
boldly
thinke
,
that
wheresoeuer
he
be
,
he
is
in
a
place
fitter
for
him
than
where
he
was
.
Thy
sister
Martha
confessed
him
to
be
the
Sonne
of
God
,
and
with
her
confession
agreed
thy
beliefe
.
And
what
place
more
conuenient
for
the
sonne
,
than
to
be
with
his
Father
,
the
businesse
for
which
he
hath
bene
so
long
from
him
,
being
now
fully
finished
?
If
he
be
the
Messias
,
as
thou
diddest
once
beleeue
,
it
was
said
of
him
,
That
he
should
ascend
on
high
,
and
leade
our
captiuitie
captiue
.
And
what
is
this
height
,
but
heauen
?
what
our
captiuitie
but
death
?
Death
therefore
is
become
his
captiue
,
and
it
is
like
that
with
the
spoyles
thereof
,
he
is
ascended
in
triumph
to
eternall
life
.
But
if
thou
canst
not
lift
thy
minde
to
so
fauourable
a
beliefe
,
yet
maiest
thou
very
well
suppose
that
he
is
in
Paradise
.
For
if
he
came
to
repaire
Adams
ruines
,
and
to
be
the
common
parent
of
our
redemption
,
as
Adam
was
of
our
originall
infection
:
reason
seemeth
to
require
,
that
hauing
endured
all
his
life
the
penaltie
of
Adams
exile
,
he
should
after
death
re-enter
possession
of
that
inheritance
which
Adam
lost
:
that
the
same
place
that
was
the
neast
where
sinne
was
first
hatched
,
may
be
now
the
child-bed
of
grace
and
mercy
.
And
if
sorrow
at
the
crosse
did
not
make
thee
as
deafe
,
as
at
the
Tombe
it
maketh
thee
forgetfull
,
thou
diddest
in
confirmation
hereof
heare
himselfe
say
to
one
of
the
theeues
,
that
the
same
day
he
should
be
with
him
in
Paradise
.
And
if
it
be
reason
that
no
shadow
should
be
more
priuiledged
than
the
body
,
no
figure
in
more
account
than
the
figured
truth
,
why
shouldest
thou
beleeue
that
Elias
and
Enoch
haue
bene
in
Paradise
these
many
ages
,
&
that
he
whom
they
but
as
tipes
resembled
,
should
be
excluded
from
thence
?
He
excelled
them
in
life
,
surpassed
them
in
miracles
,
he
was
farre
beyond
them
in
dignitie
:
why
then
should
not
his
place
be
farre
aboue
,
or
at
the
least
equall
with
theirs
,
sith
their
prerogatiues
were
so
farre
inferiour
vnto
his
?
And
yet
if
the
basenesse
and
misery
of
his
passion
haue
layd
him
so
low
in
thy
conceit
,
that
thou
thinkest
Paradise
too
high
a
place
to
be
likely
to
haue
him
:
the
very
lowest
roome
that
any
reason
can
assigne
him
,
cannot
be
meaner
than
the
bosome
of
Abraham
.
And
sith
God
in
his
life
did
so
often
acknowledge
him
for
his
Sonne
,
it
seemeth
the
slenderest
preheminence
that
he
can
giue
him
aboue
other
men
,
that
being
his
holy
one
,
he
should
not
in
his
body
see
corruption
,
but
be
free
among
the
dead
,
reposing
both
in
body
and
soule
,
where
other
Saints
are
in
soule
onely
.
Let
not
therefore
the
place
where
he
is
trouble
thee
,
sith
it
cannot
be
worse
than
his
graue
,
and
infinite
coniectures
make
probability
that
it
cannot
but
be
better
.
But
suppose
that
he
were
yet
remaining
on
earth
,
and
taken
by
others
out
of
his
Tombe
,
what
would
it
auaile
thee
to
know
where
he
were
?
If
he
be
with
such
as
loue
and
honour
him
,
they
will
be
as
warie
to
keepe
him
,
as
they
are
loth
he
should
be
lost
:
and
therefore
will
either
often
change
,
or
neuer
confesse
the
place
,
knowing
secresie
to
be
the
surest
locke
to
defend
so
great
a
treasure
.
If
those
haue
taken
him
,
that
malice
and
maligne
him
,
thou
maist
well
iudge
him
past
thy
recouerie
,
when
he
is
once
in
possession
of
so
cruell
owners
.
Thou
wouldest
haply
make
sale
of
thy
liuing
,
and
seeke
him
by
ransome
.
But
it
is
not
likely
they
would
sell
him
to
be
honoured
,
that
bought
him
to
be
murthered
.
If
price
would
not
serue
,
thou
wouldest
fall
to
prayer
.
But
how
can
prayer
soften
such
flinty
hearts
?
And
if
they
scorned
so
many
teares
offered
for
his
life
,
as
little
will
they
regard
thy
intreatie
for
his
coarse
.
If
neither
price
nor
prayer
would
preuaile
,
thou
wouldest
attempt
it
by
force
.
But
alas
silly
souldier
,
thy
armes
are
too
weake
to
manage
weapons
,
and
the
issue
of
thy
assault
,
would
be
the
losse
of
thy selfe
.
If
no
other
way
would
helpe
,
thou
wouldest
purloine
him
by
stealth
,
and
thinke
thy selfe
happie
in
contriuing
such
a
theft
.
O
Mary
,
thou
art
deceiued
,
for
malice
will
haue
many
locks
:
and
to
steale
him
from
a
thiefe
,
that
could
steale
him
from
the
watch
,
requireth
more
cunning
in
the
Art
,
than
thy
want
of
practise
can
affoord
thee
.
Yet
if
these
be
the
causes
that
thou
enquired
of
the
place
,
thou
shewest
the
force
of
thy
rare
affection
,
and
deseruest
the
Lawrell
of
a
perfect
louer
.
But
to
feele
more
of
their
sweetnesse
,
I
will
poune
these
spices
,
and
dwell
a
while
in
the
peruse
of
thy
resolute
seruour
.
And
first
,
can
thy
loue
enrich
thee
when
thy
goods
are
gone
,
or
a
dead
coarse
repay
the
value
of
thy
ransome
?
Because
he
had
neither
bed
to
be
borne
in
,
nor
graue
to
be
buried
in
,
wilt
thou
therefore
rather
be
poore
with
him
,
than
rich
without
him
?
Againe
,
if
thou
hadst
to
sue
to
some
cruell
Scribe
or
Pharisie
,
that
is
,
to
an
heart
boyling
in
rancor
,
with
an
heart
burning
in
loue
,
for
a
thing
of
him
aboue
all
things
detested
,
of
thee
aboue
all
things
desired
:
as
his
enemie
to
whom
thou
suest
,
and
his
friend
for
whom
thou
intrearest
:
canst
thou
thinke
it
possible
for
this
sute
to
speede
?
Could
thy
loue
repaire
thee
from
his
rage
,
or
such
a
tyrant
stoupe
to
a
womans
teares
?
Thirdly
,
if
thy
Lord
might
be
recouered
by
violence
,
art
thou
so
armed
in
compleat
loue
,
that
thou
thinkest
it
sufficient
harnesse
?
or
doth
thy
loue
indue
thee
with
such
a
Iudiths
spirit
,
or
lend
thee
such
Sampsons
locks
,
that
thou
canst
breake
open
huge
gates
,
or
foyle
whole
armies
?
Is
thy
loue
so
sure
a
shield
,
that
no
blow
can
breake
it
,
or
so
sharpe
a
dint
,
that
no
force
can
withstand
it
?
Can
it
thus
alter
sexe
,
change
nature
,
and
exceede
all
Art
?
But
of
all
other
courses
wouldest
thou
aduenture
a
theft
to
obtaine
thy
desire
?
A
good
deed
must
be
well
done
,
and
a
worke
of
mercy
without
breach
of
iustice
.
It
were
a
sinne
to
steale
prophane
treasure
,
but
to
steale
an
annointed
Prophet
,
can
be
no
lesse
than
sacriledge
.
And
what
greater
staine
to
thy
Lord
,
to
his
doctrine
,
and
to
thy selfe
,
than
to
see
thee
his
Disciple
publikely
executed
for
an
open
theft
?
O
Mary
,
vnlesse
thy
loue
haue
better
warrant
than
common
sense
,
I
can
hardly
see
how
such
designements
can
be
approued
.
Approued
(
saith
she
,
)
I
would
to
God
the
execution
were
as
easie
as
the
proofe
,
and
I
should
not
long
bewaile
my
vnfortunate
losse
.
To
others
it
seemeth
ill
to
preferre
loue
before
riches
,
but
to
loue
it
seemeth
worse
to
preferre
any
thing
before
it selfe
.
Cloath
him
with
plates
of
siluer
that
shiuereth
for
cold
,
or
fill
his
purse
with
treasure
that
pineth
with
hunger
,
&
see
whether
the
plates
will
warme
him
,
or
the
treasure
feede
him
.
No
,
no
,
he
will
giue
vs
all
his
plates
for
a
woollen
garment
,
and
all
his
money
for
a
meales
meate
.
Euery
supply
fitteth
not
with
euery
neede
,
and
the
loue
of
so
sweete
a
Lord
hath
no
correspondence
in
worldly
wealth
.
Without
him
I
were
poore
,
though
Empresse
of
the
world
.
With
him
I
were
rich
though
I
had
nothing
else
.
They
that
haue
most
are
accounted
richest
and
they
thought
to
haue
most
,
that
haue
all
they
desire
:
and
therefore
as
in
him
alone
is
the
vttermost
of
my
desires
,
so
he
alone
is
the
summe
of
all
my
substance
.
It
were
too
happy
an
exchange
,
to
haue
God
for
goods
,
and
too
rich
a
pouertie
to
enioy
the
onely
treasure
of
the
world
.
If
I
were
so
fortunate
a
begger
,
I
would
disdaine
Salomons
wealth
,
and
my
loue
being
so
highly
enriched
,
my
life
should
neuer
complaine
of
want
.
And
if
all
I
am
worth
would
not
reach
to
his
ransome
,
what
should
hinder
to
seeke
him
by
intreaty
?
Though
I
were
to
sue
to
the
gaeatest
Tyrant
,
yet
the
equitie
of
my
sute
is
more
than
halfe
a
graunt
.
If
many
drops
soften
the
hardest
stones
,
why
should
not
many
teares
supple
the
most
stony
hearts
?
What
anger
so
fiery
that
may
not
be
quenched
with
eye-water
;
sith
a
weeping
suppliant
●ebateth
the
edge
of
more
than
a
Lyons
furie
?
My
sute
it selfe
would
sue
for
me
,
and
so
dolefull
a
coarse
would
quicken
pitty
in
the
most
yron
hearts
.
But
suppose
that
by
touching
a
ranckled
sore
,
my
touch
should
anger
it
,
and
my
petition
at
the
first
incense
him
that
heard
it
:
he
would
percase
reuile
me
in
words
,
and
the●
his
owne
iniurie
would
recoyle
with
remorse
,
and
be
vnto
me
a
patron
to
proceede
in
my
request
.
And
if
he
should
accompanie
his
words
with
blowes
,
and
his
blowes
with
wounds
,
it
may
be
my
stripes
would
smart
in
his
guiltie
minde
,
and
his
conscience
bleed
in
my
bleeding
wounds
,
and
my
innocent
bloud
so
entender
his
Adamant
heart
,
that
his
owne
inward
feelings
would
pleade
my
cause
,
and
peraduenture
obtaine
my
sute
.
But
if
through
extremity
of
spite
he
should
happen
to
kil
me
,
his
offence
might
easily
redound
to
my
felicitie
.
For
he
would
be
as
carefull
to
hide
whom
he
had
vniustly
murthered
,
as
him
whom
hee
had
felloniously
stolen
:
and
so
it
is
like
that
he
would
hide
me
in
the
same
place
where
he
had
layd
my
Lord
.
And
as
he
hated
vs
both
for
one
cause
,
him
for
challenging
,
and
me
for
acknowledging
that
he
was
the
Messias
:
so
would
he
vse
vs
both
after
one
manner
.
And
thus
what
comfort
my
body
wanted
,
my
soule
should
enioy
,
in
seeing
a
part
of
my selfe
partner
of
my
Maisters
misery
:
with
whom
to
be
miserable
,
I
reckon
an
higher
fortune
,
than
without
him
to
be
most
happy
.
And
if
no
other
meane
would
serue
to
recouer
him
but
force
,
I
see
no
reason
why
it
might
not
very
well
become
me
.
None
will
barre
me
from
defending
my
life
,
which
the
least
worme
in
the
right
nature
hath
leaue
to
preserue
.
And
sith
he
is
to
me
so
deare
a
life
,
that
without
him
all
life
is
death
,
nature
authoriseth
my
feeble
forces
,
to
employ
their
vttermost
in
so
necessary
an
attempt
.
Necessitie
addeth
abilitie
,
and
loue
doubleth
necessitie
,
and
it
often
happeneth
that
nature
armed
with
loue
,
and
pressed
with
neede
,
exceedeth
it selfe
in
might
,
and
surmounteth
all
hope
in
successe
.
And
as
the
equitie
of
the
cause
doth
breath
courage
into
the
defenders
,
making
them
the
mote
willing
to
fight
,
and
the
lesse
vnwilling
to
dye
so
guiltie
consciences
are
euer
timorous
,
still
starting
with
sodaine
frightts
,
and
afraid
of
their
own
suspitions
,
ready
to
yeeld
before
the
assault
,
vpon
distresse
of
their
cause
,
and
despaire
of
their
defence
.
Sith
therefore
to
rescue
an
innocent
,
to
recouer
a
right
,
&
to
redresse
so
deepe
a
wrong
,
is
so
iust
a
quarrell
:
nature
will
enable
me
,
loue
encourage
me
,
grace
confirme
me
,
and
the
iudge
of
all
iustice
fight
in
my
behalfe
.
And
if
it
seeme
vnfitting
to
my
sexe
in
talke
,
much
more
in
practise
to
deale
with
materiall
affaires
:
yet
when
such
a
cause
happeneth
as
neuer
had
patterne
,
such
effects
must
follow
as
are
without
example
.
There
was
neuer
any
body
of
a
God
but
one
,
neither
such
a
body
stolne
but
now
,
neuer
such
a
stealth
vnreuenged
but
this
.
Sith
therefore
the
Angels
neglect
it
;
and
men
forge●
,
O
Iudith
lend
me
thy
prowesse
,
for
I
am
bound
to
regard
it
.
But
suppose
that
my
force
were
vnable
to
winne
him
by
an
open
enterprise
,
what
scruple
should
keepe
me
from
seeking
him
by
secret
meanes
?
yea
and
by
plaine
stealth
,
it
will
be
thought
a
sinne
,
and
condemned
for
a
theft
.
O
sweet
sinne
,
why
was
not
I
the
first
that
did
commit
thee
?
Why
did
I
suffer
any
other
sinner
to
preuent
me
?
For
stealing
from
God
his
honour
I
was
called
a
sinner
,
and
vnder
that
title
was
spread
my
infamie
.
But
for
stealing
God
from
a
false
owner
,
I
was
not
worthy
to
be
called
a
sinner
,
because
it
had
bene
too
high
a
glory
.
If
this
be
so
great
a
sinne●
,
and
so
haynous
a
theft
,
let
others
make
choise
of
what
titles
they
will
,
but
for
my
part
I
would
refuse
to
be
an
Angell
,
I
would
not
wish
to
be
a
Saint
,
I
would
neuer
be
esteemed
either
iust
or
true
,
and
I
should
be
best
contented
if
I
might
but
liue
and
die
such
a
sinner
,
and
be
condemned
for
such
a
theft
.
When
I
heard
my
Lord
make
so
comfortable
a
promise
to
the
theefe
vpon
the
Crosse
,
that
he
should
that
day
be
with
him
in
Paradise
,
I
had
halfe
an
enuie
at
that
theeues
good
fortune
,
&
wished
my selfe
in
the
theefes
place
,
so
I
might
haue
enioyed
the
fruit
of
his
promise
.
But
if
I
could
be
so
happy
a
theefe
,
as
to
commit
this
theft
,
if
that
wish
had
taken
effect
,
I
would
now
vnwish
it
againe
,
and
scorne
to
be
any
other
theefe
than
my selfe
,
sith
my
booty
could
make
me
happier
than
any
other
theefes
felicitie
.
And
what
though
my
fellonie
should
be
called
in
question
,
in
what
respect
should
I
need
to
feare
?
They
would
say
,
that
I
loued
him
too
well
;
but
that
were
soone
disproued
,
sith
where
the
worthinesse
is
infinite
,
no
loue
can
be
enough
.
They
would
obiect
that
I
stole
anothers
goods
:
and
as
for
that
,
many
sure
titles
of
my
interest
would
auerre
him
to
be
mine
,
and
his
dead
coarse
would
rather
speak
than
witnesses
should
faile
to
depose
so
certaine
a
truth
.
And
if
I
had
not
a
speciall
right
vnto
him
,
what
should
moue
me
to
venture
my
life
for
him
?
No
no
,
if
I
were
so
happy
a
fellon
,
I
should
feare
no
temporall
arraignment
:
I
should
rather
feare
that
the
Angels
would
cite
me
to
my
answere
;
for
preuenting
them
in
the
theft
,
sith
not
the
highest
Seraphin
in
heauen
,
but
would
deem
it
a
higher
stile
than
his
owne
,
to
be
the
theefe
that
had
committed
so
glorious
a
robberie
.
But
alas
,
thus
stand
I
now
deuising
what
I
would
do
,
if
I
knew
any
thing
of
him
,
and
in
the
meane
time
I
neither
know
who
hath
him
,
nor
where
they
haue
bestowed
him
,
and
still
I
am
forced
to
dwell
in
this
answer
,
that
they
haue
taken
away
my
Lord
,
and
I
know
not
where
they
haue
put
him
.
While
Mary
thus
lost
her selfe
in
a
Labyrinth
of
doubts
,
watering
her
words
with
teares
,
and
warming
them
with
sighes
,
seeing
the
Angels
with
a
kinde
of
reuerence
rise
,
as
though
they
had
done
honour
to
one
behind
her
:
She
turned
backe
,
and
she
saw
Iesus
standing
,
but
that
it
was
Iesus
she
knew
not
.
O
Mary
,
is
it
possible
that
thou
hast
forgotten
Iesus
?
Faith
hath
written
him
in
thy
vnderstanding
,
loue
in
thy
will
,
both
feare
and
hope
in
thy
memory
:
and
how
can
all
these
Registers
be
so
cancelled
,
that
so
plainely
seeing
,
thou
shouldest
not
know
the
contents
?
For
him
onely
thou
tirest
thy
feet
,
thou
bendest
thy
knees
,
thou
wringest
thy
handes
.
For
him
thy
heart
throbbeth
,
thy
breast
sigheth
,
thy
tongue
complaineth
.
For
him
thine
eye
weepeth
,
thy
thought
sorroweth
,
thy
whole
body
fainteth
,
and
thy
soule
languisheth
.
In
summe
,
there
is
no
part
in
thee
,
but
is
busie
about
him
,
and
notwithstanding
all
this
,
hast
thou
now
forgotten
him
?
His
countenance
auoucheth
it
,
his
voice
assureth
it
,
his
wounds
witnesse
it
,
thine
owne
eyes
behold
it
,
and
doest
thou
not
yet
beleeue
that
this
is
Iesus
?
Are
thy
sharpe
seeing
eyes
become
so
weake
sighted
,
that
they
are
dazeled
with
the
Sunne
,
and
blinded
with
the
light
?
But
there
is
such
a
shower
of
teares
betweene
thee
and
him
,
and
thine
eyes
are
so
dimmed
with
weeping
for
him
,
that
though
thou
seest
the
shape
of
a
man
,
yet
thou
canst
not
discerne
him
.
Thy
eares
also
are
still
so
possessed
with
the
dolefull
Eccho
of
his
last
speeches
,
which
want
of
breath
made
him
vtter
in
a
dying
voice
,
that
the
force
and
loudnesse
of
his
liuing
words
,
maketh
thee
imagine
it
the
voyce
of
a
stranger
:
and
therefore
as
he
seemeth
vnto
thee
so
like
a
stranger
,
he
asketh
this
question
of
thee
,
O
woman
why
weepest
thou
,
whom
seekest
thou
?
O
desire
of
the
heart
,
and
onely
ioy
of
her
soule
,
why
demandest
thou
why
she
weepeth
,
or
for
whom
she
seeketh
?
But
a
while
since
she
saw
thee
her
onely
hope
hanging
on
a
tree
,
with
thy
head
full
of
thornes
,
thy
eyes
full
of
teares
,
thy
eares
full
of
blasphemies
,
thy
mouth
full
of
gall
thy
whole
person
mangled
and
disfigured
,
and
doest
thou
aske
her
why
she
weepeth
?
Scarce
three
dayes
passed
,
she
beheld
thy
armes
and
legges
racked
with
violent
puls
,
thy
hands
and
feete
boared
with
nayles
,
thy
side
wounded
with
a
speare
,
thy
whole
bodie
torne
with
stripes
,
and
goared
in
blood
,
and
doest
thou
her
onely
griefe
,
aske
her
why
she
weepeth
?
She
beheld
thee
vpon
the
Crosse
with
many
teares
,
and
most
lamentable
cryes
,
yeelding
vp
her
ghost
,
that
is
,
thy
owne
ghost
,
and
alas
asketh
thou
why
she
weepeth
?
And
now
to
make
vp
her
miserie
,
hauing
but
one
hope
aliue
,
which
was
,
that
for
a
small
reliefe
of
her
other
afflictions
,
she
might
haue
annointed
thy
body
;
that
hope
is
also
dead
,
since
thy
body
is
remoued
and
she
now
standeth
hopelesse
of
all
helpe
,
and
demandest
thou
why
she
weepeth
▪
and
for
whom
she
seeketh
?
Full
well
thou
knowest
,
that
thee
onely
she
desireth
,
thee
onely
she
loueth
,
all
things
beside
thee
she
cont●mneth
,
and
canst
thou
finde
in
thy
heart
to
aske
her
whom
she
seeketh
?
To
what
end
ô
sweet
Lord
,
doest
thou
thus
suspend
her
longings
,
prolong
her
desires
,
and
martyr
her
with
these
tedious
delayes
?
Thou
onely
art
the
fortresse
of
her
faint
faith
,
the
anker
of
her
wauering
hope
,
the
very
center
of
her
vehement
loue
:
to
thee
she
trusteth
,
vpon
thee
she
relyeth
,
and
of
her selfe
she
wholly
despaireth
.
She
is
so
earnest
in
seeking
thee
that
she
can
neither
seeke
nor
thinke
any
other
thing
:
and
all
her
wits
are
so
busied
in
musing
vpon
thee
,
that
they
draw
all
attention
from
her
senses
,
wherewith
they
should
discerne
thee
.
Being
therefore
so
attentiue
to
that
she
thinketh
,
what
maruell
though
she
marke
not
whom
she
seeth
:
and
sith
thou
hast
so
perfect
notice
of
her
thought
and
she
so
little
power
to
discouer
thee
by
sense
,
why
demandest
thou
for
whom
she
seeketh
,
or
why
she
weepeth
?
Doest
thou
looke
that
she
should
answere
,
for
thee
I
seeke
,
or
for
thee
I
weepe
?
vnlesse
thou
wilt
vnbend
her
thoughts
,
that
her
eyes
may
fully
see
thee
:
or
while
thou
wilt
be
concealed
,
doest
thou
expect
that
she
should
be
able
to
know
thee
?
But
,
ô
Mary
,
not
without
cause
doth
he
aske
thee
this
question
.
Thou
wouldest
haue
him
aliue
,
and
yet
thou
weepest
because
thou
doest
not
find
him
dead
.
Thou
art
some
that
he
is
not
here
,
and
for
this
very
cause
thou
shouldest
rather
be
glad
.
For
if
he
were
dead
I
it
is
most
likely
he
should
be
here
;
but
not
being
here
,
it
is
a
signe
that
he
is
aliue
.
He
reioyceth
to
be
out
of
his
graue
,
and
thou
weepest
because
he
is
not
in
it
.
He
will
not
lie
any
where
,
and
thou
sorrowest
for
not
knowing
where
he
lyeth
.
Alas
,
why
bewailest
thou
his
glory
,
and
iniurest
the
reuiuing
of
his
body
as
the
robbery
of
his
coarse
?
He
being
aliue
,
for
what
dead
man
mournest
thou
,
and
he
being
present
,
whose
absence
doest
thou
lament
?
But
she
taking
him
to
be
a
Gardener
said
vnto
him
,
O
Lord
,
if
thou
hast
carried
him
from
hence
,
tell
me
where
thou
hast
layd
him
,
and
I
will
take
him
away
.
O
wonderfull
effects
of
Maries
loue
,
if
loue
be
a
languor
,
how
liueth
she
by
it
?
If
loue
be
her
life
,
how
dyeth
she
in
it
?
If
it
bereaued
her
of
sense
,
how
did
she
see
the
Angels
?
If
it
quickened
her
of
sense
,
why
knew
she
not
Iesus
?
Doest
thou
seeke
for
one
,
whom
when
thou
hast
found
thou
knowest
not
?
or
if
thou
dost
know
him
when
thou
findest
him
,
why
doest
thou
seek
when
thou
hast
him
?
Behold
Iesus
is
come
,
and
the
partie
whom
thou
seekest
,
is
he
that
talketh
with
thee
,
ô
Mary
call
vp
thy
wits
,
and
open
thine
eyes
.
Hath
thy
Lord
liued
so
long
laboured
so
much
died
with
such
paine
,
and
shed
such
showers
of
bloud
,
to
come
to
no
higher
preferment
,
than
to
be
a
Gardener
?
And
hast
thou
bestowed
such
cost
,
so
much
sorrow
,
and
so
many
teares
,
for
no
better
man
than
a
silly
Gardener
?
Alas
,
is
the
sorry
Garden
the
best
inheritance
that
thy
loue
can
affoord
him
,
or
a
Gardeners
office
the
highest
dignitie
that
thou
wilt
allow
him
?
It
had
bene
better
he
had
liued
to
haue
bene
Lord
of
thy
Castle
,
than
with
his
death
so
dearely
to
haue
bought
so
small
a
purchase
.
But
thy
mistaking
,
hath
in
it
a
further
mysterie
.
Thou
thinkest
not
amisse
,
though
thy
sight
be
deceiued
.
For
as
our
first
Father
,
in
the
state
of
grace
and
innocencie
,
was
placed
in
the
Garden
of
pleasure
,
and
the
first
office
allotted
him
was
to
be
a
Gardener
:
so
the
first
man
that
euer
was
in
glorie
,
appeareth
first
in
a
Garden
,
and
presenteth
himselfe
in
a
Gardeners
likenesse
,
that
the
beginnings
of
glorie
might
resemble
the
entrance
of
innocencie
and
grace
.
And
as
the
Gardener
was
the
fall
of
mankinde
,
the
parent
of
sinne
,
and
authour
of
death
,
so
is
this
Gardener
the
raiser
of
our
ruines
,
the
ransome
of
our
offences
;
and
the
restorer
of
life
.
In
a
Garden
Adam
was
deceiued
and
taken
captiue
by
the
deuill
.
In
a
Garden
Christ
was
betrayed
and
taken
prisoner
by
the
Iewes
.
In
a
Garden
Adam
was
condemned
to
earne
his
bread
with
the
sweat
of
his
browes
.
And
after
a
free
gift
of
the
bread
of
Angels
in
the
last
Supper
,
in
a
Garden
Chrid
did
earne
it
vs
with
a
bloudy
sweate
of
his
whole
body
.
By
disobedient
eating
the
fruite
of
a
tree
,
our
right
to
that
Garden
was
by
Adam
forfeited
,
and
by
the
obedient
death
of
Christ
vpon
a
tree
a
farre
better
right
is
now
recouered
.
When
Adam
had
sinned
in
the
Garden
of
pleasure
,
he
was
there
apparelled
in
dead
beasts
skinnes
,
that
his
garment
might
betoken
his
graue
,
and
his
liuery
of
death
agree
with
his
condemnation
to
die
.
And
now
to
defray
the
debt
of
that
sinne
,
in
this
Garden
Christ
lay
cl●d
in
the
dead
mans
shrowd
,
and
buried
in
his
Tombe
,
that
as
our
harmes
began
,
so
they
might
end
;
and
such
places
and
meanes
as
were
the
premises
to
our
miserie
;
might
be
also
the
conclusions
of
our
misfortune
.
For
this
did
Christ
in
the
Canticles
,
inuite
vs
to
an
heauenly
banquet
after
he
was
come
into
this
Garden
,
and
had
reaped
his
myrrhe
,
and
his
spice
,
to
forewarne
vs
of
the
ioy
that
after
this
haruest
should
presently
ensue
,
namely
when
hauing
sowed
in
this
Garden
a
body
,
the
mortalitie
whereof
was
signified
by
those
spices
,
he
now
reaped
the
same
,
neither
capable
of
death
,
nor
subiect
to
corruption
.
For
this
also
was
Mary
permitted
to
mistake
,
that
we
might
be
informed
of
the
mysterie
,
and
see
how
aptly
the
course
of
our
redemption
did
answer
the
processe
of
our
condemnation
.
But
though
he
be
the
Gardener
that
hath
planted
the
tree
of
grace
,
and
restored
vs
to
the
vse
and
eating
of
the
fruites
of
life
.
Though
it
be
he
that
soweth
his
giftes
in
our
soules
,
quickening
in
vs
the
seeds
of
vertue
,
and
rooting
out
of
vs
the
weedes
of
sinne
:
yet
is
he
neuerthelesse
the
same
Iesus
he
was
,
and
the
borrowed
presence
of
a
meane
laborer
neither
altereth
his
person
,
nor
diminisheth
his
right
to
his
diuine
titles
.
Why
then
canst
thou
not
as
well
see
what
in
truth
he
is
,
as
what
in
shew
he
seemeth
?
but
because
thou
seest
more
than
thou
diddest
beleeue
,
and
findest
more
thrn
thy
faith
serueth
thee
to
seek
:
and
for
this
though
thy
loue
was
worthy
to
see
him
,
yet
thy
faith
was
vnworthy
to
know
him
.
Thou
diddest
seeke
for
him
as
dead
,
and
therefore
doest
not
know
him
seeing
him
aliue
;
and
because
thou
beleeuest
not
of
him
as
he
is
,
thou
doest
onely
see
him
as
he
seemeth
to
be
.
I
cannot
say
thou
art
faultlesse
,
sith
thou
art
so
lame
in
thy
beleefe
▪
but
thy
fault
deserueth
fauour
,
because
thy
charitie
is
so
great
:
and
therefore
ô
mercifull
Iesu
,
giue
me
leaue
to
excuse
whom
thou
art
minded
to
forgiue
.
She
thought
to
haue
found
thee
as
she
left
thee
,
and
she
sought
thee
as
she
did
last
see
thee
,
being
so
ouercome
with
sorow
for
thy
death
,
that
she
had
neither
roome
nor
respite
in
her
minde
for
any
hope
of
thy
life
:
and
being
so
deepely
interred
in
the
griefe
of
thy
buriall
that
she
could
not
raise
her
thoughts
to
any
conceit
of
thy
resurrection
.
For
in
the
graue
where
Ioseph
buried
thy
body
,
Mary
together
with
it
entombed
her
soule
,
and
so
straightly
combined
it
with
thy
coarse
,
that
she
could
with
more
ease
sunder
her
soule
from
her
owne
body
that
liueth
by
it
,
than
from
thy
dead
body
,
with
which
her
loue
did
burie
it
:
for
it
is
more
thine
and
in
thee
,
than
her
owne
or
in
her selfe
;
and
therefore
in
seeking
thy
body
,
she
seeketh
her
owne
soule
,
as
with
the
losse
of
the
one
,
she
also
lost
the
other
.
What
maruell
then
though
sense
faile
,
when
the
soule
is
lost
,
sith
the
lanterne
must
needes
be
darke
when
the
light
is
out
?
Restore
vnto
her
therfore
her
soule
that
lieth
imprisoned
in
thy
body
,
and
she
will
soone
both
recouer
her
sense
,
and
discouer
her
errour
.
For
alas
it
is
no
errour
that
proceedeth
of
any
will
to
erre
,
and
it
riseth
as
much
of
vehemencie
or
affection
,
as
of
default
in
faith
.
Regard
not
the
errour
of
a
woman
,
but
the
loue
of
a
Disciple
,
which
supplyeth
in
it selfe
what
in
faith
it
wanteth
.
O
Lord
(
saith
she
)
If
thou
hast
carried
him
hence
,
tell
me
where
thou
hast
laide
him
,
and
I
will
take
him
away
.
O
how
learned
is
her
ignorance
,
and
how
skilfull
her
errour
?
She
charged
not
the
Angels
with
thy
remouing
,
nor
seemed
to
mistrust
them
for
carrying
thee
away
,
as
though
that
her
loue
had
taught
her
that
their
helpe
was
needlesse
,
where
the
thing
remoued
was
remouer
of
it selfe
.
She
did
not
request
them
to
enforme
her
where
thou
wert
layd
,
as
if
she
had
reserued
that
question
for
thy selfe
to
answer
.
But
now
he
iudgeth
thee
so
likely
to
be
the
authour
of
her
losse
,
that
halfe
supposing
thee
guilty
,
she
sueth
a
recouerie
,
and
desireth
thee
to
tell
her
where
the
body
is
,
as
almost
fully
perswaded
that
thou
art
as
priuie
to
the
place
,
as
well
acquainted
with
the
action
.
So
that
if
she
be
not
altogether
right
,
she
is
not
very
much
wrong
,
and
she
erreth
with
such
ayme
,
that
she
very
little
misseth
the
truth
.
Tell
her
therefore
ô
Lord
,
what
thou
hast
done
with
thy selfe
,
sith
it
is
fittest
for
thy
owne
speech
to
vtter
that
which
was
onely
possible
for
thy
owne
power
to
performe
.
But
ô
Mary
,
sithens
thou
art
so
desirous
to
know
where
thy
Iesus
is
,
why
doest
thou
not
name
him
when
thou
askest
for
him
?
Thou
saidest
to
the
Angels
that
they
had
taken
away
thy
Lord
,
and
now
the
second
time
thou
askest
for
him
.
Are
thy
thoughts
so
visible
,
as
at
thy
onely
presence
to
be
seene
;
or
so
generall
,
that
they
possesse
all
when
they
are
once
in
thee
?
When
thou
speakest
of
him
,
what
him
doest
thou
meane
,
or
how
can
a
stranger
vnderstand
thee
when
thou
talkest
of
thy
Lord
?
Hath
the
world
no
other
Lords
but
thine
?
or
is
the
demanding
by
no
other
name
but
(
him
)
a
sufficient
notice
for
whom
thou
demandest
?
But
such
is
the
nature
of
thy
loue
,
thou
iudgest
that
no
other
should
be
entitled
a
Lord
,
sith
the
whole
world
is
too
little
for
thy
Lords
possession
,
and
that
those
few
creatures
that
are
,
cannot
chuse
but
know
him
,
sith
all
the
creatures
of
the
world
are
too
few
to
serue
him
.
And
as
his
worthinesse
can
appay
all
loues
,
and
his
onely
loue
content
all
hearts
,
so
thou
deemest
him
to
be
so
well
worthy
to
be
owner
of
all
thoughts
,
that
no
thought
in
thy
conceit
,
can
be
well
bestowed
vpon
any
other
.
Yet
thy
speeches
seeme
more
sudden
than
sound
,
and
more
peremptory
,
than
well
pondered
.
Why
doest
thou
say
so
resolutely
without
any
further
circumstance
,
that
if
this
Gardener
haue
taken
him
,
thou
wilt
take
him
from
him
?
If
he
had
him
by
right
,
in
taking
him
away
thou
shouldst
do
him
wrong
.
If
thou
supposest
he
wrongfully
tooke
him
,
thou
layest
theft
to
his
charge
:
and
howsoeuer
it
be
thou
either
condemnest
thy selfe
for
an
vsurper
,
or
him
for
a
thiefe
.
And
is
this
an
effect
of
thy
zealous
loue
,
first
to
abase
him
from
a
God
to
a
Gardener
,
and
now
to
degrade
him
from
a
Gardener
to
a
thiefe
?
Thou
shouldest
also
haue
considered
whether
he
tooke
him
vpon
loue
or
malice
.
If
it
were
for
loue
,
thou
maiest
assure
thy selfe
that
he
will
be
as
wary
to
keepe
,
as
he
was
venturous
to
get
him
,
and
therefore
thy
pollicie
was
weake
in
saying
,
thou
wouldest
take
him
away
before
thou
knewest
where
he
was
,
sith
none
is
so
simple
to
bewray
their
treasure
to
a
knowne
thiefe
.
If
he
tooke
him
of
malice
,
thy
offer
to
recouer
him
is
an
open
defiance
,
sith
malice
is
as
obstinate
in
defending
as
violent
in
offering
wrong
,
and
he
that
would
be
cruell
against
thy
maisters
dead
body
,
is
likely
to
be
more
furious
against
his
liuing
Disciples
.
But
thy
loue
had
no
leisure
to
cast
so
many
doubts
.
Thy
teares
were
Interpreters
of
thy
words
,
and
thy
innocent
meaning
was
written
in
thy
dolefull
countenance
.
Thine
eyes
were
rather
pleaders
for
pitty
than
Heraulds
of
wrath
,
and
thy
whole
person
presented
such
a
patterne
of
thy
extreame
anguish
,
that
no
man
from
thy
presence
could
take
in
any
other
impression
.
And
therefore
what
thy
words
wanted
,
thy
action
supplied
,
and
what
his
eare
might
mistake
his
eye
did
vnderstand
.
It
might
be
also
that
what
he
wrought
in
thy
heart
,
was
concealed
from
thy
sight
,
and
haply
his
voice
and
demeanour
did
import
such
compassion
of
thy
case
,
that
he
seemed
as
willing
to
affoord
as
thou
desirest
to
haue
his
helpe
.
And
so
presuming
by
his
behauiour
,
that
thy
suite
should
not
suffer
repulse
,
the
tenour
of
thy
request
doth
but
argue
thy
hope
of
a
graunt
.
But
what
is
the
reason
that
in
all
thy
speeches
,
which
since
the
misse
of
thy
maister
thou
hast
vttered
,
(
where
they
haue
put
him
)
is
alwayes
a
part
?
So
thou
saydest
to
the
Apostles
,
the
same
to
the
Angels
,
and
now
thou
doest
repeate
it
to
this
supposed
Garderner
:
very
sweete
must
this
word
be
in
thy
heart
,
that
is
so
often
in
thy
mouth
,
&
it
would
neuet
be
so
ready
in
thy
tongue
,
if
it
were
not
very
fresh
in
thy
memory
.
But
what
maruaile
though
it
tast
so
sweete
,
that
was
first
seasoned
in
thy
maisters
mouth
?
which
as
it
was
the
treasury
of
truth
,
the
fountaine
of
life
,
and
the
onely
quire
of
the
most
perfect
Harmonie
,
so
whatsoeuer
it
deliuered
,
thine
eare
deuoured
,
and
thy
heart
locked
vp
.
And
now
that
thou
wantest
himselfe
,
thou
hast
no
other
comfort
but
his
words
,
which
thou
deemest
so
much
the
more
effectuall
to
perswade
,
in
that
they
tooke
their
force
from
so
heauenly
a
speaker
.
His
sweetenesse
therefore
it
is
that
maketh
this
word
so
sweete
,
and
for
loue
of
him
thou
repeatest
it
so
often
,
because
he
in
the
like
case
said
of
thy
brother
,
Where
haue
you
put
him
?
O
how
much
doest
thou
affect
his
person
,
that
findest
so
sweete
a
feeling
in
his
phrase
!
How
much
desirest
thou
to
see
his
countenance
,
that
with
so
great
desire
pronouncest
his
wordes
?
And
how
willingly
wouldest
thou
licke
his
sacred
feete
,
that
so
willingly
vtterest
his
shortest
speeches
?
But
what
meanest
thou
to
make
so
absolute
a
promise
,
and
so
boldly
to
say
,
I
will
take
him
away
?
Ioseph
was
afraid
,
and
durst
not
take
downe
his
body
from
the
Crosse
but
by
night
,
yea
and
then
also
not
without
Pilats
warrant
,
but
thou
neither
stayest
vntill
night
,
nor
regardest
Pilate
,
but
stoutly
promisest
that
thou
thy selfe
wilt
take
him
away
.
What
if
he
be
in
the
pallace
of
the
high
Priest
,
and
some
such
maid
as
made
Saint
Peter
denie
his
maister
do
begin
to
question
with
thee
,
wilt
thou
then
stand
to
these
words
,
I
will
take
him
away
?
Is
thy
courage
so
high
aboue
kinde
,
thy
strength
so
farre
beyond
thy
sexe
,
&
thy
loue
so
much
without
measure
,
that
thou
neither
doest
remember
that
all
women
are
weake
,
not
that
thy selfe
art
but
a
woman
?
Thou
exemptest
no
place
,
thou
preferrest
no
person
,
thou
speakest
without
feare
,
thou
promisest
without
condition
,
thou
makest
no
exception
:
as
though
nothing
were
impossible
that
thy
loue
suggesteth
.
But
as
the
darknesse
could
not
fright
thee
from
setting
forth
before
day
,
nor
the
watch
feare
thee
from
comming
to
the
Tombe
:
as
thou
diddest
resolue
to
breake
open
the
seales
though
with
danger
of
thy
life
,
and
to
remoue
the
stone
from
the
graues
mouth
,
though
thy
force
could
not
serue
thee
:
so
what
maruaile
though
thy
loue
being
now
more
incensed
with
the
fresh
wound
of
thy
losse
,
it
resolue
vpon
any
though
neuer
so
hard
aduentures
?
Loue
is
not
ruled
with
reason
,
but
with
loue
.
It
neither
regardeth
what
can
be
,
nor
what
shall
be
done
,
but
onely
what
it selfe
desireth
to
do
.
No
difficulty
can
stay
it
,
no
impossibility
appall
it
.
Loue
is
title
iust
enough
and
Armour
strong
enough
for
all
assaults
,
and
it selfe
a
reward
of
all
labours
.
It
asketh
no
recompence
,
it
respecteth
no
commoditie
.
Loues
fruites
are
loues
effects
,
and
the
gaines
the
paines
.
It
considereth
behoofe
more
than
benefit
,
and
what
in
dutie
it
should
,
not
what
indeed
it
can
.
But
how
can
nature
be
so
maistered
with
affection
,
that
thou
canst
take
such
delight
and
carry
such
loue
to
a
dead
coarse
?
The
mother
how
tenderly
soeuer
she
loued
her
child
aliue
,
yet
she
cannot
chuse
but
loath
him
dead
.
The
most
louing
Spouse
cannot
endure
the
presence
of
her
deceassed
husband
,
and
whose
embracements
were
delightsome
in
life
,
are
euer
most
hatefull
after
death
.
Yea
this
is
the
nature
of
all
,
but
principally
of
women
,
that
the
very
conceit
,
much
more
the
sight
of
the
departed
striketh
into
them
so
fearefull
and
vgly
impressions
,
and
stirreth
in
them
so
great
horrour
,
that
notwithstanding
the
most
vehement
loue
,
they
thinke
long
vntill
the
house
is
ridde
of
their
very
dearest
friends
,
when
they
are
once
attyred
in
deaths
vnlouely
liueries
.
How
then
canst
thou
endure
to
take
vp
his
coarse
in
thy
hands
,
and
to
carry
it
thou
knowest
not
thy selfe
how
farre
,
being
especially
torne
and
mangled
,
and
consequently
the
more
likely
in
so
long
time
to
be
tainted
?
Thy
sister
was
vnwilling
that
the
graue
of
her
owne
brother
should
be
opened
,
and
yet
he
was
shrowded
in
sheets
,
embalmed
with
spices
,
and
died
an
ordinarie
death
,
without
any
wound
,
bruse
or
other
harme
,
that
might
hasten
his
corruption
.
But
this
coarse
hath
neither
shrowd
nor
spice
,
sith
these
are
to
be
seene
in
the
tombe
,
and
there
is
not
a
part
in
his
body
but
had
some
helpe
to
further
it
to
decay
;
and
art
thou
not
afraid
to
see
him
,
yea
to
touch
him
,
yea
to
embrace
and
carry
him
naked
in
thine
armes
?
If
thou
haddest
remembred
Gods
promise
,
that
His
holy
one
should
not
see
corruption
:
If
thou
haddest
beleeued
that
his
God-head
remaining
with
his
bodie
,
could
haue
preserued
it
from
perishing
,
thy
faith
had
bene
more
worthy
of
praise
,
but
thy
loue
lesse
worthy
of
admiration
,
sith
the
more
corruptible
thou
diddest
conceiue
him
,
the
more
combers
thou
diddest
determine
to
ouercome
,
and
the
greater
was
thy
loue
in
being
able
to
conquer
them
.
But
thou
wouldest
haue
thought
thy
oyntments
rather
harmes
than
helpes
,
if
thou
hadst
bene
setled
in
that
beleefe
,
and
for
so
heauenly
a
coarse
embalmed
with
God
,
all
earthly
spices
would
haue
seemed
a
disgrace
.
If
likewise
thou
haddest
firmely
trusted
vpon
his
resurrection
,
I
should
maruaile
at
thy
constant
designement
,
sith
all
hazards
in
taking
him
should
haue
bene
with
vsurie
repaide
,
if
lying
in
thy
lappe
,
thou
mightest
haue
seene
him
reuiued
,
and
his
disfigured
and
dead
body
beautified
in
thine
armes
with
a
diuine
maiestie
.
If
thou
haddest
hoped
so
good
fortune
to
thy
waterie
eyes
,
that
they
might
haue
bene
first
cleared
with
the
beames
of
his
desired
light
,
or
that
his
eyes
might
haue
blessed
thee
with
the
first
fruites
of
his
glorious
lookes
:
If
thou
haddest
imagined
any
likelihood
to
haue
made
happie
thy
dying
heart
with
taking
in
the
first
gaspes
of
his
liuing
breath
,
or
to
haue
heard
the
first
words
of
his
pleasing
voice
:
Finally
if
thou
haddest
thought
to
haue
seene
his
iniuries
turned
to
honours
,
the
markes
of
his
miserie
to
ornaments
of
glorie
,
and
the
depth
of
thy
heauinesse
to
such
an
height
of
felicity
,
whatsoeuer
thou
haddest
done
to
obtaine
him
had
bene
but
a
mite
for
a
million
,
and
too
slender
a
price
for
so
soueraigne
a
peniworth
.
But
hauing
no
such
hopes
to
vphold
thee
,
and
so
many
motiues
to
plonge
thee
in
despaire
,
how
could
thy
loue
be
so
mighty
,
as
neither
to
feele
a
womans
feare
of
so
deformed
a
coarse
,
nor
to
thinke
the
weight
of
the
burthen
too
heauy
for
thy
feeble
armes
,
nor
to
be
amated
with
a
world
of
dangers
that
this
attempt
did
carry
with
it
?
But
affection
cannot
feare
whom
it
affecteth
,
loue
feeleth
no
load
of
him
it
loueth
,
neither
can
true
frendship
be
frighted
from
rescuing
so
affied
a
friend
.
What
meanest
thou
then
,
ô
comfort
of
her
life
,
to
leaue
so
constant
a
wel-willer
so
long
vncomforted
,
and
to
punish
her
so
much
,
that
so
well
deserueth
pardon
?
Dally
no
longer
with
so
knowne
a
loue
,
which
so
many
trials
auouch
most
true
.
And
sith
she
is
nothing
but
what
it
pleaseth
thee
,
let
her
tast
the
benefit
of
being
onely
thine
.
She
did
not
follow
the
tide
of
thy
better
fortune
to
shift
saile
when
the
streame
did
alter
course
.
She
began
not
to
loue
thee
in
thy
life
to
leaue
thee
after
death
:
Neither
was
she
such
a
guest
at
thy
table
that
meant
to
be
a
stranger
in
thy
necessitie
.
She
left
thee
not
in
thy
lowest
ebbe
,
she
reuolted
not
from
thy
last
extremitie
:
In
thy
life
she
serued
thee
with
her
goods
:
in
thy
death
she
departed
not
from
the
Crosse
:
after
death
she
came
to
dwell
with
thee
at
thy
graue
.
Why
then
doest
thou
not
say
with
Naomi
?
Blessed
be
she
of
our
Lord
,
because
what
courtesie
she
afforded
to
the
quicke
,
she
hath
also
continued
towards
the
dead
.
A
thing
so
much
the
more
to
be
esteemed
in
that
it
is
most
rare
.
Do
not
sweete
Lord
any
longer
delay
her
.
Behold
she
hath
attended
thee
these
three
dayes
,
and
she
hath
not
what
to
eate
,
nor
wherewith
to
foster
her
famished
soule
,
vnlesse
thou
by
discouering
thy selfe
doest
minister
vnto
her
the
bread
of
thy
body
,
and
feede
her
with
the
food
that
hath
in
it
all
taste
of
sweetnesse
.
If
therefore
thou
wilt
not
haue
her
to
faint
in
the
way
,
refresh
her
with
that
which
her
hunger
requireth
.
For
surely
she
cannot
long
enioy
the
life
of
her
soule
.
But
feare
not
Mary
,
for
thy
teares
will
obtaine
.
They
are
to
o
mighty
oratours
to
let
any
suit
fall
,
and
though
they
pleaded
at
the
most
rigorous
barre
,
yet
haue
they
so
perswading
a
silence
,
&
so
conquering
a
complaint
,
that
by
yeelding
they
ouercome
,
and
by
intreating
they
command
.
They
tie
the
tongues
of
all
accusers
,
and
soften
the
rigour
of
the
seuerest
Iudge
.
Yea
they
winne
the
inuincible
,
and
binde
the
omnipotent
.
When
they
seeme
most
pitifull
,
they
haue
great
power
,
and
being
most
forsaken
they
are
more
victorious
.
Repentant
eyes
are
the
Cellers
of
Angels
,
and
penitent
teares
their
sweetest
wines
;
which
the
sauour
of
life
perfumeth
,
the
taste
of
grace
sweeteneth
,
and
the
purest
colours
of
returning
innocencie
highly
beautifieth
.
This
deaw
of
deuotion
neuer
faileth
,
but
the
Sunne
of
iustice
draweth
it
vp
,
and
vpon
what
face
soeuer
it
droppeth
,
it
maketh
it
amiable
in
Gods
eye
.
For
this
water
hath
thy
heart
bene
long
a
limbecke
,
sometimes
distilling
it
out
of
the
weedes
of
thy
owne
offences
with
the
fire
of
true
contrition
.
Sometimes
out
of
the
flowers
of
spirituall
comforts
,
with
the
flames
of
contemplation
,
and
now
out
of
the
bitter
hearbes
of
thy
maisters
miseries
,
with
the
heat
of
a
tender
compassion
.
This
water
hath
better
graced
thy
lookes
,
than
thy
former
alluring
glances
.
It
hath
setled
worthier
beauties
in
thy
face
,
than
all
thy
artificiall
paintings
.
Yea
this
onely
water
hath
quenched
Gods
anger
,
qualified
his
iustice
,
recouered
his
mercy
,
merited
his
loue
purchased
his
pardon
,
and
brought
forth
the
spring
of
all
thy
fauours
.
Thy
teares
were
the
procters
for
thy
brothers
life
,
the
inuiters
of
those
Angels
for
thy
comfort
,
and
the
suters
that
shall
be
rewarded
with
the
first
sight
of
thy
reuiued
Sauiour
.
Rewarded
they
shall
be
,
but
not
refrained
,
altered
in
their
cause
,
but
their
course
continued
.
Heauen
would
weepe
at
the
losse
of
so
precious
a
water
,
and
earth
lament
the
absence
of
so
fruitfull
showers
.
No
,
no
,
the
Angels
must
still
bath
themselues
in
the
pure
streames
of
thine
eyes
,
and
thy
face
shall
still
be
set
with
this
liquid
pearle
,
that
as
out
of
thy
teares
,
were
stroken
the
first
sparkes
of
thy
Lords
loue
,
so
thy
teares
may
be
the
oyle
to
nourish
and
feede
his
fame
.
Till
death
dam
vp
the
springs
,
they
shall
neuer
ceasse
running
:
and
then
shall
thy
soule
be
ferried
in
them
to
the
harbour
of
life
,
that
as
by
them
it
was
first
passed
from
sinne
to
grace
,
so
in
them
it
may
be
wasted
from
grace
to
glorie
.
In
the
meane
time
reare
vp
thy
fallen
hopes
,
and
gather
confidence
both
of
thy
speedy
comfort
,
and
thy
Lords
well
being
Iesus
saith
vnto
her
,
Marie
,
She
turning
,
saith
vnto
him
:
Rabboni
.
O
louing
maister
,
thou
diddest
onely
deferre
her
consolation
,
to
increase
it
,
that
the
delight
of
thy
presence
,
might
be
so
much
the
more
welcome
,
in
that
through
thy
long
absence
it
was
with
so
little
hope
so
much
desired
.
Thou
wert
content
she
should
lay
out
for
thee
so
many
sighes
,
teares
and
plaints
,
and
diddest
purposely
adiourne
the
date
of
her
payment
,
to
requite
the
length
of
these
delayes
,
with
a
larger
loane
of
ioy
.
It
may
be
she
knew
not
her
former
happinesse
,
till
she
was
weaned
from
it
:
nor
had
a
right
estimate
in
valuing
the
treasures
with
which
thy
presence
did
inrich
her
,
vntill
her
extreame
pouertie
taught
her
their
vnestimable
rate
.
But
now
thou
shewest
by
a
sweete
experience
,
that
though
she
payde
thee
with
the
dearest
water
of
her
eyes
,
with
her
best
breath
,
and
tenderest
loue
,
yet
small
was
the
price
that
she
bestowed
in
respect
of
the
worth
she
receiued
.
She
sought
thee
dead
,
and
imprisoned
in
a
stonie
gayle
,
and
now
she
findeth
thee
both
aliue
,
and
at
full
libertie
.
She
sought
thee
shrined
in
a
shrowd
,
more
like
a
leaper
than
thy selfe
,
left
as
the
modell
of
the
vttermost
miserie
,
and
the
onely
patterne
of
the
bitterest
vnhappinesse
;
and
now
she
findeth
thee
inuested
in
the
robes
of
glorie
,
the
president
of
the
highest
,
and
both
the
owner
and
giuer
of
all
felicitie
.
And
as
all
this
while
she
hath
sought
without
finding
,
wept
without
comfort
,
and
called
without
answers
:
so
now
thou
diddest
satisfie
her
seeking
with
thy
comming
,
her
teares
with
thy
triumph
,
and
all
her
cryes
with
this
one
word
,
Mary
.
For
when
she
heard
thee
call
her
in
thy
wonted
manner
,
and
with
thy
vsuall
voice
,
her
onely
name
issuing
from
thy
mouth
,
wrought
so
strange
an
alteration
in
her
,
as
if
she
had
bene
wholly
new
made
when
she
was
onely
named
.
For
whereas
before
the
violence
of
her
griefe
had
so
benummed
her
,
that
her
body
seemed
but
the
hearse
of
her
dead
heart
,
and
the
coffin
of
an
vnliuing
soule
,
and
her
whole
presence
but
a
representation
of
a
double
funerall
,
of
thine
and
of
her
owne
:
now
with
this
one
word
her
senses
are
restored
,
her
minde
lightened
,
her
heart
quickened
,
and
her
soule
reuiued
.
But
what
maruell
though
with
one
word
he
raise
the
dead
spirits
of
his
poore
Disciple
,
that
with
a
word
made
the
world
,
and
euen
in
this
verie
word
sheweth
an
omnipotent
power
?
Mary
she
was
called
as
well
in
her
bad
as
in
her
reformed
estate
,
and
both
her
good
and
euill
,
was
all
of
Maries
working
.
And
as
Marie
signifieth
no
lesse
what
she
was
,
than
what
she
is
:
so
is
this
one
word
,
by
his
vertue
that
speaketh
it
,
a
repetition
of
all
her
miseries
,
an
Epitome
of
his
mercies
,
and
a
memorial
of
all
her
better
fortunes
.
And
therefore
it
layd
so
generall
a
discouerie
of
her selfe
before
her
eyes
,
that
it
awaked
her
most
forgotten
sorrowes
,
and
mustered
together
the
whole
multitude
of
her
ioyes
,
and
would
haue
left
the
issue
of
their
mutinie
very
doubtfull
,
but
that
the
presence
and
notice
of
her
highest
happinesse
decided
the
quarrell
,
and
gaue
her
ioyes
the
victory
.
For
as
he
was
her
onely
Sunne
,
whose
going
downe
left
nothing
but
a
dumpish
night
of
fearefull
fansies
,
wherein
no
starre
of
hope
shined
,
and
the
brightest
planets
were
changed
into
dismall
signes
:
so
the
serenity
of
his
countenance
,
and
authority
of
his
word
,
brought
a
calme
and
well
tempered
day
,
that
chasing
away
all
darknesse
,
and
dispercing
the
clouds
of
melancholy
,
cured
the
lethargy
and
brake
the
dead
sleepe
of
her
astonied
senses
.
She
therefore
rauished
with
his
voice
,
and
impatient
of
delayes
,
taketh
his
talke
out
of
his
mouth
,
and
to
his
first
and
yet
onely
word
answered
but
one
other
,
calling
him
Rabboni
,
that
is
,
Maister
.
And
then
suddaine
ioy
rowsing
all
other
passions
,
she
could
no
more
proceede
in
her
owne
,
than
giue
him
leaue
to
go
forward
with
his
speech
.
Loue
would
haue
spoken
,
but
feare
enforced
silence
.
Hope
frameth
the
words
,
but
doubt
melteth
them
in
the
passage
:
and
when
her
inward
conceites
serued
to
come
out
,
her
voice
trembled
,
her
tongue
faltered
,
her
breath
failed
.
In
fine
,
teares
issued
in
liew
of
words
,
and
deepe
sighes
in
stead
of
long
sentences
,
the
eyes
supplying
the
tongues
default
,
and
the
heart
pressing
out
the
vnsillabled
breath
at
once
,
which
the
conflict
of
her
disagreeing
passions
would
not
suffer
to
be
sorted
into
the
seuerall
sounds
of
intelligible
speeches
.
For
such
is
their
estate
that
are
sicke
with
a
surfet
of
sodaine
ioy
,
for
the
attaining
of
a
thing
vehemently
desired
.
For
as
desire
is
euer
vshered
by
hope
,
and
wayted
on
by
feare
,
so
is
it
credulous
in
entertaining
coniectures
,
but
hard
in
gronnding
a
firme
beleefe
.
And
though
it
be
apt
to
admit
the
least
shadow
of
wished
comfort
,
yet
the
hotter
the
desire
is
to
haue
it
,
the
more
perfect
assurance
it
requireth
for
it
:
which
so
long
as
it
wanteth
the
first
newes
or
apparence
of
that
which
is
in
request
,
is
rather
an
alarum
to
summon
vp
all
passions
,
than
retreit
to
quiet
the
desire
.
For
as
hope
presumeth
the
best
,
and
inuiteth
ioy
to
gratulate
the
good
successe
:
so
feare
suspecteth
it
too
good
to
be
true
,
and
calleth
vp
sorrow
to
bewaile
the
vncertaintie
.
And
while
these
enterchange
obiections
and
answers
,
sometimes
feare
falleth
into
despaire
,
and
hope
riseth
into
repining
anger
;
and
thus
the
skirmish
stil
continueth
,
til
euidence
of
proofe
conclude
the
controuersie
.
Marie
therefore
though
she
suddainly
answered
vpon
notice
of
his
voice
,
yet
because
the
noueltie
was
so
strange
,
his
person
so
changed
,
his
presence
so
vnexpected
,
and
so
many
miracles
layd
at
once
before
her
amazed
eyes
,
she
found
a
sedition
in
her
thoughts
;
til
more
earnest
viewing
him
exempted
them
from
all
doubt
.
And
then
though
words
would
haue
broken
out
,
and
her
heart
sent
into
his
duties
that
she
ought
him
,
yea
,
euery
thought
striuing
to
be
first
vttered
,
and
to
haue
the
first
roome
in
his
gracious
hearing
,
she
was
forced
as
an
indifferent
arbitrer
among
them
,
to
seale
them
vp
all
vnder
silence
by
suppressing
speech
,
and
to
supply
the
want
of
words
,
with
more
significant
actions
.
And
therefore
running
to
the
haunt
of
her
chiefest
delights
,
and
falling
at
his
sacred
feete
,
she
offered
to
bath
them
with
teares
of
ioy
,
and
to
sanctifie
her
lippes
with
kissing
his
once
grieuous
but
now
most
glorious
wounds
.
She
stayed
not
for
any
more
words
,
being
now
made
blessed
with
the
Word
himselfe
,
thinking
it
a
greater
benefit
at
once
to
feede
all
her
wishes
,
in
the
homage
,
honour
,
and
embracing
of
his
feete
,
then
in
the
often
hearing
of
his
lesse
comfortable
talke
.
For
as
the
nature
of
loue
coueteth
not
onely
to
be
vnited
,
but
if
it
were
possible
wholly
transformed
out
of
it selfe
into
the
thing
it
loueth
:
so
doth
it
most
affect
that
which
most
vniteth
,
and
preferreth
the
least
coniunction
before
any
distant
contentment
.
And
therfore
to
see
him
did
not
suffice
her
;
to
heare
him
did
not
quiet
her
;
to
speake
with
him
was
not
enough
for
her
;
and
except
she
might
touch
him
,
nothing
could
please
her
.
But
though
she
humbly
fell
downe
at
his
feete
to
kisse
them
,
yet
Christ
did
forbid
her
,
saying
:
Do
not
touch
me
,
for
I
am
not
yet
ascended
to
my
Father
.
O
Iesu
,
what
mysterie
is
in
this
?
Being
dead
in
sinne
,
she
touched
thy
mortall
feete
that
were
to
dye
for
her
sake
,
and
being
now
aliue
in
grace
,
may
she
not
touch
thy
glorious
feete
,
that
are
no
lesse
for
her
benefit
reuiued
?
She
was
once
admitted
to
annoint
thy
head
,
and
is
she
now
vnworthy
of
accesse
to
thy
feete
?
Doest
thou
now
command
her
from
that
for
which
thou
wert
wont
to
commend
her
,
and
by
praysing
the
deed
didst
moue
her
often
to
do
it
?
Sith
other
women
shall
touch
thee
,
why
hath
she
a
repulse
?
yea
sith
she
her selfe
shall
touch
thee
hereafter
,
why
is
she
now
reiected
?
What
meanest
thou
,
O
Lord
,
by
thus
debarring
her
of
so
desired
a
duty
?
and
sith
among
all
thy
Disciples
thou
hast
vouchsafed
her
such
a
prerogatiue
,
as
to
honour
her
eyes
with
thy
first
sight
,
and
her
eares
with
thy
first
wo●ds
▪
why
deniest
thou
the
priuiledge
of
thy
first
embracing
?
If
the
multitude
of
her
teares
haue
won
that
fauour
for
her
eyes
,
and
her
longing
to
heare
thee
,
so
great
a
recompence
to
her
eares
,
why
doest
thou
not
admit
her
hands
to
touch
,
and
her
mouth
to
kisse
thy
holy
feete
,
sith
the
one
with
many
plaints
,
and
the
other
with
their
readinesse
to
all
seruices
,
seemed
to
haue
earned
no
lesse
reward
?
But
notwithstanding
all
this
,
thou
preuentest
the
effect
of
her
offer
,
with
forbidding
her
to
touch
thee
,
as
if
thou
haddest
said
:
O
Mary
,
know
the
difference
betweene
a
glorious
and
a
mortall
body
,
betweene
the
condition
of
a
momentary
and
of
an
eternall
life
.
For
sith
the
immortalitie
of
the
body
and
the
glory
both
of
body
and
soule
are
the
endowments
of
an
heauenly
inhabitant
,
and
the
rights
of
another
world
,
thinke
not
this
fauour
to
seeme
here
ordinarie
,
nor
leaue
to
touch
me
a
common
thing
.
It
were
not
so
great
a
wonder
to
see
the
starres
fall
from
their
Spheares
,
and
the
Sunne
forsake
Heauen
,
and
to
come
within
the
reach
of
a
mortall
arme
,
as
for
me
that
am
not
onely
a
Citizen
,
but
the
Soueraigne
of
Saints
,
and
the
Sunne
whose
beames
are
the
Angels
blisse
,
to
shew
my selfe
visible
to
the
Pilgrims
of
this
world
,
and
to
display
eternall
beauties
to
corruptible
eyes
.
Though
I
be
not
yet
ascended
to
my
Father
,
I
shall
shortly
ascend
,
and
therefore
measure
not
thy
demeanour
towards
me
by
the
place
where
I
am
,
but
by
that
which
is
due
vnto
me
:
and
then
thou
wilt
rather
with
reuerence
fall
down
a
farre
off
,
than
with
such
familiaritie
presume
to
touch
me
.
Doest
thou
not
beleeue
my
former
promises
?
Hast
thou
not
a
constant
proofe
by
my
present
words
?
Are
not
thine
eyes
and
eares
sufficient
testimonies
,
but
that
thou
must
also
haue
thy
hands
and
face
witnesses
of
my
presence
?
Touch
me
not
,
ô
Mary
,
for
if
I
do
deceiue
thy
sight
,
or
delude
thy
hearing
,
I
can
as
easily
beguile
thy
hand
,
and
frustrate
thy
feeling
.
Or
if
I
be
true
in
any
one
,
beleeue
me
in
all
,
and
embrace
me
first
in
a
firme
faith
,
and
then
thou
shalt
touch
me
with
more
worthy
hands
.
It
is
now
necessarie
to
weane
thee
from
the
comfort
of
my
externall
presence
,
that
thou
mayst
learne
to
lodge
me
in
the
secrets
of
thy
heart
,
and
teach
thy
thoughts
to
supply
the
offices
of
outward
senses
.
For
in
this
visible
shape
I
am
not
here
long
to
be
seene
,
being
shortly
to
ascend
vnto
my
Father
:
but
what
thine
eye
then
seeth
not
,
thy
heart
shall
feele
,
and
my
silent
parley
will
find
audience
in
thy
inward
eare
.
Yet
if
thou
fearest
lest
my
ascending
should
be
so
sudden
,
that
if
thou
doest
not
now
take
thy
leaue
of
my
feete
with
thy
humble
kisses
&
louing
teares
,
thou
shalt
neuer
find
the
like
oportunitie
againe
,
licence
from
thee
that
needlesse
suspition
.
I
am
not
yet
ascended
vnto
my
Father
,
&
for
al
such
duties
,
there
will
be
a
more
conuenient
time
.
But
now
go
about
that
which
requireth
more
hast
,
and
run
to
my
brethren
&
informe
them
what
I
say
,
That
I
will
go
before
them
into
Galilee
,
there
shall
they
see
me
.
Mary
therefore
preferring
her
Lords
will
before
her
owne
wish
,
yet
sorrie
that
her
will
was
worthy
of
no
better
euent
,
departed
from
him
like
an
hungrie
Infant
pulled
from
a
full
teate
,
or
a
thirstie
Hart
chased
from
a
sweete
fountaine
.
She
iudged
her selfe
but
an
vnluckie
messenger
of
most
ioyfull
tidings
,
being
banished
from
her
maisters
presence
,
to
carrie
newes
of
his
resurrection
.
Alas
(
saith
she
)
and
cannot
others
be
happy
without
my
vnhappinesse
?
or
cannot
their
gaines
come
in
,
but
through
my
losse
?
Must
the
dawning
of
their
day
,
be
the
euening
of
mine
,
and
my
soule
robbed
of
such
a
treasure
to
enrich
their
eares
?
O
my
heart
returne
thou
to
enioy
him
:
why
goest
thou
with
me
that
am
enforced
to
go
from
him
?
In
me
thou
art
but
in
prison
,
and
in
him
is
thy
onely
Paradise
I
haue
buried
thee
long
enough
in
former
sorrowes
,
and
yet
now
when
thou
wert
halfe
reuiued
,
I
am
constrained
to
carrie
thee
from
the
spring
of
life
.
Alas
,
go
seeke
to
better
thy
life
in
some
more
happy
breast
,
sith
I
,
euill
deseruing
creature
,
am
nothing
different
from
that
I
was
,
but
in
hauing
taken
a
taste
of
the
highest
delight
,
that
the
knowledge
and
want
of
it
might
drowne
me
in
the
deepest
miserie
.
Thus
dutie
leading
,
and
loue
with-holding
her
,
she
goeth
as
fast
backward
in
thought
,
as
forward
in
pace
,
readie
eftsoones
to
faint
for
griefe
,
but
that
a
firme
hope
to
see
him
againe
,
did
support
her
weakenesse
.
She
often
turned
towards
the
Tombe
to
breathe
,
deeming
the
very
ayre
that
came
from
the
place
where
he
stood
,
to
haue
taken
vertue
of
his
presence
,
and
to
haue
in
it
a
refreshing
force
aboue
the
course
of
nature
.
Sometimes
she
forgetteth
her selfe
,
and
loue
carrieth
her
in
a
golden
distraction
,
making
her
to
imagine
that
her
Lord
is
present
,
and
then
she
seemeth
to
demand
him
questions
,
and
to
heare
his
answers
:
she
dreameth
that
his
feete
are
in
her
folded
armes
,
and
that
he
giueth
her
soule
a
full
repast
of
his
comforts
.
But
alas
when
she
cometh
to
herselfe
,
and
findeth
it
but
an
illusion
,
she
is
so
much
the
more
sorrie
,
in
that
the
onely
imagination
being
so
delightfull
,
she
was
not
worthy
to
enioy
the
thing
it selfe
.
And
when
she
passeth
by
those
places
where
her
Maister
had
bene
:
O
stones
(
saith
she
)
how
much
more
happy
are
you
than
I
,
most
wretched
caitiffe
,
sith
to
you
was
not
denied
the
touch
of
those
blessed
feete
,
whereof
my
euill
deserts
haue
now
made
me
vnworthy
?
Alas
what
crime
haue
I
of
late
committed
,
that
hath
thus
cancelled
mee
out
of
his
good
conceit
,
and
estranged
mee
from
his
accustomed
curtesie
?
Had
I
but
a
lease
of
his
loue
for
terme
of
his
life
?
or
did
my
interest
in
his
feete
expire
with
his
deceasse
?
In
them
with
my
teares
I
writ
my
first
supplication
for
mercie
,
which
I
pointed
with
sighes
,
folded
vp
in
my
haire
,
and
humbly
sealed
with
the
impression
of
my
lips
.
They
were
the
dores
of
my
first
entrance
into
his
fauour
,
by
which
I
was
graciously
entertained
in
his
,
heart
,
and
admitted
to
do
homage
vnto
his
head
,
while
it
was
yet
a
mortall
mirrour
of
immortall
maiestie
,
an
earthly
seat
of
an
heauenly
wisedome
,
containing
in
man
a
Gods
felicitie
.
But
alas
,
I
must
be
contented
to
beare
a
lower
saile
,
and
to
take
downe
my
desires
to
farre
meaner
hopes
,
sith
former
fauours
are
now
too
high
markes
for
me
to
ayme
at
.
O
mine
eyes
,
why
are
you
so
ambitious
of
heauenly
honours
?
He
is
now
too
bright
a
Sunne
for
so
weake
a
sight
:
your
lookes
are
limited
to
meaner
light
;
you
are
the
eyes
of
a
Bat
,
and
not
of
an
Eagle
;
you
must
humble
your selues
to
the
twilight
of
inferiour
things
,
and
measure
your
sights
by
your
slender
substance
.
Gaze
not
too
much
vpon
the
blaze
of
eternitie
,
lest
you
lose
your selues
in
too
much
selfe
delight
,
and
being
too
curious
in
sifting
his
maiestie
,
you
be
in
the
end
oppressed
with
his
glorie
.
No
,
no
,
sith
I
am
reiected
from
his
feete
,
how
can
I
otherwise
presume
,
but
that
my
want
of
faith
hath
dislodged
me
out
of
his
heart
,
and
throwne
me
out
of
all
possession
of
his
minde
and
memorie
.
Yet
why
should
I
stoope
to
so
base
a
feare
?
when
want
of
faith
was
aggrieued
with
want
of
all
goodnesse
,
he
disdained
not
to
accept
me
for
one
of
his
number
:
and
shall
I
now
thinke
that
he
will
for
my
faint
beleefe
so
rigorously
abandon
me
?
And
is
the
sinceritie
of
my
loue
,
wherein
he
hath
no
partner
,
of
so
slender
account
,
that
it
may
not
hope
for
some
little
sparke
of
his
wonted
mercie
?
I
will
not
wrong
him
with
so
vniust
a
suspition
,
sith
his
appearing
improueth
it
,
his
words
ouerthrow
it
,
his
countenance
doth
disswade
it
,
why
then
should
I
sucke
so
much
sorrow
out
of
so
vaine
a
surmise
?
Thus
Maries
trauelling
fansies
,
making
long
voyages
in
this
short
iourney
,
and
wauering
betweene
the
ioy
of
her
vision
,
and
the
griefe
of
her
deniall
entertained
her
in
the
way
,
and
held
her
parley
with
such
discourses
as
are
incident
vnto
minds
,
in
which
neither
hope
is
full
maister
of
the
field
,
nor
feare
hath
receiued
an
vtter
ouerthrow
.
But
as
she
was
in
this
perplexed
manner
,
now
falling
,
now
rising
in
her
owne
vncertainties
,
she
findeth
on
the
way
the
other
holy
woman
that
first
came
with
her
to
the
graue
,
whom
the
Angels
had
now
assured
of
Christs
resurection
.
And
as
they
passed
all
forwards
towards
the
Disciples
:
Behold
Iesus
met
them
saying
,
All
haile
.
But
they
came
neere
,
and
tooke
hold
of
his
feete
,
and
worshipped
him
.
Then
Iesus
said
vnto
them
,
Feare
not
:
Go
●●l
my
brethren
that
they
go
into
Gallilee
,
there
they
shall
see
me
.
O
Lord
how
profound
are
thy
iudgements
,
and
vnsearchable
thy
counsels
?
Doth
her
sorrow
sit
so
neare
thy
heart
,
or
thy
repulse
rebound
with
such
regret
by
seeing
her
wounded
loue
bleede
so
fast
at
her
eyes
,
that
thy
late
refusall
must
so
soone
be
requited
with
so
free
a
graunt
?
Is
it
thy
pitty
,
or
her
change
,
which
cannot
allow
that
she
should
any
longer
fast
from
her
earnest
longing
?
But
ô
most
milde
Phisition
,
well
knowest
thou
that
thy
sharp
corrosiue
with
bitter
smart
angred
her
tender
wound
,
which
being
rather
caused
by
vnwitting
ignorance
than
wilfull
errour
,
was
as
soone
cured
as
knowne
.
And
therefore
thou
quickely
applyest
a
sweete
lenitiue
to
asswage
her
paine
,
that
she
might
acknowledge
her
forbidding
,
rather
a
fatherly
checke
to
her
vnsetled
faith
,
than
an
austere
reiecting
her
for
her
fault
:
and
therefore
thou
admittest
her
to
kisse
thy
feete
,
the
two
conduits
of
grace
,
and
seales
of
our
redemption
,
renewing
her
a
Charter
of
thy
vnchanged
loue
,
and
accepting
of
her
the
vowed
sacrifice
of
her
sanctified
soule
.
And
thus
gracious
Lord
hast
thou
finished
her
seares
,
assured
her
hopes
,
fulfilled
her
desires
,
satisfied
her
loues
,
stinted
her
teares
,
perfected
her
ioyes
,
and
made
the
period
of
her
expiring
griefes
,
the
preamble
to
her
now
entring
,
and
neuer
ending
pleasures
.
O
how
mercifull
a
Father
thou
art
to
left
Orphanes
,
how
easie
a
Iudge
to
repentant
sinners
,
and
how
faithfull
a
friend
to
sincere
louers
!
It
is
vndoubtedly
true
,
that
thou
neuer
leauest
those
that
loue
thee
,
and
thou
louest
such
as
rest
their
affiance
in
thee
.
They
shall
finde
thee
liberall
aboue
desert
,
and
bountifull
beyond
hope
:
a
measure
of
thy
gifts
,
not
by
their
merits
but
thine
owne
mercie
.
O
Christian
soule
,
take
Mary
for
thy
mirrour
,
follow
her
affection
,
that
like
effects
may
follow
thine
.
Learne
ô
sinfull
man
of
this
once
a
sinfull
woman
;
that
sinners
may
finde
Christ
if
their
sinnes
be
amended
.
Learne
that
whom
sinne
loseth
,
loue
recouereth
,
whom
faintnesse
of
faith
chaseth
away
,
firmnesse
of
hope
recalleth
;
and
that
which
no
other
mortall
force
,
fauour
or
pollicie
can
compasse
,
the
continued
teares
of
a
constant
loue
are
able
to
attaine
.
Learne
of
Mary
,
for
Christ
to
feare
no
encounters
▪
out
of
Christ
to
desire
no
comforts
,
and
with
the
loue
of
Christ
to
ouer-rule
the
loue
of
all
things
R●se
early
in
the
morning
of
thy
good
motions
,
and
let
them
not
sleepe
in
sloth
,
when
diligence
may
performe
them
.
Runne
with
repentance
to
thy
sinfull
heart
which
should
haue
bene
the
Temple
,
but
through
thy
fault
was
no
better
than
a
Tombe
for
Christ
,
sith
hauing
in
thee
no
life
to
feele
him
,
he
seemed
vnto
thee
as
if
he
had
bene
dead
.
Role
away
the
stone
of
thy
former
hardnesse
,
remoue
all
thy
heauy
loads
that
oppresse
thee
in
sinne
,
and
looke
into
thy
soule
,
whether
thou
canst
there
find
the
Lord
.
If
he
be
not
within
thee
,
stand
weeping
without
,
and
seeke
him
in
other
creatures
,
sith
being
present
in
all
,
he
may
be
found
in
any
.
Let
faith
be
thine
eye
hope
thy
guide
,
and
loue
thy
light
.
Seeke
him
and
not
his
:
for
himselfe
,
and
not
for
his
gifts
.
If
thy
faith
haue
found
him
in
a
cloud
,
let
thy
hope
seeke
to
him
.
If
hope
haue
led
thee
to
see
him
,
let
loue
seek
further
into
him
.
To
moue
in
thee
a
desire
to
finde
,
his
goods
are
precious
:
and
when
he
is
found
,
to
keepe
thee
in
a
desire
to
seeke
,
his
treasures
are
infinit
.
Absent
,
he
must
be
sought
to
be
had
;
being
had
,
he
must
be
sought
to
be
more
enioyed
.
Seeke
him
truly
,
and
no
other
for
him
.
Seeke
him
purely
,
and
no
other
thing
with
him
.
Seeke
him
onely
,
and
nothing
besides
him
.
And
if
at
the
first
search
he
appeare
not
,
thinke
it
not
much
to
perseuer
in
teares
,
and
to
continue
thy
seeking
.
Stand
vpon
the
earth
,
trending
vnder
thee
all
earthly
vanities
,
and
touching
them
with
no
more
than
the
soles
of
thy
feete
,
that
is
with
the
lowest
and
least
part
of
thy
affection
.
To
looke
the
better
in
the
Tombe
,
bow
downe
thy
neeke
to
the
yoke
of
humilitie
,
and
stoupe
from
loftie
and
proude
conceits
,
that
with
humbled
and
lowly
lookes
thou
mayest
finde
whom
swelling
and
haughtie
thoughts
haue
driuen
away
.
A
submitted
soule
soonest
winneth
his
returne
,
and
the
deeper
it
sinketh
in
a
selfe
contempt
,
the
higher
it
climeth
in
his
highest
fauours
.
And
if
thou
perceiuest
in
the
Tombe
of
thy
heart
the
presence
of
his
two
first
Messengers
,
that
is
,
at
the
feete
,
sorrow
for
the
bad
that
is
past
,
and
at
the
head
desire
to
a
better
that
is
to
come
,
entertaine
them
with
sighes
,
and
welcome
them
with
penitent
teares
:
yet
reckoning
them
but
as
herbingers
of
thy
Lord
,
ceasse
not
thy
seeking
till
thou
findest
himselfe
.
And
if
he
vouchsafe
thee
his
glorious
sight
,
offering
himselfe
to
thy
inward
eyes
,
presume
not
of
thy selfe
to
be
able
to
know
him
,
but
as
his
vnworthy
suppliant
prostrate
thy
petitions
vnto
him
▪
that
thou
maist
truely
discerne
him
,
and
faithfully
serue
him
.
Thus
preparing
thee
with
diligence
,
comming
with
speed
,
standing
with
high
lifted
hopes
,
and
stooping
with
inclined
heart
,
if
with
Mary
thou
crauest
no
other
solace
of
Iesus
but
Iesus
himselfe
,
he
will
answere
thy
teares
with
his
presence
,
and
assure
thee
of
his
presence
with
his
owne
words
,
that
hauing
seene
him
thy selfe
,
thou
maiest
make
him
knowne
to
others
:
saying
with
Mary
,
I
haue
seene
our
Lord
,
and
these
things
he
said
vnto
me
.
LAVS
DEO
.
FINIS
.