Ev'ry day and ev'ry hour,
Suppliant mind and voice of power,
For thy patroness avow her,
Be her offices implored.

Certain hope of all the wretched,
Mother of each child distressed,
And relief of the oppressed,

Thou to all dost all afford.
Thee we sighing ask, thou kind one!
Let thy guidance help each blind one.
O thy light be always giving,
That at last we may be living
With the saints eternally.

P. 237, line 42. Without thy succour I was lost,

Thus said she then, O heav'nly Queen:
Of mortals none my path had cross'd,
But thee with prayer I did accost,
And favourable issue gain.

And I, inspired with ardour new,
In mem❜ry of this benefit,

Will ev'ry month, with honour due,
Here, where thy chapel meets my view,
With gift of heart thy love requite.
31. To rest in it.

32. To suffer with it.

239,

240,

241,

14. Our Father ** Who art in heaven.

15. Hallowed be thy name * * Thy will be done.

29. Heaven smiles, the angels rejoice, the world exults, when we say Hail, Mary.

242, 14. Of the mass.

243,

244,

245,

247,

21. The whole salvation of man is placed in the death

of Christ.

21. Entering the house, they found the Boy with Mary His mother.

3. Woman, behold thy son.

9. Enmities will I place between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed.

2. May I preach thee while thou art to be preached, love thee while thou art to be loved, praise thee while thou art to be praised, serve thee while service can be paid thy glory!

16. The flesh of Christ, the flesh of Mary.

17. He drew His flesh from no other source than His

mother's flesh.

1. If these concordant thou knowest not, from concord of truth thou thyself art banished. If these discordant thou pratest, always discordant from justice wilt thou have been found.

31. Whence now come with me to this virgin, lest without her thou hasten to Gehenna.

P. 248, line 40. O how holy, full of pleasure,

How benignant, what a treasure,

Is the Maid believed to be !
Thro' whom slavery is ended,
And from heav'n, no more offended,
We regain our liberty.

Of chastity the lily thou,

Implore thy Son, t' whom all things bow,
And who's the raiser of the low,

That He will spare our many a fault,
Nor in the judgment's dire assault
Subject us to hell's gloomy vault,——
But us by thy holy prayer
Cleansing from sin's filthy layer,
Place in house of light together:
Each man say Amen for ever.

20. Pity me for her prayers.

25. Praise the Lord in his saints.

34. Because from thee is risen the Sun of justice, Christ our God.

7. O mother, snowy modesty's pure flow'r!

O would that my mind with thine odour breathed! 12. As breathing not only is a sign of life, but also a cause; so Mary's name, which in the mouth of God's servants is current, is at once an argument that they live, and also procures and preserves this life.

44. Thou hast held my right hand, and in Thy will hast
led me, and with glory hast received me.
41. Thanks to thee we give, Lord God Almighty, who
art, and who wast, who hast received virtue, and
hast reigned for ages of ages.

8. Eve had believed the serpent; Mary believed
Gabriel: what the former by believing committed,
the latter by believing blotted out.

15. The woman whom Thou hast given me.
Crime of Eva

37.

Us did leave a

Sentence of exclusion dire:

Mary paying

Faith, obeying,

Opens heaven's gates entire.

258, 4. Heav'n and earth their voice upraising,

No man silent be in praising;
Unto his ancient origin

Man thro' the Virgin comes again:
She her God in womb hath cherish'd,
Whence the quarrel old hath perish'd :
Hath perish'd the old discord now;
And peace succeeds, and glory too.

P. 260, line 12. O human heart, cease not to bless
Th' infinite and true clemency
Of the adored Trinity,

And her in whom without distress
The Son God took humanity.

O human heart, cease not to bless
Th' infinite and true clemency
By which thou hast such nobleness,
With God thou hast fraternity:
O then, for this affinity,

Thou human heart, cease not to bless

Th' infinite and true clemency

Of the adored Trinity.

32. And upon the Son of Man, whom Thou hast confirmed for Thyself.

262, 4. Go to my brethren.

20. But let him cease, that all alike be pleased.

33. From the prince to the mob, from the people to the officer of customs.

1. Jesus, those whom now Thou leadest

'Neath the veil, and there them feedest,
With Thy count'nance satisfy :

With the Father coëternal
Brightness, bring us to paternal
Clarity's delights on high.

17. Alphonso, eighth king of the name,
With great amount of chivalry.

27. Whate'er the meaner multitude

Has ruled and uses, this to thee I 'ld say.

30. I also indeed to this extent agree with the many.
36. With pleasure in the place of a plain and humble
man Amen will we answer.

- last line.

You reckon me also with the vulgar :-hold thou for most certain, let my friends and the Church of Christ undoubtingly believe, that even if authority were wanting to me, and reason, to defend my faith, I would yet rather with the vulgar be a Catholic rustic and plain humble man than with thee exist as a courtier and witty heretic.

P. 267, line 15.

CHAPTER X.

THE ROAD OF CHURCHES.

Shadowy with thick beams and an ancient grove.
43. What dost thou, sacred, 'mong the clouds of heav'n?
So far from earth why hold'st thy signals thus ?
Art thou a key, as bards thy name have giv'n,
Of strength to ope celestial doors to us?

270, 16. Saint John of the Kings.

271,

272,

273,

276, 279,

280,

281,

282,

41. Forgiving the sins of all, taking away the infirmi-
ties of all, and driving away the incentives to
inherent evil pleasures by the suffering of His
body, according to the sayings of the prophets,
absorbing the infirmities of human instability.
35. Which was not without the people's dislike.
42. Forsooth that the rarity of entering might cause
faith to be forgotten.

12. Peace eternal from th' Eternal to this house! peace
perpetual, Word of Father, be peace to this
house peace may He, the kind Consoler, ever
on this house bestow!

31. God's temples I revered of old stone built.

3. Signs thee I'll tell thou hold them stored in mind. 21. For it is not ours to affect diligence in superfluities. 19. Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house.

4. What the prophets about Christ and the Church of the Lord foretold, this the Evangelists writing the evangel have fully explained.

15. The decency of walls.

17. The building with paintings he famously adorned. 37. Our statues make no difficulties, no

Snares painting brings: now they are harmless signs:
They 're virtue's witnesses, records of praise,
These marbles, deathless glories of eternal fame.
3. The essence of things remaining safe and sound.
9. Anathema to those who call sacred images idols, to
those who twist to holy images sentences out of
Scripture against idols, and who dare to say that
the Holy Catholic Church has ever received idols.
34. And what demerit had I

Between the robbers pendant?
In vain in anguish pray'd I
'Gainst flesh's woes ascendant.
Death's chalice I exhausted,
While still my passion lasted
On my Sire's will attendant.

Unmurm'ring, then, content thee
Tho' thy request thou gain not;
Nor let it e'er repent thee
If thou thy prayer obtain not.
To greater boon and honour
Thou now hast bound the Donor
If thou thy prayer restrain not.
To me if now thou raise thine eye
Thou seest for silver vended,
Deliver❜d by a kiss to die

And rudely apprehended:

Nay, with the cords my limbs were bound,
Scourges made me all one wound;

And as a man despair'd-of

I was before the pontiffs found

And charged with crimes unheard-of.
By those whom I more strongly loved,
I tell thee, I was disapproved,
And bound for things unheard-of.
Their clamour and derision,
And threatenings severest,-
All with impunity they do,
And, whatsoe'er to me they do,
But little it appeareth.

With dire reproaches now imbued,
Brought to Pilate's station,-
Th' injurious charges all renew'd,
They rush to accusation;

And now a murderer they free
From righteous condemnation.
There nought availeth verity
Or right, my foes assailing;
But envious and madden'd cry
With insult is prevailing :
No guards the president affords,
No care affects the courtier-lords
To help the just when failing.
As slave to lowest lot reduced,
To Herod I'm presented :
Soon in the middle I'm produced,
And mock'd as one insensate :
At length to Pontius back sent,
By dreadful cross's punishment
I must for sin compensate.
Without the walls rejected,
I myself the cross am bearing,
And while my mother standeth by
Am stripp'd of what I'm wearing.

At length I thro' am pierced with nails:
On the cross me death assails:

BOOK II.-SECOND EDIT.