COMPLINE. The Versicle. Lord by thy sweet & saving SIGN, Defend us from our foes & thine. V. Thou shalt open. R. And my mouth. V. O GOD make speed. R. O LORD make hast. R. As it was in THE HIMN. He Complin hour comes last, to call TU Ah hartlesse task! yet hope takes head; And lives in Him that here lyes dead. Run, MARY, run! Bring hither all the BLEST ARABIA, for thy Royall Phoenix'nest; Pour on thy noblest sweets, Which, when they touch But must thy bed, lord, be a borow'd grave Who lend'st to all things All the LIFE they have. O rather use this HEART, thus farr a fitter STONE, 'Cause, though a hard & cold one, yet it is thine owne. Amen. The Antiphona. O save us then Mercyfull KING of men! Since thou wouldst needs be thus A SAVIOUR, & at such à rate, for us; We now will own no shorter wish, nor name a narrower word. Thy Wounds give us fair hold. Thy Crosse, thy Nature, & thy name And cry with one accord Save them, o save them, lord. THE RECOMMENDATION. Hese Houres, & that which hover's o're my End, TH Take Both to Thine Account, that I & mine That as I dedicate my devoutest BREATH So from his living, & life-giving DEATH, My dying LIFE may draw a new, & never fleeting BREATH. UPON THE H. SEPULCHER. Here where our LORD once lay'd his Head, L VEXILLA REGIS, THE HYMN OF THE HOLY CROSSE. I. Ook up, languisting Soul! Lo where the fair Thy life is one long Debt Of love to Him, who on this painfull TREE II. Lo, how the streames of life, from that full nest Of loves, thy lord's too liberall brest, Flow in an amorous floud Of WATER Wedding BLOOD. With these he wash't thy stain, transfer'd thy smart, And took it home to his own heart. III. But though great Love, greedy of such sad gain Usurp't the Portion of THY pain, And from the nailes & spear Turn'd the steel point of fear, Their use is chang'd, not lost; and now they move. Not stings of w[ra]th, but wounds of love. IV. Tall TREE of life! thy truth makes good What was till now ne're understood, Though the prophetick king Struck lowd his faithfull string. It was thy wood he meant should make the T[HR]ONE For a more then SALOMON. V. Larg throne of love! Royally spred With purple of too Rich a red. Thy crime is too much duty; Thy Burthen, too much beauty; Glorious, or Greivous more? thus to make good Thy costly excellence with thy KING'S Own BLOOD. VI. Even ballance of both worlds! our world of sin, Soon as the right-hand scale rejoyc't to prove VII. Hail, our alone hope! let thy fair head shoot Aloft; and fill the nations with thy noble fruit. The while our hearts & we Thus graft our selves on thee; Grow thou & they. And be thy fair increase Live, o for ever live & reign The LAMB whom his own love hath slain! That KINGDOM which this CROSSE did merit. |