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¶A metricall declaration of the .vij. petitions of the pater-noster. | |
Luce .xi. when ye pray, saye. Our father whiche arte in heuen. &c. | |
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THough I be wyllynge and feruent of desyre | |
Yet for vnkonnynge I dare not me auaunce | |
Of the heuenly misteryes though ye wold requyre | |
Of the pater-noster to declare in substaunce | |
5 | Recordyd in scrypture / yf ye call to remembraunce |
This prayer exciteth crysten hartes with deuout maters | |
Onely in chryst_Iesu to fynde all suffysaunce | |
As therin is taught by the .vii. prayers | |
¶Groundely and bryefely also comprehendyd | |
10 | Whyle he was here / of trouth it is thus falle |
Taught his dyscyples / which may not be amendyd | |
For it transcendeth other prayers all | |
Most auctorysed / whan we for socour call | |
Most celestyall and most of dygnite | |
15 | Crouned amonge prayers in the heuenly stall |
Yf it be sayd in perfyt cheryte cheryte: =charity | |
¶I haue no mouth / playnly to deuyse | |
Fyrst to remembre / the great dygnyte | |
Ferefull to take / on me so hygh enterpryse | |
20 | Moste celestiall / most aungelyk of degre |
For to the hygh myghty trinyte | |
It is dyrecte / lorde of most puissaunce | |
Whiche called is / one two and thre | |
All one in vertue / and all one in substaunce | |
25 | ¶This word pater sheweth in substaunce |
His myght is most greatest of excellence | |
Of heuen and erth / hath all the ordynaunce | |
Called welle of grace / myrour of sapyence | |
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Whiche to his chyldren / of fatherly prouydence | |
30 | Hath gyue a fraunchyse / aboue fraunchyses all |
That we may boldly / with deuout reuerence | |
Agayne all myschyefe / to hym for helpe call | |
¶Fyrst this worde Pater / set us in assuraunce | |
And this worde / noster / gyueth vs humblenesse | |
35 | Of hym to requyre with deuout obeysaunce |
Remedy / agayne all worldly dystresse | |
So that charyte with her suster mekenesse | |
Fayth / trust / and hope / be with them present | |
Then whan we praye / and saye of faythfulnesse | |
40 | Pater noster we shall haue our entent |
¶In this worde Pater standeth all our confidence | |
Our hole beleue / whan we say Qui es | |
Our stedfast fayth / and fully our credence | |
In heuen abydynge / as souerayne lorde of peas | |
45 | Where thre iera[r]chyes / day and nyght not ses ierarchyes] ierachyes 1530 |
To crye in celis / with heuenly melodye | |
Cherubyn nor seraphyn / not slouth nor reckles | |
Synge Osanna / with feruent armonye. | |
¶Whose gloryous name / for to magnyfye | |
50 | Mouth and tonge / be lame of theyr langage |
But the holy-gost / by grace lyst vs to guye | |
Us to enspyre / in our mortall passage | |
As goostly chyldren / borne of hye lynage | |
Neuer to thyne hyghnesse / be no mortall offence | |
55 | In this dredfull perylous pylgrymage |
Tyll clere contrycion / our gyltes recompence | |
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¶We were renewed / full nye to thyne alye | |
By the holy-gostes / gracyous influence | |
Fyrst by baptyme / to begynne at that partye | |
60 | Next confermed / by thy magnyfycence |
To ben acceptyd / to thy beniuolence | |
As chose chylderne to thyne herytage | |
That we may saye / with deuout reuerence | |
Lorde haue mercy / on all our olde outrage | |
65 | ¶These .vii. peticions / be of vertue most |
Onely to god / of hole harte applyed | |
To the .vii. vertues / of the holy-gost | |
Fyrst whan we saye / this name be sanctifyed | |
Name of all names / halowed and gloryfyed | |
70 | As the gospell playnly doth commaunde |
But here my symplenesse / with Argus not clere-eyed | |
Meue this questyon / askynge this demaunde | |
¶How myght in vs be kyn[d]led suche desyre kyndled] kynled 1530 | |
Boldly to saye / conceyued our feblenesse | |
75 | Though charyte brent in vs as flame of fyre |
Lyke as in Seraphyn / brenneth all perfytnesse | |
I answere thus / a ground take of mekenesse | |
Uertue of vertues / doctours saye the same | |
Under support / of his paternall goodnesse | |
80 | To say or thynke / halowed be thy name |
¶Without addicyon to sette our harte at reste | |
That therwithall we haue this sentence | |
For our party / to conclude for our beste | |
In our inwarde / gostly intellygence | |
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85 | Fyrst that his name / name of moste excellence |
Within hym-selfe / euery houre and space | |
Be sanctifyed so / that by his prouidence | |
It maye in vs / be sanctifyed by his grace. | |
Adueniat regnum tuum. |
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¶Thy kyngdome lorde illumined with thy face | |
90 | Where is full gladnes / of all goostly lyght |
May come to vs at the tyme set and space | |
Whan thou assygnest / by thyne eternall myght | |
Of thy presence / that we maye haue a syght | |
O gracyo[u]s lorde / our tyme, so prouyde | |
95 | Claymed with mekenesse / of mercy more than ryght |
Be mene of thy passyon / that we may there abyde Be: =By | |
¶Thy kyngdome lorde fyrst in this present lyfe | |
Come to vs / to rewle vs and gouerne | |
Agayne the assawtes / and the treble stryfe | |
100 | Of our thre ennemyes / lorde holde so the lanterne |
By thy grace whiche that is eterne | |
Reygne so in vs / of reason holde so our brydell | |
Betwene good and euyll / we may so dyscerne | |
Agayne thy pleasure / to do nothynge in idell | |
105 | ¶Lorde by thy mercy / reygne in vs so here |
Of all vyces / that we maye haue vyctory | |
To clayme a tytle / aboue the sterrys clere | |
Thy passyon chyefe / set fyrst in memory | |
With the to reygne / in thyne eternall glory | |
110 | Asked by bylle wrytte / with thy precyous blood Asked ='Proclaimed'? See OED s.v. ask v, 20 |
Sheed from thy body for our carefull mysery | |
On hygh vppon the mount / at caluary on the rood | |
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Fiat voluntas tua. |
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¶So as thy wyll fulfylled is in heuen | |
Ryght so in erth / fulfylled mout it be mout: =might | |
115 | Lyke as the court / aboue the sterres seuen |
Of orders nyne / and ierarchyes thre | |
Syngynge sanctus / thryes before the trinyte | |
So make vs lorde / with deuout obseruaunce | |
Daye and nyght / knelynge on our kne | |
120 | Thy deth thy passyon to haue in remembraunce |
¶Fyrst thy preceptes / and ten comaundementes | |
We may fulfylle bytwene hope and drede | |
And forsake with all our hole ententes | |
All that sholde dysplease the in dede | |
125 | Syth to a pyller / thou lyst for vs to blede |
Therwith to do / all that thou lyste commaunde | |
Suffre thy mercy / so vppon vs sprede | |
Part to receyue / that thou gafe at thy maunde maunde: =maundy, 'the Last Supper' | |
To thy dyscyples for a memoryall | |
130 | For a perpetuall commemoracyon |
Of thy fleshe and thy blood / take in especyall | |
Of a pure mayde / thyne incarnacyon | |
Thy meke sufferaunce / for our redempcyon | |
With minde also / thou lyst for vs be ded | |
135 | That we may clayme for our saluacyon |
Receyue thy body amonge in fourme of bred | |
Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie |
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¶That we dare say with all humilyte | |
Under the wenges of thy proteccyon wenges: =wings | |
Panem nostrum da nobis hodie | |
140 | Knoden afore Pilat / baken in thy passyon Knoden: =Kneaded |
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Our dayly brede our restauracyon | |
Our fode our manna / agayne fendes violence | |
Stronge with Helyas / byble maketh mencyon | |
To mount_Oreb / to haue there resydence | |
145 | ¶This brede of lyfe gyueth vs force & myght |
Agayne gostly enemyes / when they wolde assayle | |
Helthe of the soule oure body stronge in fyght | |
With spyrites infernall / to holde a batayle | |
Sathan abydeth not for all his apparayle | |
150 | Where this brede is sacred with chrystes mouth |
Clenly receyued / the fende may not auayle | |
So great vertue / this brede hath east and south | |
¶This brede of aungels / brede celestyall | |
Brede that excellyth / reason and nature | |
155 | Callyd brede of lyfe and repast eternall |
Gyueth lyfe euer-lastyn[g]e / and euer shall endure euer-lastynge] euer-lastynke 1530 | |
Most commendyd by prophetes in scrypture | |
Bothe to soule and body / brede of most comfort | |
Folke in sykenesse / this bred doth them recure | |
160 | To poore pylgrymmes restoratyfe and support |
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra &c. |
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¶In this peticion o lorde do vs socourre | |
Fyrst consyderynge / our fragilitye | |
Forgyue our dettes / as we forgyue oure | |
Aboue all-thynge / to loue and drede the | |
165 | Next oure neyghbour / in perfyt cheryte |
Fyrst deme my-selfe / worst of any man | |
Uoyde of presumpcyon / bowynge done my kne done: =down | |
And to remembre vppon the publycan | |
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Durst not lyfte his eyen / vp vnto heuen | |
170 | To loke vp ferefull / on the sonne-streme |
And I am soyled with the synnes seuen | |
That in myne eyen / can not se a large beme | |
Though it spredde / all abrode this reame reame: =realm | |
Yet can I se well motys in other mennes syght | |
175 | A small sparke / that castyth out no beme |
Blent in fautys / though torches were clere lyght Blent ='Blinded'? (see OED s.v. blend v1), or 'Shone, glittered'? (see OED s.v. blenk v, 6) | |
This to saye I can be well vengeable | |
When my neyghbour / doth a small trespace | |
Though I be gylty / and horryble coulpable | |
180 | Can fynde wayes / lyghtly for to passe |
And agaynst my brother / great gyltes compasse | |
My-selfe also excuse / and put on hym the wrake | |
With lyke fals assemblaunt / shew out a fayre face assemblaunt: =assemblant, 'appearance, show' | |
As in my-selfe there founde were no lacke | |
185 | ¶And to conclude who wyll no mercy haue |
At his most nede he shall go mercyles | |
And who is besy his neyghbour to depraue | |
By fals report / escapeth not harmeles | |
Mourder at the back and language rekles | |
190 | Ipocrysye / fraude / compassyth guyle |
Symulacyon and flatry put in presse | |
This sort wyll out though they dure a whyle | |
¶But yf thou stonde in perfyt cheryte | |
To loue thy frende / and also thyn enemye | |
195 | Without faynynge / or duplycyte |
That there be no faute couertly | |
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To shewe one outwarde / and another inwardly | |
In such wyse / thy prayer is not good | |
I dare affyrme / and wryte trewly | |
200 | God louyd neuer / two faces in one hood |
Et ne nos inducas in temptacione. |
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¶O lorde Iesu of mercyfull pyte | |
Under the banner of thy passyon | |
Agayne our dedly / dredfull foys thre | |
Suffer vs to falle / in no temptacyon | |
205 | The fleshe the feende / by fals collusyon |
The olde serpent / with many thousande treyne | |
Without blood / shad for our redempcyon | |
We may in charyte / not well this prayer saye | |
¶It is remembred / of Mathees the gospell | |
210 | Of a seruaunt / as made is mencyon |
Bycause his lorde / was agayne hym fell | |
He was feteryd and sygned to pryson | |
In sygne / who wyll do no remyssyon | |
At suche a streyg[ht] / his seruaunt for to saue streyght] streygth 1530 | |
215 | Dimitte nobis / put from this orison |
Who doth no mercy / he shall no mercy haue | |
Sed libera nos a malo. |
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¶Of thy benygne / mercyfull pyte | |
Lorde in this perilous / dredfull pylgrymage | |
Saue vs from daunger / and all aduersyte | |
220 | And vs delyuer / from all foreyn damage |
From peryll passed / without present passage | |
Future swalowyng / of fortunes floodes | |
Dredfull carybdys / syrenes mortall rage | |
And transmutacyon / of all worldly goodes. | |
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225 | ¶Pater-noster this prayer vertuous |
Yf it be sayd / with dew reuerence | |
Of all prayers is most victorious | |
Agayne our thre enemyes / to stonde at dyffence | |
So that Maria lyst shewe her presence | |
230 | And feruent charyte / be captayne of the felde |
Fy on all infernall violence | |
So chrystes passyon / be portrayed in our shelde | |
¶Lyke a glenare vppon a large londe | |
Amonge shokkes plentuous of auctours | |
235 | Though I were besy / to gader with my honde |
Lyke myne desyre to haue founde out some flours | |
The grene was ropen / russet were the colours | |
I founde no suger / in my small liberary | |
Soil dryed vp / of Tullius syluer shours | |
240 | Ferefull and dull / there longer for to tarry |
¶In this processe any more to saye | |
Good-wyll abode in my inwarde entent | |
The aureate lycour was in my study dreye dreye: =dry | |
Of callyope / and all her fauour spent | |
245 | Founde there no causes / but scrowles all to_rent |
Nothynge ellumyned / with golde asure nor red | |
Whiche shalbe ioyned / with my testament | |
Layde on my brest / the houre whan I shall be ded | |
¶Though I was dull / in my deuocyons | |
250 | Duryng my lyfe / with cordyall reuerence |
Dayly to saye / these .vii. peticyons | |
Herte and mouth accordynge in sentence | |
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With cyrcumstaunces / of intellygence | |
To please the lorde / with hole affeccyon | |
255 | Ueyne thoughtes / voyde slouth and neglygence |
Mor than a thousand without deuocyon Mor: =More | |
¶Lenuoy. |
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¶To all my maysters knelynge on my kne | |
That shall rede this compylacyon | |
I praye them mekely / of theyr benygnyte | |
Fyrste dewly done / examynacyon | |
5 | And folowynge after iuste correccyon |
Whan they haue leysoure and couenable space | |
That I maye fynde supportacyon | |
By godly fauour / to correcte of theyr grace. | |
¶Man lyfte vp thy harte / to the father in heuen | |
10 | And praye vnto hym / whiche is eternall |
That sytteth so farre / aboue [the] sterres seuen the] ther 1530 | |
In his palays most imperyall | |
To graunte vs grace here in this lyfe mortall | |
Contricyon of synne / afore our departynge | |
15 | And or we passe / remyssyon finall |
Towarde that lyfe / where ioye is euer-lastynge. | |
Amen. | |
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