Let His Holiness grant also to the Queen herself a plenary
indulgence and remission of all her sins, in the form of a jubilee,
as often as, having confessed her sins, she may pray on bended
knees before the Holy Eucharist, or receive it, and as often as she
patiently endures injuries inflicted on her by heretics. May she
obtain also the same indulgence at the moment of death by invoking
with her lips, Jesu, Maria, or at least meditating on them in her
heart.
Finally the Queen begs His Holiness with many prayers, that
whomsoever she shall choose as a priest, she may be by him, in
sacramental confession, absolved from all censures, even from those
reserved to the Holy Apostolic See, and contained in the Bull
"Coena Domini."
Illustration: SILVER-GILT HAND-BELL. Height 4-½ inches. (_Used by Queen
Mary in Captivity._)
_"IN THEE HAVE I TRUSTED"_
Poem composed by Queen Mary in view of her Approaching Death.
O Domine Deus, speravi in te!
O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In dura catena, in misera poena,
Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo,
Adoro, imploro ut liberes me.
_Tr. Mr. Swinburne, Mary Stuart_, Act V.
O Lord my God,
I have trusted in thee;
O Jesu my dearest one,
Now set me free.
In prison's oppression,
In sorrow's obsession,
I weary for thee.
With sighing and crying,
Bowed down as dying,
I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!
_PARTING WITH ROBERT MELVILLE_
1587.--February 8. Narrative of the Execution, sent to the Court.
_Ellis's Letters_, Ser. ii. vol. iii. p. 113, from the
Lansdowne MS. 51, Art. 46.
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