Defend vs from our foes and Thine. _V._ Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord! 235 _R._ And my mouth shall shew forth Thy praise. _V._ O God, make speed to save me! _R._ O Lord, make hast to help me! _V._ Glory be to, &c. _R._ As it was in the, &c. 240 THE HYMN. The Complin hour comes last, to call Vs to our own lives' funerall. Ah hartlesse task! yet Hope takes head, And liues in Him that here lyes dead. Run, Mary, run! Bring hither all the blest 245 Arabia, for thy royall phoenix' nest; Pour on thy noblest sweets, which, when they touch This sweeter body, shall indeed be such. But must Thy bed, Lord, be a borrow'd graue Who lend'st to all things all the life they haue. 250 O rather vse this heart, thus farr a fitter stone, 'Cause, though a hard and cold one, yet it is Thine own. Amen. _The Antiphona._ O saue vs then, Mercyfull King of men! Since Thou wouldst needs be thus 255 A Saviour, and at such a rate, for vs; Saue vs, O saue vs, Lord. We now will own no shorter wish, nor name a narrower word; Thy blood bids vs be bold, Thy wounds giue vs fair hold, 260 Thy sorrows chide our shame: Thy crosse, Thy nature, and Thy name Aduance our claim, And cry with one accord Saue them, O saue them, Lord! 265 THE RECOMMENDATION.[27] These Houres, and that which houers o're my end, Into Thy hands and hart, Lord, I commend. Take both to Thine account, that I and mine In that hour, and in these, may be all Thine. That as I dedicate my deuoutest breath 270 To make a kind of life for my Lord's death, So from His liuing and life-giuing death, My dying life may draw a new and neuer fleeting breath. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. In the original edition of this composition, as _supra_ (1648), it is entitled simply 'Vpon our B[lessed] Saviour's Passion.' What in our text (1652) constitute the Hymns, were originally numbered as seven stanzas. A few various readings from 1648 will be found below. Our text is given in full in 1670 edition, but not very accurately. _Various readings of the Hymns in 1648 'Steps.'_ I. Line 1. 'The wakefull dawning hast's to sing.' " 2. The allusion is to the petition in the old Litanies, 'By all Thine _unknown_ sorrows, good Lord, deliver us.' " 8. 'betray'd' for 'beseigd:' the former perhaps superior. II. " 1. 'The early Morne.' " 2. 'It' for 'she.' III. " 5. 'ther's' for 'there is.' IV. " 6. 'The fruit' instead of 'for'--a misprint. V. " 6. 'our great sins' sacrifice.' VII. " 1. 'The Nightening houre'--a curious coinage.