The golden Litany in english. woodcut of Father on throne, Christ crucified, Holy Spirit as dove LOrd have mercy upon us. christ have mercy upon us. Lord have mercy upon us: and grant us virtue of soul & mind in earth and above earth/ that we may serve the after the pleasure of thy will. God everlasting & father by your heavenly virtue have mercy upon us. The son of god redeemer of the world/ have mercy upon us. The holy ghost by thy goodness/ have mercy upon us. God by increate & undivided trinity have mercy upon us. By thy divine & une essence/ have mercy upon us. By thy divine nature/ have mercy upon us. By thy infinite meekness have mercy upon us. By thyself & all goodness that in the thou beholdest/ have mercy upon us. By the creation of heaven & earth/ & all things that in them are/ have mercy upon us. By thy goodness that thou st angels/ have mercy upon us. By the love that thou hadst when thou created man to thine own similitude, have mercy upon us. By the great love that thou had to redeem man after his fall, have mercy upon us. By that ineffable love that thou had when thou chase the worthy virgin mary to be thy mother, have mercy upon us. By mary's holy name, that descended fro the high throne of the trinity & efflowed have mercy upon us. By the conception of the virgin thy mother the which was sanctified in her mother's womb, have thou mercy upon us. By the holy nativity of her/ have mercy upon us. By the perfit purity and the meekness of her/ have mercy upon us. By the most humble affection which she took of the in thy lap of the father in her virgin womb/ have mercy upon us. By the meekness of thy high majesty that thou deigned not to descend in to the womb of the virgin marry have mercy upon us. By the frail nature of ours that it pleased that to take for our sin/ not abhorring have mercy upon us. By thy holy nativity that thou wouldest vouchsafe to be borne of a maid/ have mercy upon us. By the ineffable joy which thy mother had in thy birth have mercy upon us. By the cold crib in the which with vile clothes thou were wound and put/ & nourished with maidens milk/ have mercy upon us. By the joy of the shepherds which honoured the in the crib/ have mercy upon us. By thy painful circumcision of shedding of thy precious blood/ and by thy holy name Jesus'/ and by all thy holy saints/ have mercy upon us. By the oblation and prayer of the three kings/ have mercy upon us. By the oblation that thou were offered in to the temple/ have mercy upon us. By thy flying in to Egypte/ & by all the necessity that thou suffered there with the virgin thy mother/ have mercy upon us. By thy going again fro Egypte in to Nazareth & obedience that thou were under thy parents, have mercy upon us. By thy humble & meek conversation that thou had on earth the time of xxxiij year thou were conversant/ have mercy upon us. By thy meek obedience & pains have mercy upon us. By thy holy meditations in word and work/ have mercy upon us. By thy baptism and appearing of the holy trinity/ have mercy upon us. By thy holy steadfast contemplations & kneelings, and overcoming of the fiends temptation in desert, have mercy upon us. By thy thirst and hunger, cold & heat which in this vale of misery thou suffered/ have mercy upon us. By the sorrow of thy heart/ labour and weariness/ have mercy upon us. By thy great poverty and contemplation/ have mercy upon us. By the obtrectation that thine enemies detract to thee/ have mercy upon us By thy watchings & prayers/ have mercy upon us. By thy wholesome doctrine & benefits and strength of resisting/ that thou granted not to thine enemies/ have mercy upon us. By the tokens/ wonders/ and miracles that thou did/ have mercy upon us. By thy meek sweet and holy conversation/ have mercy upon us. By thy holy tears and thy meek entering in to jerusalem on palm sunday/ have mercy upon us. By the shrewd counsel in whom the perverted jews conspired the unto the death/ have mercy upon us. By thy inflamed desire that thou had to redeem us/ have mercy upon us. By thy meek washing of thy disciples feet and judas the traitor/ have mercy upon us. By the most beloved institution of thy worthy sacrament of thy blessed body & blood lord have mercy upon us. By the profound love that thou souffered thy disciple Iohn to rest on thy breast at thy last supper/ have mercy upon us. By the peace that thou gave to thy disciples/ have mercy upon us. By thy holy words and sermons have mercy upon us. By thy hugely great heaviness that thou had when thou prayed to thy father in the yard nigh the mount of olyuete/ have mercy upon us. By the virtue of thy prayer that thou shed out three times, have mercy upon us. By thy painful & fearful death, have mercy upon us. By the agony that thou offered thyself wilfully to the death, in obeying thy father have mercy upon us. By the shedding of thy blood for anguyssh, have mercy upon us. By the meekness that thou would be comforted of the angel, comfort me in all times, & have mercy upon us. By the triumphant will that thou had when thou went to meet them that sought the in to death/ have mercy upon us. By the fearful taking & the violent laying on hands of the jews/ have mercy upon us. By thy immutable goodness that thou refused not to take the kiss of judas the traitor/ and that thou healed the ear of the bishops servant/ that was stricken of/ have mercy upon us. By thy holy bonds in the which thou were taken led and braydes in which thou were made weary that night/ have mercy upon us. By the buffet which thou suffredest on the seat of Annas the bishop and other unknowing thee/ have mercy upon us. By the love and charity that thou hadst when thou were led bounden before the bishop Cayfas/ have mercy upon us. By the false witness & lies and unjustly dampened have mercy upon us. By the vile spittings and illusions/ have mercy upon us. By thy buffets and stripes/ have mercy upon us. By the blind feeling of thy holy eyen/ and other reproves that thou suffered that night, have mercy upon us By thy gracious beholding that thou beheldest Peter, & by all that labour and secret unknown torment which thou suffered at that night have mercy upon us. By thy presentation and accusation which they brought against the before pilate the judge, have mercy upon us. By the despising and illusion that thou suffered before Herode/ & the white vesture in the which he sent the to Pilate/ have mercy upon us. By all confirmation and unknown labour that thou suffered in going from one judge to an other/ have mercy upon us. By thy great patience & stillness/ have mercy upon us. By the shameful pulling of thy clothes & hard binding of thy body to the pillar/ have mercy upon us By the hard beating of scourges/ have mercy upon us. By the innumerable wounds of thy precious body hugely shed out, have mercy upon us. By all thy pains, dolours, cold and shaking, and the glad thrusting out of thy blood/ have mercy upon us. By the purple vestment and the crown of thorn thrusted to thy blessed heed with violence, have mercy upon us. By the innumerable pains that thou were tormented when they smote the crown of thorn with the kings sceptre/ and by the great effusion of thy precious blood have mercy upon us. By the scornful honouring and saluting of the jews, when they said: Hail king of jews/ have mercy upon us By their vile spitting in thy divine face together with hard strokes/ have mercy upon us. By all the pains and heaviness of heart that thou had when pilate led the out unto the people bearing the crown of thorn and the purple vestment and said, behold man/ have mercy upon us. By the dreadful sentence of death & vile name/ leading the unto the mount of calvary/ have mercy upon us. By the love that thou bore the cross to the place of pain upon thy back, have mercy upon us. By the labour/ anguish/ shame and beating which thou sufferedest by the way have mercy upon us. By all thy hard steps that thou had bearing the cross when thou went to thy death/ have mercy upon us. By the great heaviness of thy shoulders in which thou bore the cross unto the time thou failed for weakness/ have mercy upon us. By the compassion of thy heart that thou had in meeting of thy sorrowful mother in bearing of thy cross have mercy upon us. By thy heavy looking & ascending up the high mount of calvary/ on which thou were crucified/ have mercy upon us. By the spoiling of thy clothes in most confusion in the eye sight of the virgin thy mother & all the people, have mercy upon us By the saying that thou were naked, full of wounds, and laden with great sorrows with the cold of the wind suffering till the cross were made ready, have mercy upon us. By thy heavy steps when thou wentest near to the cross, and thereon fastened with boistous nails, have mercy upon us. By eking thy pain & thy weeping, have mercy upon us. By the ache of thy veins and sinews & all thy members on thy cross, have mercy upon us. By the thyrling of thy right hand, & shedding of thy precious blood, lord make us clean from all sin, & have mercy upon us. By the thyrling of thy life hand, and by the holy wound of the same & thy holy blood save us and have mercy upon us. By the sore driving of the nails and by thy holy feet, and by the wounds of the same, and by the precious blood from the shedding/ purge us & reconcile us to thy father & have mercy on us. By the lifting up of thy most holy body on the cross/ and by the violent pains of it all thy holy membres were ruefully pained have mercy on us. By the heaviness of thy heart & all the strengths of thy soul/ save me/ defend me/ and have mercy on us. By the division or parting of thy vesture/ and the lot which they cast on thy cote without seem/ thou saying it/ have mercy upon us. By the love that thou hang iij hours on the cross alive/ have mercy on us. By the reproves and confusion full of words that thou heard hanging on the cross/ have mercy upon us. By the blasphemings & sorrows & confusyons that thou suffered hanging on the cross/ have mercy on us. By all the dolours that thou suffered in thy rib hips and shoulders crucified/ have mercy upon us. By all the pains that thou had spread on the cross in thy sinews, veins, feet, and all thy membres, have mercy upon us. By thy great meekness that thou prayed to thy father for thine enemies, have mercy upon us. By thy mercy that thou promised the thief paradise, have mercy upon us. By the charge that thou had to thy mother in thy torment, commending her to thy beloved disciple, have mercy upon us. By the sword of sorrow that went unto thy moders heart, and the compassion & tears that she shed out for sorrow standing under the cross, have mercy upon us. By all thy holy tears on the cross and all the time of thy life shed out, have mercy upon us. By thy thirst/ gall and eisell with vinegar, give me to taste of thy sweet spirit, & have mercy upon us. By all thy holy words by the pronounced upon the cross/ and all those that in thy life thou showed, have mercy upon us. By the weeping & cry in the which thou commended thy spirit to thy father, our souls may be commended to thee/ have mercy upon us. By the separation of thy holy soul from thy blessed & divine body/ hau● mercy upon us. By the inclining of thy holy head upon thy breast/ incline sweet jesus unto us and have mercy upon us. By the hugeness of thy death and intolerable bruisings in which thy heart was broken/ have mercy upon us. By the opening of thy side & the reed wound of it and the precious blood good lord thyrle our heart with the spear of all thy love & have mercy upon us. By the precious blood and water that ran out of thy holy heart/ wash and make us clean in the same holy water & blood from all our sins/ & have mercy upon us. By the mercy that thou showed on the cross to Centurio/ and all the mercy that ever thou showed to man/ have mercy upon us. By the descending of thy holy soul to limbo patrum/ have mercy upon us. By the virtue of thy holy soul that thou brakest up the gates of hell, and delivered out the souls of thy friends/ have mercy upon us. By the taking down of thy holy body of the cross/ and the solemn sepulture of it, & the lamenting of the virgin thy mother, & Mary magdalen & other of thy friends, have mercy upon us. By all the labour/ weariness/ sorrow and heaviness that thou suffered from the day of thy nativity unto the hour of the departing of thy soul fro thy body/ have mercy upon us. By thy glorious & virtuous resurrection in body & soul/ have mercy upon us. By the ineffable joy of thy mother & other of thy friends/ and the glory of thy resurrection/ have mercy upon us. By the grace that thou apperedest to Mary magdalen and other women and to thy disciple in thy impassable body after thy resurrection/ have mercy upon us. By thy marvelous & glorious ascension comfort us lord in all our needs/ and have mercy upon us. By the divine consolation and sending of the holy ghost in to thy disciples/ glad us/ sanctify us/ strength us in faith hope and charity/ and have mercy upon us. By thy glorious & divine majesty & the virtue of thy holy name keep us/ govern us now & everlasting/ and have mercy upon us. By the son in thy holy godhead together in thy manhood hid have mercy on us. By the joy that thyself were in/ have mercy on us. By thyself & all goodness & merit that in the & in thy mother thou beholdest/ have mercy upon us. By the ministers Mychael and Gabryell, keepers deputed to me, and all other thy celestial spirits/ have mercy upon us. By the intercession and merits of saint Peter & Paul, Iohn the evangelist, and other of thine apostles/ have mercy upon us. By the merits & intercession of thy holy martyrs Laurence & Stephen, & all other/ have mercy upon us. By the virtues and merits of the holy fathers & confessors Francis, Augustyne, Anthony, & all other, have mercy on us. By the merits and prayers of the holy saint Anne, Katheryn Barbara, and all other holy virgins & holy widows & chaste women/ have mercy on us. By the merits and prayers of all thy holy chosen saints, that are, were and are for to come in heaven & in earth/ have mercy on us. Secure us sweet jesus in the trembling and straight day of judgement, & grant us in this exile & transitory life those things that be necessary to the health of our body & soul/ and after this life to live in joy with the everlastingly withouten end. Amen. Lord hear graciously my prayers, and that my cry may come to the. etc. pray we. Lord give to the quick grace/ to the deed res● in especial for them that I am bound N. to the church holiness, peace & concord. And that thou wilt vouched save to take this prayer to the honour and glory of thy holy name, and that thou wilt vouch save to have mercy upon us. And to redeem us by thy painful death/ and to forgive us all our sins/ and grant everlastingly that we may perceiver in all goodness/ and that we may serve the. And after this life we may deserve to reign with the in everlasting glory and life without end. AMEN. ¶ A devout blessing in english, lately translated out of french by Robert Copland. THe holy cross be before me/ the blessing of god be upon me, with the blessing that god blessed the three kings which Herode so that none enemies have power to grieve nor to vex me from all good works/ the which grant the hole trinity, father, son and holy ghost. AMEN. ¶ Laus deo. ¶ Imprinted at London in Fauster lane, by me Iohn Skot, dwelling in saint Leonard's parish.