¶ A metricall declaration of the .vij. petitions of the pater noster. luke. xi. when ye pray, say. Our father which arte in heaven. &c. THough I be willing and fervent of desire yet for vnkonnynge I dare not me advance Of the heavenly mysteries though ye would require Of the pater noster to declare in substance Recordyd in scripture/ yf ye call to remembrance This prayer exciteth crystē hartes with devout matters Onely in christ Iesu to finde all suffysaunce As therein is taught by the .vii. prayers ¶ Groundely and bryefely also comprehendyd while he was here/ of trouth it is thus fall Taught his disciples/ which may not be amendyd For it transcendeth other prayers all Most authorized/ when we for succour call Most celestial and most of dygnite crowned among prayers in the heavenly stall yf it be said in resolve cheryte ¶ I haue no mouth/ plainly to devise first to remember/ the great dignity fearful to take/ on me so high enterprise most celestial/ most aungelyk of degree For to the high mighty trinyte It is direct/ lord of most puissance which called is/ one two and three All one in virtue/ and all one in substance ¶ This word pater sheweth in substance His might is most greatest of excellence Of heaven and earth/ hath all the ordinance Called well of grace/ myrour of sappence which to his children/ of fatherly providence Hath give a franchise/ above franchises all That we may boldly/ with devout reverence again all mischief/ to him for help call ¶ first this word Pater/ set us in assurance And this word/ noster/ giveth us humbleness Of him to require with devout obeisance Remedy/ again all worldly distress So that charity with her sister meekness faith/ trust/ and hope/ be with them present Then when we pray/ and say of faithfulness Pater noster/ we shall haue our intent ¶ In this word Pater standeth all our confidence Our hole believe/ when we say Quies Our steadfast faith/ and fully our credence In heaven abiding/ as sovereign lord of peas where three ietachyes/ day and night not ses To cry in celis/ with heavenly melody Cherubyn nor seraphyn/ not sloth nor reckles sing Osanna/ with fervent armonye. ¶ whose glorious name/ for to magnify Mouth and tongue/ be lame of their language But the holy ghost/ by grace list us to guye us to enspyre/ in our mortal passage As ghostly children/ born of hye lineage never to thine highness/ be no mortal offence In this dreadful perilous pilgrimage till clear contrycion/ our gyltes recompense ¶ we were renewed/ full nigh to thine ally By the holy gostes/ gracious influence first by baptism/ to begin at that party Next confirmed/ by thy magnificence To ben acceptyd/ to thy beniuolence As choose children to thine heritage That we may say/ with devout reverence lord haue mercy/ on all our old outrage ¶ These .vii. petitions/ be of virtue most Onely to god/ of hole heart applied To the .vii. virtues/ of the holy ghost first when we say/ this name be sanctified Name of all names/ hallowed and glorified As the gospel plainly doth command But here my symplenesse/ with Argus not clear eyed ive this question/ asking this demand ¶ How might in us be kynled such desire Boldly to say/ conceived our feebleness Though charity brent in us as flamme of fire like as in Seraphyn/ brenneth all perfytnesse I answer thus/ a ground take of meekness virtue of virtues/ doctors say the same under support/ of his paternal goodness To say or think/ hallowed be thy name ¶ without addicyon to set our heart at rests That therewithal we haue this sentence For our party/ to conclude for our beste In our inward/ ghostly intelligence first that his name/ name of most excellence within himself/ every hour and space Be sanctified so/ that by his providence It may in us/ be sanctified by his grace. adveniat regnum tuum. ¶ Thy kingdom lord illumined with thy face where is full gladness/ of all ghostly light May come to us at the time set and space when thou assygnest/ by thine eternal might Of thy presence/ that we may haue a sight O gracyons lord/ our time, so provide claimed with meekness/ of mercy more than right Be mean of thy passion/ that we may there abide ¶ Thy kingdom lord first in this present life Come to us/ to rule us and govern again the assawtes/ and the triple strife Of our three ennemyes/ lord hold so the lantern By thy grace which that is etern reign so in us/ of reason hold so our bridle between good and evil/ we may so discern again thy pleasure/ to do nothing in idle ¶ Lo de by thy mercy/ reign in us so here Of all vices/ that we may haue victory To claim a title/ above the sterrys clear Thy passion chief/ set first in memory with the to reign/ in thine eternal glory Alked by bill writ/ with thy precious blood shed from thy body for our careful misery On high upon the mount/ at calvary on the rood Fiat voluntas tua. ¶ So as thy will fulfilled is in heaven right so in earth/ fulfilled mout it be like as the court/ above the stars seven Of orders nine/ and ierarchyes three singing sanctus/ thryes before the trinyte So make us lord/ with devout observance day and night/ kneeling on our knee Thy death thy passion to haue in remembrance ¶ first thy precepts/ and ten comaundementes we may fulfil between hope and dread And forsake with all our hole intents All that should displease thee in dede sith to a pillar/ thou list for us to b●ede Therwith to do/ all that thou list command suffer thy mercy/ so upon us spread Part to receive/ that thou gafe at thy maunde To thy disciples for a memorial For a perpetual commemoracyon Of thy flesh and thy blood/ take in especial Of a pure maid/ thine incarnation Thy meek sufferance/ for our redemption with mind also/ thou list for us be ded That we may claim for our salvation receive thy body among in form of bread Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodis ¶ That we dare say with all humilyte under the wenges of thy protection Panem nostrum da nobis hody Knoden afore Pilat/ baken in thy passion Our daily breed our restauracyon Our food our manna/ again fiends violence strong with Helyas/ bible maketh mention Tomount Oreb/ to haue there residence ¶ This breed of life giveth us force& might A gain ghostly enemies/ when they wolde assail health of the soul our body strong in fight with spirits infernal/ to hold a bat ail satan abideth not for all his apparel where this breed is sacred with chrystes mouth cleanly received/ the fiend may not avail So great virtue/ this breed hath east and south ¶ This breed of angels/ breed celestial breed that excellyth/ reason and nature called breed of life/ and repast eternal giveth life ever lastynke/ and ever shall endure Most commendyd by prophetes in scripture both to soul and body/ breed of most comfort folk in sickness/ this bread doth them recure To poor pylgrymmes restoratyfe and support Et dimit nobis debita nostra &c. ¶ In this petition o lord do us socourre first considering/ our fragilitye forgive our debts/ as we forgive our above all thing/ to love and dread the Next our neighbour/ in resolve cheryte first deme myself/ worst of any man void of presumpeyon/ bowing done my knee And to remember upon the publican Durst not lift his eyen/ up unto heaven To look up fearful/ on the son stream And I am soiled with the sins seven That in mine eyen/ can not se a large beam Though it spread/ all abroad this ream yet can I se well motys in other mennes sight A small spark/ that castyth out no beam Blent in faurys/ though torches were clear light This to say I can be well vengeable when my neighbour/ doth a small trespass Though I be guilty/ and horrible coulpable Can finde ways/ lightly for to pass And against my brother/ great gyltes compass myself also excuse/ and put on him the wrake with like fals assemblaunt/ show out a fair face As in myself there found were no lack ¶ And to conclude who will no mercy haue At his most need he shall go mercyles And who is busy his neighbour to deprave By fals report/ escapeth not harmless Mourder at the back and language rekles Ipocrysye/ fraud/ compassyth guile Symulacyon and flatry put in press This sort will out though they dure a while ¶ But yf thou grind in resolve cheryte To love thy friend/ and also thyn enemy without feigning/ or duplycyte That there be no fault covertly To show one outward/ and another inwardly In such wise/ thy prayer is not good I dare affirm/ and write truly God loved never/ two faces in one hood Et ne nos inducas in temptacionem ¶ O lord Iesu of merciful pity under the banner of thy passion again our deadly/ dreadful foys three Suffer us to fall/ in no salvation The flesh the feende/ by fals collusyon The old serpent/ with many thousand treyne without blood/ shed for our redemption we may in charity/ not well this prayer say ¶ It is remembered/ of Mathees the gospel Of a servant/ as made is mention because his lord/ was again him fell He was feteryd and signed to prison In sign/ who will do no remission At such a streygth/ his servant for to save dimit nobis/ put from this orison who doth no mercy/ he shall no mercy haue said libera nos a malo. ¶ Of thy benign/ merciful pity lord in this perilous/ dreadful pilgrimage save us from danger/ and all adversity And us deliver/ from all foreign damage From peril passed/ without present passage Future swalowyng of fortunes floods dreadful carybdys/ syrenes mortal rage And transmutacyon/ of all worldly goods. ¶ Pater noster this prayer virtuous yf it be said/ with due reverence Of all prayers is most victorious again our three enemies/ to grind at dyffence So that Maria list show her presence And fervent charity/ be captain of the field fie on all infernal violence So chrystes passion/ be portrayed in our shield ¶ like a glenare upon a large land among shokkes plenteous of auctours Though I were busy/ to gather with my hand like mine desire to haue found out some flowers The green was ropen/ russet were the colours I found no sugar/ in my small liberary Soil dried up/ of Cullius syiuer showers fearful and dull/ there longer for to tarry ¶ In this process any more to say Good will abode in my inward intent The aureate liquor was in my study dreye Of callyope/ and all her favour spent found there no causes/ but scrolls all to rent nothing ellumyned/ with gold azure norred which shalbe joined/ with my testament laid on my breast/ the hour when I shall be ded ¶ Though I was dull/ in my deuocyons during my life/ with cordyall reverence daily to say/ these .vii. peticyons heart and mouth according in sentence with cyrcumstaunces/ of intelligence To please the lord/ with hole affecyon vein thoughts/ void flouth and negligence Mor than a thousand without devotion ¶ Lenuoy. ¶ To all my masters kneeling on my knee That shall rede this compylacyon I pray them meekly/ of their benignity first duly done/ examynacyon And following after just correcyon when they haue leysoure and covenable space That I may finde supportacyon By godly favour/ to correct of their grace. ¶ Man lift up thy heart/ to the father in heaven And pray unto him/ which is eternal That sitteth so far/ above ther stars seven In his palace most imperial To grant us grace here in this life mortal Contricyon of sin/ afore our departing And or we pass/ remission final toward that life/ where joy is ever lasting. Amen. In principio de{us} creavit celum et terra: