On The Wounds Of Our Crucified Lord.[31]

O, these wakefull wounds of Thine! Are they mouthes? or are they eyes? Be they mouthes, or be they eyne, Each bleeding part some one supplies.

Lo! a mouth! whose full-bloom'd lips At too dear a rate are roses: Lo! a blood-shot eye! that weeps, And many a cruell teare discloses.

O, thou that on this foot hast laid Many a kisse, and many a teare; Now thou shalt have all repaid, What soe're thy charges were.

This foot hath got a mouth and lips To pay the sweet summe of thy kisses; To pay thy teares, an eye that weeps, Instead of teares, such gems as this is.

The difference onely this appeares, (Nor can the change offend) The debt is paid in ruby-teares Which thou in pearles did'st lend.