I fledde from thee by manie sinnes1This poem is a fragment of “Amor Ordinem Nescit,” lines 277-288. And thow didst follow me, As if my ruin would have caus’d some detriment to thee.
How can this chuse but wounde my heart when I remember it, And euer serue to humble me while at thy feet I sitte?2“And she had a sister called Mary, who sitting also at the Lord’s feet, heard his word” (Luke 10:39, Douay-Rheims Bible).
From whence my lorde, my God and all permitte me not to rise Till I do loue thee as thow would’st The which doth all comprise.