Folio 44v

Miscellaneous prayers, mainly to Jesus Christ, continued.

Prayer, Domine exaudi oracionem, continued.



The author knows that his death is near. He asks to be enlightened in mind and heart as the Virgin Mary was enlightened with the holy spirit; to be heard as God heard Tobias and Sarah (Tobit, 4:16); for tears from God to fall upon his heart of stone as water on the earth; to be delivered from his enemies as God delivered Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego from the furnace (Daniel, 3:21-99). He asks to be endowed with the seven virtues and to desire good.


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prope est. Presta michi domine sapienciam et intellectum [ut] et\ illumina me sicut illuminasti Mariam de spiritu\ sancto. Te deprecor domine ut illumines cor meum\ de spiritu sancto quia peccata mea innumerabilia sunt val\de. Presta michi domine ut ea merear delere per fidem\ et caritatem et per tuum nomen mirabile, et in quacumque die invocavero te exaudire me dig\neris sicut exaudisti Tobiam et Sarram. Infun\de michi lacrimas sicut infudisti aquam terre, quia\ obduratum est cor meum quasi petra. Peccavi domine nimis in vita mea et omnes iniquita\tes meas ego agnosco. Te peto domine ad te clamo clamore magno tu porrige dexteram tuam\ et libera me de adversario meo sicut liberasti tres\ pueros de camino ignis ardentis, Sydrac, Misaac, et Abdenago. Et nunc domine deus rex\ celestis, presta michi sapienciam continenciam fidem spem\ caritatem veritatem et humilitatem ut merear\ crescere et perseverare in operibus bonis. Fac do\mine cor meum desiderare quicquid de bono locu\tus sum et cogitavi dicere [quicquid de bono] audivi in omni etate\



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