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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?

Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?