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 "How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are dove's eyes."

That my aspect be pleasing, and that the beauty of my soul be grateful unto thee: do thou, I beseech thee, bestow the gift of virtues and graces upon me, to deck and trim myself, whereby I may live to glorify thy holy name for ever and ever.

O merciful and holy Trinity! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one only true God, teach, direct, and help me in all. O Father omnipotent, I beseech thee, by the greatness of thy immense power, to confirm and strengthen my memory in thee only, and to replenish it with holy and pious cogitations. O Son most wise, illuminate my small understanding, with thy eternal wisdom, to know thy everlasting truth, and my own misery. O Holy Ghost, love of the Father and the Son, with thy incomprehensible goodness, make my will conformable to thy divine pleasure, inflame it with such a fire of thy holy love, that no waters which arise from the turbulent fear of evil suggestions, may be able to extinguish it. O holy Trinity and one God; I would to God I could do nothing else but praise and love thee, and as much as all thy holy saints; I would to God I had the love of all creatures in me alone; I would, with a willing mind, transfer and turn it to the love of thee, although this were nothing, in respect of what thou deservest. Only thou thyself canst worthily love and