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 mocking, and maliciously affronting thee with injuries all that night.

7. O good and gracious Jesus, who in the morning wast brought to the presence of Pilate, and, with a most sweet and humble countenance, casting thine eyes down, stoodest before him in the judgment hall, and, when thou wast most falsely calumniated by the Jews, and many insults and provocations were given thee, thou meekly heldest thy peace, and patiently sufferedst their unjust proceedings.

8. O good and gracious Jesus, who wast sent from Pilate to Herod; he, out of vain curiosity, coveting to see some miracle at thy hand, demanded many things of thee, and the Jews continuing their perverseness against thee; but to all these thy meekness replied not a word; wherefore Herod and all his court despised thee, and, putting on thee a white garment in scorn and derision, sent thee thus back again to Pilate. O unspeakable humility and obedience to the will of thine enemies, thou wentest forth and returnedst again, and wast led up and down from place to place without gainsaying, but suffering them to do whatever they would.

9. O good and gracious Jesus, who, in the judgment hall, wast stripped naked, and, without any compassion, most cruelly scourged. There was thy blessed virginal and tender flesh torn with stripes, and altogether mangled and deformed, so that the streams of thy most precious blood ran down on every side upon the earth.

10. O good and gracious Jesus, after thy sharp and bloody scourging, to put thee to more shame and confusion, as also to increase thy torments, they clothed thee with an old purple garment, and platting a crown of thorns, pressed it on thy holy head, till the sharp points pierced thy temples, and thy most precious blood ran down and covered thy face and