| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| Sir Henry Wotton |
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| 80. A Hymn to my GOD in a night of my late Sicknesse |
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| OH thou great Power, in whom I move, | |
| For whom I live, to whom I die, | |
| Behold me through thy beams of love, | |
| Whilest on this Couch of tears I lye; | |
| And Cleanse my sordid soul within, | 5 |
| By thy Chirsts Bloud, the bath of sin. | |
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| No hallowed oyls, no grains I need, | |
| No rags of Saints, no purging fire, | |
| One rosie drop from David's Seed | |
| Was worlds of seas, to quench thine Ire. | 10 |
| O pretious Ransome! which once paid, | |
| That Consummatum est was said. | |
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| And said by him, that said no more, | |
| But seal'd it with his sacred breath. | |
| Thou then, that hast dispung'd my score, | 15 |
| And dying, wast the death of death; | |
| Be to me now, on thee I call, | |
| My Life, my Strength, my Joy, my All. | |
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