O myrrour of mekenes, pease, and tranquylyte,
My confort, my counsell, my parfyt charyte!
O water of lyfe, O well of consolacion!
Agaynst all stormys of harde aduersyte
Rescu me, good Lord, by thy preseruacion. Amen.
Quod Skelton, Laureat.
[586] payned] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “paynted.”
[587] feruence] So Lant’s ed. Other eds. “seruence” and “sentence.”