Vpon the sepulchre of our Lord.
Here, where our Lord once laid His head,
Now the grave lies buried. Cr.
LV.
Leprosi ingrati. Luc. xvii. 11-19.
Lex jubet ex hominum coetu procul ire leprosos:
At mundi a Christo cur abiere procul?
Non abit, at sedes tantum mutavit in illis;
Et lepra, quae fuerat corpore, mente sedet.
Sic igitur digna vice res variatur; et a se
Quam procul ante homines, nunc habuere Deum.
The unthankful lepers. (Where are the nine?)
The Lord commands the lepers
far off from men to stay:
But cleansèd by the Lord,
why went the Nine away?
The leprosy remaineth,
chang'd only in its seat:
Expellèd from the body,
to the soul it makes retreat.
Now by fit retribution
a change is brought about:
Before shut out from men,
from God they're now shut out. G.
LVI.
In cicatrices quas Christus habet in se adhuc superstites. Joan. xx.
Quicquid spina procax, vel stylo clavus acuto,
Quicquid purpurea scripserat hasta nota,
Vivit adhuc tecum; sed jam tua vulnera non sunt:
Non, sed vulneribus sunt medicina meis.