SILVER-GILT HAND-BELL. Height 4-½ inches. (Used by Queen Mary in Captivity.)
"IN THEE HAVE I TRUSTED"
Poem composed by Queen Mary in view of her Approaching Death.
O Domine Deus, speravi in te!
O care mi Jesu, nunc libera me!
In dura catena, in misera poena,
Languendo, gemendo, et genu flectendo,
Adoro, imploro ut liberes me.
Tr. Mr. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, Act V.
O Lord my God,
I have trusted in thee;
O Jesu my dearest one,
Now set me free.
In prison's oppression,
In sorrow's obsession,
I weary for thee.
With sighing and crying,
Bowed down as dying,
I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!
PARTING WITH ROBERT MELVILLE
1587.—February 8. Narrative of the Execution, sent to the Court.
Ellis's Letters, Ser. ii. vol. iii. p. 113, from the Lansdowne MS. 51, Art. 46.