Whose sweetness Heaven likes so well,

10It stoops each morn to take a smell.

Then I'll fetch from the Phœnix' nest

The richest spices and the best,

Precious ointments I will make;

Holy Myrrh and aloes take,

Yea, costly Spikenard in whose smell

The sweetness of all odours dwell.

I'll get a box to keep it in,

Pure as his alabaster skin: