| Nicholson & Lee, eds. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917. |
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| 6. To the Blessed Sacrament |
| By Henry Constable (?1562–?1613) |
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| WHEN thee (O holy sacrificed Lambe) | |
| In severed sygnes I whyte and liquide see, | |
| As on thy body slayne I thynke on thee, | |
| Which pale by sheddyng of thy bloode became. | |
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| And when agayne I doe behold the same | 5 |
| Vayled in whyte to be receav’d of mee, | |
| Thou seemest in thy syndon wrapt to bee | |
| Lyke to a corse, whose monument I am. | |
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| Buryed in me, vnto my sowle appeare, | |
| Pryson’d in earth, and bannisht from thy syght, | 10 |
| Lyke our forefathers who in lymbo were, | |
| Cleere thou my thoughtes, as thou did’st gyve them light, | |
| And as thou others freed from purgyng fyre | |
| Quenche in my hart the flames of badd desyre. | |
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