_Tetigit linguam ejus, &c. ... et loquebatur ... et praecepit illis ne
cui dicerent: illi vero eo magis praedicabant._ Marc. vii. 33, 36.
Christe, jubes muta ora loqui; muta ora loquuntur:
Sana tacere jubes ora; nec illa tacent.
Si digito tunc usus eras, muta ora resolvens;
Nonne opus est tota nunc tibi, Christe, manu?
_The dumbe healed, and the people enjoyned silence._
Christ bids the dumbe tongue speake; it speakes: the sound
Hee charges to be quiet; it runs round.
If in the first He us'd His finger's touch,
His hand's whole strength here could not be too much. CR.