LXXXVI.

_Dominus asino vehitur._ Matt. xxi. 7.

Ille igitur vilem te, te dignatur asellum,

O non vectura non bene digne tua!

Heu, quibus haud pugnat Christi patientia monstris!

Hoc quod sic fertur, hoc quoque ferre fuit.

_The Lord borne on the ass._

Does He, base ass, thus deign to honour thee,

Unworthy thus to bear th' incarnate God?

Alas, Thy patience strangely tried I see,

Thee carried thus who bear'st sin's awful load! B.

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