CI.

_Coepit lacrymis rigare pedes ejus, et capillis extergebat._ Luc. vii.

37.

Unda sacras sordes lambit placidissima: flavae

Lambit et hanc undam lucida flamma comae.

Illa per has sordes it purior unda; simulque

Ille per has lucet purior ignis aquas.

_She began to wash His feet with teares, and wipe them with the haires

of her head._

Her eyes' flood lickes His feets' faire staine;

Her hair's flame lickes up that againe.

This flame thus quencht hath brighter beames;

This flood thus stained fairer streames. CR.

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