XXX.

_Domine, non solum pedes, sed et caput, &c._ Joan. xiii. 9.

En caput, atque suis quae plus satis ora laborant

Sordibus; huc fluvios, ais [et] adde tuos.

Nil opus est; namque haec, modo tertius occinat ales,

E fluviis fuerint, Petre, lavanda suis.

_Lord, not my feet only, but also my head, &c._

'Behold my head, behold my face,

Which sin's filthiest stains deface:

Here pour Thy streams:' thou say'st to Me.

But, Peter, needs not this for thee;

For ere the cock a third time crow,

Rivers of its own tears must flow. G.

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