call upon your most noble and benign grace. And so Lady, with humble, sorrowful, and dreadful heart and mind, I beseech your most benign grace, mercy, and pity, to set me in the right way of salvation and make me one of the partners of your Blessed Son's precious passion, and of your maidenly and motherly compassions. And as ye became borrow[1] for Mary Egyptian to your Blessed Son, so good Lady be my borrow, that I shall never from henceforth wilfully offend your Blessed Son or you, but sore repent that ever I have heard or did anything that hath displeased your Blessed Son or you; being in will never to return to sin and wretchedness again, but rather to die than wilfully to do anything that would displease my Lord Christ Jesu, or you.
Now Princess, excelling in might and worthiness all creatures, as in dignity; mine heart's Lady, my worldly chief Goods, pray your Son to have mercy upon me, sith in all my greatest mischief[2] to your grace I fly. I can no further resort to find any consolation. And sith my hope and trust is only set in you, be my refuge now in this great tribulation, and cover my sinful Soul with the mantle of your mercies, and set your Son's precious passion between me and eternal damnation. Amen.
The Supplication of Our Lady to Our Lord Jesu HER Son for the Sick Creature
O Jesu, my Lord and God, and my most Blessed Son, in whom is all plenty of grace and of undoubted
