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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

A Prayer

XIV. Sir Nicholas Breton

PLANTE, Lorde, in me the tree of godly lyfe;

Hedge me about with the strong fence of faith:

If thee it please, use eke thy proyning knife,

Least that, oh Lord! as a good gardiner saith,

If suckers draw the sappe from roots on hie,

Perhaps, in tyme, the top of tree may die.

Let, Lord, this tree be set within thy garden-wall

Of Paradise, where growes no one ill sprigg at all.