Book II, 32: A forme of Prayer

If thou wouldst learne, not knowing how, to pray,
Adde but a Faith, and say as Beggers say;
Master, I'm poore, and blinde, in great distresse;
Hungry and ame, and cold, and comfortlesse:
O, succour him, that's graveld on the Shelf
Of payne, and want, and cannot help himself;
Cast downe thine eye upon a wretch and take
Some pitty on me for sweet Iesus sake:
But hold! Take heed this Clause be not put in,
I never begg'd before, nor will agin:
Note this withall, That Beggers move their plaints
At all times Ore tenus, not by Saints.