Thursday before Easter

A Holy Sacrament this Day
To vs thou didst, oh LORD, bequeath;
That by the same preserue we may,
A blest memoriall of thy Death;
Whereof, oh, let vs so partake,
We may with Thee one body make.

Thy Holy-Supper being done,
(The last which thou vouchsafedst here)
By Thee the feet of eu'ry one
Of thy Disciples washed were;
To which Humility of thine,
Our hauty mindes doe thou encline.

The rest of that Day thou didst vse,
To pray, to comfort, and aduise:
None might (when thou wert gone) abuse
Thy Friends, or make of them a prize;
Yet, when thy pleasure thou hadst said,
By one of thine thou wert betrayd.

And loe, that night they all did flye,
Who sate so kindely by thy side;
Eu'n he, that for thy loue would dye,
With oathes, and curses, thee denide;
Which to thy soule more nigh did goe,
Then all the wrongs thy Foes could doe.

Sweet Iesus teach vs to conceiue,
How neere vnto thy heart it strooke,
When thy Beloued thee did leaue,
And thou didst backe vpon him looke;
We may hereafter nigh thee keepe,
And for our past denials weepe.

Yea, let each passage of this Day.
Within our hearts be grauen so,
That minde them we for euer may
And still thy promise trust vnto:
So our affections shall to thee,
In life, and death vnchanged be.