Donnez-moi une bonne digestion,
Seigneur et aussi quelque chose à digérer.
Donnez-moi la santé du corps
avec le sens de la garder au mieux.
Donnez-moi une âme sainte, Seigneur,
afin qu'elle ne s'épouvante pas en voyant le péché,
le gémissement et le soupir.
Ne permettez pas que je me fasse trop de souci
pour cette chose encombrante que j'appelle moi.
Seigneur donnez-moi l'humour pour que je tire
quelque bonheur de cette vie et en fasse profiter les
autres.
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vous demandant pourquoi le curseur de votre lecteur indiquait qu'il y avait
encore de l'espace après le retour du menu. Voici un texte qui n'a
rien à voir avec la prière mentionnée plus haut. Comme
vous le savez, Thomas Moore a été exécuté sous
Henri VIII parce que ce dernier refusait que Moore ne demeure fidèle
au Pape Catholique alors que lui, le Roi, venait de déclarer le
Protestantisme en Angleterre. Voici la dernière lettre de Saint
Thomas Moore écrite le 5 juillet 1535, le dernier jour avant son
exécution
(par respect ce texte est maintenu en anglais)
"Our Lord bless you, good daughter, and your good husband, and your little boy, and all yours, and all my children, and all my god-children and all our friends. Recommend me when ye may to my good daughter Cecily, whom I beseech Our Lord to comfort; and I send her my blessing and to all her children, and pray her to pray for me. I send her a handkercher, and God comfort my good son, her husband. My good daughter Daunce hath the picture in parchment that you delivered me from my Lady Coniers, her name on the back. Show her that I heartily pray her that you may send it in my name to her again, for a token from me to pray for me.
I like special well Dorothy Colly. I pray you be good unto her. I would wot whether this be she that you wrote me of. If not, yet I pray you be good to the other as you may in her affliction, and to my good daughter Jane Aleyn too. Give her, I pray you, some kind answer, for she sued hitherto me this day to pray you be good to her.
I cumber you, good Margaret, much, but I would be sorry if it should be any longer than to-morrow, for it is St. Thomas's even, and the utas of St. Peter; and therefore, to-morrow long I to go to God. It were a day very meet and convenient for me.
I never liked your manner towards me better than when you kissed me
last; for I love when daughterly love and dear charity hath no leisure
to look to worldly courtesy. Farewell, my dear child, and pray for me,
and I shall for you and all your friends, that we may merrily meet in heaven.
I thank you for your great cost. I send now my good daughter Clement her
algorism stone, and I send her and my godson and all hers God's blessing
and mine. I pray you at time convenient recommend me to my good son John
More. I liked well his natural fashion. Our Lord bless him and his good
wife, my loving daughter, to whom I pray him to be good, as he hath great
cause; and that, if the land of mine come to his hands, he break not my
will concerning his sister Daunce. And the Lord bless Thomas and Austin,
and all that they shall have."