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O Lorde Iesu Christ I vnhappie sinner most vile and vnthank∣full: Lo, now againe I have offen∣ded thee, by this worde N. or by this sinne N. I haue dishonoured thy maiestie, & haue reiected thee, which aboue all thinges ought to be to me most deare and agreable.
Thou knowest (O Lord) how muche I am yet Carnall, how litle mortyfied, how full of euell con∣cupiscence,
how I am flootinge in externall pleasures, how often en∣wrapped in vayne fansyes, how ne∣gligent in spirituall exercises, how light in laughing and dissolution, how harde & difficult in wepinges and cōpunction, how euell aduised in speakinge, how impatient in ke∣pinge silence, how much gyuen to eating and drinckinge, how deafe and dull in hearinge godly admo∣nitiōs, how attētife to babling, how sluggish to heare dyuine seruice, how sodaynlie I am troubled and letted to doe good, how manye things I purpose wherof I accom∣plishe none.
O my Lord my God, I am full of Sorowe & grief, for that I haue sinned, & also for that I haue too-to litle compunction: I desire with all my harte, that thou wouldeste wounde my hart with the sorowe
of moste perfecte contrition. And for asmuch, as perdition and of∣fence proceedeth from me, and grace and mercy from thee, I pur∣pose from this time forwards (be∣inge assisted by they grace) from hence foorth to keepe my selfe, from all misdeedes, and to auoyde all occasions of sinne. Amen.