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Ps. xxiii. 10.

Luke i. 78, 79. the Servants of the Lord of the Virtues,[1] for He is the King of Glory. We have heard that thou art the Queen of the Virtues, and we have proved it by experience. Wherefore, prostrate at thy Feet, we humbly beseech thee to abide with us, and to light our Way to the King of Glory, as thou wast unto Him the Way, when, a Day-Spring

  1. Though the Author here quotes Psalm xxiii. 10, "Dominus Virtutum," he is, from the context which follows, obviously not referring to the Lord of Hosts or Sabaoth, nor to the Virtues as one of the Orders of Angels, but to God as the Lord of the Moral Perfections.