Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Harp of Renfrewshire

Pack-mail.
And seeing I have head and heart to pray,
Should not my heart know what my tongue does say ?
For when my tongue talks, if mine heart miscarry,
How quickly may I mar your Ave Mary ?
And I, Sir, having many things to seek,
How shal I speed, not knowing what I speak ?
Priest.
Because that God all tongues doth understand,
Yea knows the very thoughts before the hand.
Pack-man.
Then if I think one thing, and speak another,
I will both crab Christ, and our Ladie his mother ;
For when I pray for making up my pack, man.
Your Ave Mary is not worth a plack, man.
Priest.
Thy Latine prayers are but general heads.
Containing every special that thou needs ;
The Latine serves us for a Liturgie,
As medicines direct the Chirurgie :
And in this language Mass is said and sung :
For private things pray in thy mother tongue.
Pack-man.
Then must I have a tongue, Sir John, for either,
One for the Mother, another for the Father.
Priest.
Thinks thou the Mother does not know such smal things I
Christ is her Son, man, and he tells her all things.
Pack-man.
But, good Sir John, where learned our Lady her Latinos,
For in her dayes were neither Mass nor Matines,
Nor yet one Priest that Latine then did speak,
For holy words were then all Hebrew and Greek ;
She never Avas at Rome, nor kist Popes toe,
How came she by tlie Mass, then -would T kno ?