The Recommendation

These houres, and that which hovers o’re my End,  

Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend.  

Take Both to Thine Account, that I and mine  

In that Hour, and in these, may be all thine.  

That as I dedicate my devoutest Breath          

To make a kind of Life for my lord’s Death,  

So from his living, and life-giving Death,  

My dying Life may draw a new, and never fleeting Breath.