after this manner with one who loves Thee so much.  This and the like have come into my heart to say: though my bed in hell better becomes me than so to speak to my Lord.  At the same time, the love I bear my Lord sometimes so consumes me that I am beside myself, till I scarce know what I

say or do; and then I find myself making such unbecoming complaints that I am amazed our Lord endures them at my hands.  Eternal praise to so good a Lord!