Give us
courage, gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften to us our
enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may
not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be
brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all
changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one
another.
