Catharine herself had collected them
into a book, and with her own hand she had given to the book this
title: "Lamentations of a Sinner."
Catharine had wept much as she penned these "Lamentations"; for in
many places the manuscript was illegible, and her tears had
obliterated the characters.
John Heywood kissed the spots where the traces of her tears
remained, and whispered: "The sinner has by her suffering been
glorified into a saint; and these poems are the cross and the
monument which she has prepared for her own grave. I will set up
this cross, that the good may take comfort, and the wicked flee from
it." And he did so. He had the "Lamentations of a Sinner" printed;
and this book was the fairest monument of Catharine.
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