The Lord's Most Holy Crown of Thorns – II

Here are the proper hymns for the feast of the Crown of Thorns (kept on the 24th of April in the Dominican Rite), which I think are quite fine, although I can't spare the time to translate them, alas – first, for Matins and Vespers:

Æternæ Regi gloriæ 

Devota laudum cantica

Fideles solvant hodie 

Pro Corona Dominica.

Coronat Regem omnium

Corona contumeliæ,

Cujus nobis opprobrium 

Coronam confert gloriæ.

De spinarum aculeis 

Christi Corona plectitur, 

Qua ministris tartareis 

Mundi potestas tollitur. 

Corona Christi capitis, 

Sacro perfusa sanguine, 

Pœnis solutis debitis, 

Reos purgat a crimine. 

Laus Christo, Regi gloriæ, 

Pro Coronæ virtutibus, 

Qua nos reformans gratiæ 

Coronet in cælestibus.  Amen.

And at Lauds:

Lauda, fidelis concio,

Spinae trophæum inclytum,

Per quam perit perditio

Vitæque datur meritum.

Nos a puncturis liberat

Æterni Patris Filius,

Dum spinis pungi tolerat,

Spinarum culpæ nescius.

Dum spinarum aculeum

Christus pro nobis pertulit,

Per diadema spineum

Vitæ coronam contulit.

Plaudat turba fidelium,

quod per spinæ ludibrium

purgat Creator omnium

spineti nostri vitium.

Laus Christo, Regi gloriæ,

Pro Coronæ virtutibus,

Qua nos reformans gratiæ

Coronet in cælestibus.  Amen.