text: The author who is credited with translating the prayer from the original Acta Sanctorum and bringing it to public notice, was Cecil Headlam in 1898. The following version in the  "Prayers of Saints" is quite different from the one that is familiar today :
  THE DYING PRAYER OF S. RICHARD,
  Bishop of Chichester.
  LORD JESU CHRIST, I thank Thee for
  all the blessings Thou hast given me,
  and for all the sufferings and shame Thou
  didst endure for me, on which account that
  pitiable cry of sorrow was Thine : " Behold and
  see, if there was any sorrow like unto My
  sorrow ! " Thou knowest, Lord, how willing
  I should be to bear insult, and pain, and death
  for Thee ; therefore have mercy on me,  for to
  Thee do I commend my spirit. Amen
  The prayer was adapted for the song "Day by Day" in the musical Godspell (1971), with music by Stephen Schwartz. The words used, with a few embellishments, were based on the following from  "Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition":
  Day by day,
  Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray:
  To see thee more clearly,
  Love thee more dearly,
  Follow thee more nearly,