"Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling"

When I wrote a post about the Biblical sources for "Now, My Tongue, the Mystery Telling" last year, I also noticed a few musical features to note.  The text is sung to the tune "Grafton."  Here are the last two phrases:

The second verse ends with the lines "Till He closed with wondrous ending / His most patient life of woe."  The words "most patient" are sung with melismas (Bb Ab and G Bb Eb Ab, respectively), giving a sense of this superlative degree.

The third verse ends with the lines "Then, more precious food supplying, / Gives Himself with His own hand."  Similar to the above, here "more" is sung with a melisma (Bb Ab), giving a sense of comparative degree.