The myroure of Oure Ladye, containing a devotional treatise on divine service, with a translation of the offices used by the sisters of the Brigittine monastery of Sion, at Isleworth, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Edited from the original black-letter text of 1530 A.D., by John Henry Blunt.

¶ Of the Lawdes.

Ad laudes, Some tyme mattyns were sayde by them∣selfe [for anciently they were separ∣ate services, Mat∣tins being said in the night, and Lauds at day dawn.] in the nyghte. and laudes by them selfe at morow tyde. and the same ys yet vsed of some relygyons. and therfore laudes begynne with Deus in adiutorium, as other houres do. By matyns that are sayde in the nyghte ys vnderstonded the olde lawe. that was all in figures of darckenesse. And by laudes that ar sayd in the morrow tyde. ys vnderstonded the new lawe that ys in lyghte of grace. Also matins betoken the

heuynes [Folio .lxvj.] that was in tyme of our lordes passyon. And the laudes betoken the ioye of hys resurreccyon. [Mattins betoken the passion. Lauds betoken the resurrection.] whyche endureth vnto the ende of the worlde. And therfore laudes are as moche to saye as praysynges. for we that be borne in thys tyme of grace. and also of endelesse ioye. oughte to prayse god therfore and in [Souls live now in the joy of the resurrection,] praysyng to thancke hym. for all hys gyftes. bothe of nature & of grace. and also of endelesse ioye. whiche ys now redy to the soulles of all that wylle dispose them therto and at the ende of thys tyme. the bodyes [and bodies will be upraised by it to joy unending.] of them shal be arered to endelesse ioye also.