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 Pater noster before the lessons.

THEN ye knele downe & say a Pater noster asking lyghte of wysdome and of grace to vnderstonde that shall be redde. & askynge strengthe to withstande the besynesse of youre enemy. that is full besy to lette you by some occasyon from the fruyte of that holy redyng. And therfore after youre Pater noster, and Aue maria ['Our Father' said in silence, except the last two peti∣tions,] whiche ye say in scylence for to gather the more rest∣fully your mynde togyther{punctel} ye say ageyn tow petycions of your Pater noster, all a lowde that is Et ne nos and Sed libera nos, askyng to be delyuerde from the malyce of the fende that he ouercome you not by eny tempta∣cyon

in tyme of redyng. & heryng. And this is done. to shew the nede that ye haue to be spedde of tho tow petycions. that causeth them here to be asked twyes. fyrste priuely. & after openly. for bothe she that redeth [which are said first privately and then openly.] openly. hath nede to be kepte from vanyte. & they that here yt in stillness. haue nede to be kepte from dulnesse. & dystraccion.