Vitas patrum.

¶Of theyr handy werke / and wherfo¦re pryme / tyerce / sexte / none / & the other hours ben songen in the chirche begyn¦nyng. Ita nam{que}. Caplm .xix.

THese brethern ben so dylygent to theyr bodely werke after theyr seruyce doon / that they leue not to thynke on god. How well that they werke with theyr hondes. And at tyrce / sexte / and none they saye but thre psalmes oonly in folowynge Danyell the prophete / the whiche was thre tymes in the cenacle and prayed god deuoutly. Furthermore these psal∣mes they saye not without cause atte this houre there. For the promesses ma¦de to thauncyent and olde faders haue be sente in some of these houres. Fyrst the holy ghoost was sente on withson∣daye vpon the appostles at the hour of tyerce / and gaaf to theym to speke all maner of langages. At the hour of serte our sauyour and redemer Ihesus for the redempcyon of mankynde wol¦de be nayled and crucefyed on the crosse

In the same hour was sente a vessell to saynt Pyeter / in whiche was contey¦ned the puryfycacōn of all theym that lyue / and was sente by four begynnyn¦ges of heuē. And by this vessell we vn∣derstonde the gospell. At the houre of none god rendred his spyryte on y^e cros¦se / and in the same hour he descended to helle for to take out the soules that were therin / and enlumyned with his clerenes the derkenes of the sayd helle / and restored to his auncyent Royalme that is paradyse. In this same hour Cornelius knewe that his prayer was accepted to god. Thenne it appereth that the appostles haue not Instytuted without cause these hours here in the chirche / and that we ought well to en∣syewe & folowe theym to the ende that in the same houres we may prayse and honour god / & to serue hym deuoutly.