... no pere] This is struck through with a heavy black-line.
boue] Last letter blotched.
colectour] Struck through with several thin lines.
[1.] Compare with Russell, p. 70-71, and Wynkyn de Worde, p. 170-1. It differs little from them.
(From the Balliol MS. 354, leaf 2.)
[“These graces are the usual ones still said in all colleges and religious communities abroad, and are for some part those given at the end of each of the four volumes into which our Roman Breviaries for the year are divided. As a youth, while studying at Rome, I used to hear them in our hall; and, knowing them by heart, never found them too long.”—Daniel Rock, D.D.]
A general Grace.
The grace that shuld be said affore mete & after mete/ałł the tymes in the yere.
Benedicite; dominus. Oculi omnium in te sperant, domine / et tu das escam illorum in tempore oportuno. Aperis tu manum tuam / & Imples omne Animal benediccione.
Gloria patri & filio: & spiritui sancto. Sicut erat in principio, & nunc, et semper: & in secula seculorum. Lord, have mercy upon us. Amen. kyrieleyson, christeleyson, kyrieleyson: pater noster. Et ne nos: Sed libera nos: Oremus.