Protect us at the hour of death,
And bear to heav'n our parting breath.
May age to age for ever fing
The virgin's Son and angel's King,
And praise with the celeftial hoft.

The Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft.. Amen. The Anth. We run after..

Pfalm 122. Ad'te Levavi.

This pfalm contains an excellent prayer made to God by the Juft, when they are oppreffed by their enemies.

O thee have I lifted up my eyes; who dwelleft in the heavens.

Behold, as the eyes of fervants, are on the hands of their mafters;

As the eyes of the hand-maid, on the hands of her miftrefs: fo are our eyes to our Lord God, until he have mercy on us, because we are overwhelmed with contempt.

Because our fouls are overwhelmed; being an object of reproach to fuch as abound, and of contempt to the proud.

Glory be to the Eather, &c.

Pfalm 123. Nifi quia Dominus.

This pfalm appears to be a thanksgiving, which the propbet put into the mouth of the Jews, after their return from Babylon.

UT that our Lord was with us, let f rael now faw, but that our Lord was with us.

When men rofe up against us, perhaps they had fwallowed us alive..

When their fury was raised against us, perhaps the waters had fwallowed us up.

Our foul has paffed through a torrent, perhaps our foul has paffed through an intolera

ble water.

Bleffed be our Lord, who has not given us for a prey to their teeth.

Our foul as a fparrow, is delivered from the fnare of the fowlers.

The fnare is broken, and we are delivered. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

Pfalm 124. Qui confidunt in Domino.

In this Pfalm, God declares bimfelf the Protector of bis People of Ifrael, and promifeth to fupport them against all their enemies, which chiefly is to be underflood of the Church, which comprebends the true people of God, and which our Lord bas promised to preferue to the end of the world.

HEY that truft in our Lord, are as

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Mount Sion; he fhall not be moved for ever that dwells in Jerufalem.

Mountains round about it, and our Lord round about his people, from henceforth,. now, and for ever.

Because our Lord will not leave the rod of finners on the lot of the juft; that the just extend not their hands to iniquity.

Do well, O Lord, to the good and right of heart.

But our Lord will lead out thofe that decline to perverfe ways, with them that work iniquity, that peace may be upon Ifrael. Glory be to the Father, &c.

The Anth. We run after the odour of thy ointments, young virgin's have loved thee exceedingly.

The Chapter. Ecclef. 24.

HAVE taken root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full affembly of faints. R. Thanks be to God. V. Bleffed art thou among women.

R. And bleffed is the Fruit of thy Womb. Lord have mercy on us. Chrift have mercy on us. Lord have mercy on us. V. Lord hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come unto thee.

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Let us Pray.

TRENGTHEN us, O God of mercy, against all our weakness, and grant that we who celebrate the memory of the bleffed Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord, may by the affiftance of her prayers, forfake all our iniquities Through the fame Jefus Chrift our Lord, &c.

V. Lord hear my prayer.

R. And let my cry come to thee.

V. Bless we our Lord.

R. Thanks be to God.

May the fouls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, reft in peace. R. Amen.

At the NINTH HOUR..
Hail Mary.

NCLINE unto my aid,, O God!

R. O Lord make hafte to help me. Glory be to the Father, &c. Alleluia.

The HYMN. Memento rerum Conditor.

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EMEMBER, you, O gracious Lord,
Th' eternal God's co-equal word,.
In Virgin's womb a creature made,
Our nature wore for nature's aid
O happy Mary, chose to be
Mother of grace and clemency!:
Protect us at the hour of death,
And bear to heav'n our parting breath.
May age to age for ever fing
The Virgin's fon and angel's King,
And praise with the celeftial hoft

The Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.
The Anth. Thou art fair.

Pfalm 125. In convertendo Dominus. This Pfalm feems to relate to the time, when the Jews were brought back from the firft Captivity of Babylon, and therefore the Author congratulates the people upon the great. nefs of fo unexpected a felicity; after which he prays God to finifh the work he has begun, and foretells that happy days are at laft to fucceed.

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HEN our Lord turned back the captivity of Sion, we were made as men

comforted.

Then was our mouth replenished with joy, and our tongue with joyfulness.

Then shall they fay among the Gentiles, the Lord has done great things for them. Our Lord has done great things for us, we are made joyful.

Turn our captivity, O Lord, as a torrent in the South.

They that fow in tears, fhall reap in joyfulness.

Going out they went, and wept, cafting their feed.

But returning, they fhall come with joyfulness, carrying their fheaves.

Glory be to the Father, &c.

Pfalm 126. Nifi Dominus.

This Pfàlm declares that vain are the labours of Men, unless God gives fuccefs to them.

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F our Lord builds not the house, they have laboured in vain that built it.

If our Lord keeps not the city, he watches in vain that keeps it.

It is in vain for you to rife before light: rife after ye have fat, you who eat the bread of forrow.

When he fhall give fleep to his beloved, behold children are an inheritance from our Lord and the Fruit of the Womb is a reward.

As arrows in the hand of the mighty, fo are the children of them that are rejected.

Bleffed is the man that has filled his defire of them he fhall not be confounded, when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate. Glory be to the Father, &c.