The Lay folks mass book, or, The manner of hearing mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in four texts, and offices in English according to the use of York, from manuscripts of the xth to the xvth century . uses, whether of monks or friars, were allowed to break their fastbefore vespers. The hour of mass was deferred until then, and Sloth takesadvantage of the evening mass,(*) and goes to the Friars. Cf. The Capitular of Theodulph, quoted above, p. 235, and in its English form printed by Thorpe, as the Ecclesiastical Institutes : xxxix. Ut Jejunium non solvat^ir ante Vesperas l^at i


The Lay folks mass book, or, The manner of hearing mass, with rubrics and devotions for the people, in four texts, and offices in English according to the use of York, from manuscripts of the xth to the xvth century . uses, whether of monks or friars, were allowed to break their fastbefore vespers. The hour of mass was deferred until then, and Sloth takesadvantage of the evening mass,(*) and goes to the Friars. Cf. The Capitular of Theodulph, quoted above, p. 235, and in its English form printed by Thorpe, as the Ecclesiastical Institutes : xxxix. Ut Jejunium non solvat^ir ante Vesperas l^at is riht J^ate tefter non- sange mon meessan jehyre . and sefter Jjsere masssan his œfen-sang on j^a tid. It is right that after none-song mass be heard, and after the mass, even song at the time, that is, at the same time, for in Lent mass and vespers were said as a continuous service, sine campanaium pnlsatione,^^ that is, without a fresh call to church. See Ancient La7vs, II, 436, 437. Cf. Martene, I, 108. Voyages Litnrgiqves, 203, 216, 292. Iliss. Sar. 356. Miss. Ehor. 125. Grancolas, Liturgie, 177. (?) Are you at leisure, holy father, now, Or shall I come to you at evening mass ? Eomeo and Juliet, IV, 314 THE LAY-FOLKS MASS-BOOK. 4 Precliours. Eche of the prêcheurs schal, be-sydc the sermon da}-,haue thre hole days at lest oute of the qnjer to recorde hyssermon.—Aungier, History of Syon Monastery^ p. 391. 60, B. 626. sJdlle. It is somewhat unaccountable to find this word,which appears to have been in such common use as in the senseof reason, miswritten swilk and suche, as it is in C and F, to theutter destruction of the sense. The mistake must have been madeby a copyist before the recensions represented by C and F weremade, the suche being probably a southern gloss of a northernblunder. Cf. and Ipat is skille.—Vernon, ante, p. 139, 1. 405. Me thynk pan ])at it es skille and right.—P. C. 2052. Allé thyng he ordaynd aftir is wille,In sere kyndes, for certayn skyll


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