The Refuge and Stay

V. The Lord himself created her in the Holy Ghost.

R. And poured her out among all his works.

V.

O Lady, hear, &c. (with the Prayer and Ver sicles> as at p. 598.) AT TERCE. y. Domina, in adjutorium V.

O Lady, make speed to meum intende. befriend me.

R. Me de manu hostium po- R. From the hands of the tenter defende. enemy mightily defend me.

V. Gloria Patri. Alleluia.

V. Glory be to the Father, &c. Alleluia. Salve, area feederis, Thronus Salomonis, Arcus pulcher cetheris, Rubus visionis : HYMN.

Hail, Solomon’s throne ! Pure ark of the law ! Fair rainbow ! and bush. Which the Patriarch saw I 600 OFFICE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Virga frondens germinis : Vellus Gedeonis : Porta clausa numinis, Favusque Samsonis. Decebat tam nobilem Natum, praecavere Ab originali Labe Matris Evae Almam, quam elegerat, Genitricem vere, Nulli prorsus sinens Culpae subjacere. Arnen.

V. Ego in altissimis habito. It. Et thronus meus in co- lumna nubis. Y. Domina, exaudi, &c. (p. 598, cum Oratione ut supra) HaO, Ged eon’s fleece !

Hail, blossoming rod ! Samson’s sweet honeycomb! Portal of God ! Well fitting it was, That a Son so divine Should preserve from all touch Of original sin; Nor suffer by smallest Defect to be stain’d. That Mother, whom he For himself had ordain’d. Amen