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no server, the priest goes to the credence, or to the gradine on the Epistle-side (if the cruets be thereon) and brings the wine-cruet to the midst and pours a little wine into the chalice. Then he says the prayer, "Grant, O Lord" etc., moves the wine gently about in the chalice, and then drinks it, holding chalice and paten as above directed. Having set down the chalice upon the corporal, the priest takes it up again with the last three fingers of each hand about the cup, and holding his thumbs and forefingers over the cup, he carries it to the Epistle-side where he holds it so that the server may pour a little wine and then at once some water over his, (the priest's) thumbs and forefingers. Then the priest places the chalice upon the altar, dries his thumbs and forefingers with the purificator and says, privately, the prayer, "Let thy body," etc. Then he places the chalice so that he may reach it from the midst, and goes to the midst. If he has no server, the priest will get the cruets and place them within his reach on the Epistle-side of the altar, and make the pourings for himself into the chalice as it stands on the corporal. Then holding the purificator between the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, so that it will hang over the back of the hand, and taking up the chalice, by the knop, with his right hand, he receives the ablutions, meanwhile holding the purificator under his chin. Then holding the chalice by the knop with his left hand, the priest wipes the outside and the inside of the cup with the purificator. The chalice is then set down upon the corporal, the folded purificator hung over the cup as it was when brought to the altar, the paten placed on the purificator, and the pall upon the paten. Then, resting his left hand on the altar, at the left of the corporal, the priest, taking the chalice, by the knop, with his right hand, lifts it up and sets it down beyond the corporal on the Epistle-side of the altar. The priest then folds up the corporal,—the forepart over the middle, the backpart over the forepart, the right-hand part over the middle, and the left-hand part over all,—and puts it into the burse which he places on the altar in the midst. Then he covers the chalice with the veil (as it was when brought to the altar), places the burse on the veil, and then taking the chalice by the knop with his left hand and resting his right hand on the burse, he sets the chalice in the midst,