?a?F?C?. 17 observed, that the Hymns on the Nativity, Annun- ciation, and Visitation, of our Blessed Lady, a? also tho?e to St? Anne, St? Stephen, and St? Jolm the Evangelist, are from the Monastic Breviary of Cluny; tho?e na the Purification and the Assump- tion, the Hymn to Jesus, and that for Sunday Morning, from the Parisian Breviary; and tho?e to St? Joseph, St? Peter, St. Paul, and St? Plus the Fifr?, from the .Rozolta delle I?utul?e?. Every hymn, without exception, ha? been newly translated from the Latin; and there is reason to believe, that ne?ly half the hymns h?e given have never before appeared in the English tongue. As respect? the Hymns in general, it may be useful to remark, that the greater number of them appear to have been originally written, not with a view to private reading, but for the purpose of being sung to the be?tutlfal ecclesiastical melodies by Mo- nastic and other Religious Bodies at their Office in Choir. This circumstance will serve to explain a few scattered expressions, which otherwise might ? unreal; as, for instance, where allusions occur to the practice of rising at midnight to sing praises to (?d ;---aud if, on the one hand, some few of the Hymns may so far appear le? ad?pted to the use of 2
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