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Laus Tibi, Christe
Next to S. Notker himself, the most famous writer of the Proses named from him, was Godescalcus—to be carefully distinguished from his predestinarian namesake. The following sequence for S. Mary Magdalene is his composition; and has an interesting notice in the Lives of the Brothers of the Common Life, by Thomas à Kempis. It occurs in that of Lubert ten Bosche.
"It fell out also that Master Lubert was seized with the same plague. And, behold, in the month of July, three days before the feast of the blessed Mary Magdalene, he fell ill, and took to his bed, and said that he was not long for this world. We, on the other hand, laboured with many prayers, and sought remedies from God, and from intelligent surgeons, because his life was desirable to all.
"But his prayers were heard beyond ours, and they were full of desires to be admitted among the heavenly citizens. One of the brethren said, 'We shall not be separated so quickly, but we shall hold our conversations in the room of Master Florentius.' 'No,' said he, 'not any more here, but in the heavenly places with the Saints,' for he desired to depart, and to be with Christ. On the feast of S. Mary Magdalene he
