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Here after foloweth the golden Pater noster of deuocyon.

The father of heuen omnipotent
Of nought all this worlde dyd create
In paradyse he made Adam a pure innocent
And for his comforte Eue to hym was assacyate
The serpent by fraude made them obstynate
Wherby they loste their mansyon ioye and blysse
Tyll by thy mercy they were regenerate
Pater noster quies in celis
O blessed lorde of thy grete boūtye & goodnesse
That sent thyne owne sonne to be incarnate
The orygynall synne of Adam to redresse
By vertue of deth of Chryst immaculate
Which is our brother by proue cartyfycate
And thou our father throughout chrystendome
wherfore let vs merely without debate
Synge, Sanctificetur nomen tuum
Chryst Iesu our kynge and his mother dere
Be in our nede our socour and comforte
Oure soules from synne to preserue clere
That the flame of charyte in vs reporte
To whom that we may resorte
with blysful armony bothe all and summe
Swete Iesus for vs exhorte
That vnto vs, Adueniat regnum tuum


Infuse vs with grace lorde in contynaunce
In euery malady, pouerty and tribulacyon
Perfite pacyence to kepe thy perseueraunce
For any wrongfull trouble or vexacyon
That we without grudge or exclamacyon
Say and pray, Fiat voluntas tuas
Hygh and low thy myght operacyon
So be it, sicut in celo et in terra
Upon {s}here thursday thy dyscyples thou fedde
In fourme of brede wyth thyne owne deite
By vertue of the wordes of thy godhed
Bade them thyne owne body accipite
And eate, which for you berrayed shalbe
A preseruaty{f} agaynst deth mooste holsome
Our peticyon good lorde, da nobis hodye
That same, panem nostrum cotidianum
Whan mortall sinne had vs deuoured
And haue forgoten thy holy conuersacyon
yet let vs not vtterly be confounded
whom thou demyd by thy byter passion
But wasshe vs with penaunce by full contrycyō
Thou one and thre trinitas sancta
whan we requyre the by proclamacyon
Et dimitte nobis debita nostra.
yf any creature hath vs offended
And trespasset forgyue we all those
That theyr offence may be amēded
Our mercy and pyte to them dysclose


That whan to god our passage purpose
That of his mercy habounde yt we may not mys
Forgyue vs good lorde, sicut et nos
Dimittimus debitoribus nostris
Another peticion we aske our father
That we be not ouercome by temptacion
But we to Chryst our owne broder
Call for ayde and obtayne remissyon
And of our synnes clene to haue absolucyon
By meryte of the bryght sterre of Betheleem
To whom we pray with humble deuocyon
Et ne nos inducas in temptacionem
The father, the sonne, and the holy ghost
Thre persones vndeuyded, and one in essence
Make in vs trynyte by thy power moost
Thy body, thy soule, thy godhed in presence
So conserue vs here in thy absence
To vse well fyue and obserue tenne
That deedly synne combre not our conscyence
Sed libera nos a malo. Amen
Finis.