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Hours in Commemoration of the Guardian Angel, continued.
Matins, continued.
First lesson, Gloriose princeps inter, continued.
...
and expresses his gratitude for the protection the angel offers.
am explicare non tamen despicis luteum et morta\lem hominem natura te minorem ymmo; ad nichi\lum redactum peccatorem
sed a nativitate mea in ute\ro curam fragilitatis mee misericorditer suscepi\sti, meque fideli et sollicita protectione
custodis.\
Tu autem domine.
Responsum.
Te cor meum doce diligere
que fecisti\ michi recolere
caritati grates rependere.
Versus
Dignas laudes\ dona depromere
et instinctus tuos proficere.
Caritati.
Iu\be domine benedicere.
Benediccio.
Angelica cura, sit mors et vita secura. Amen.\
Second lesson,
Quoniam invisibiles adversarii.
The author invokes the Guardian Angel, who protects him against
the confusion, flattery and violence inflicted by his invisible enemies, guides him in his conduct ...
Lectio secunda.
Quoniam invisibiles\ adversarii racionem abducere per as\tucias voluntatem allicere per blan\dicias corpus et vires
opprimere per violencias\ pro posse nituntur tu me diriges [dirigis] et erudis contra\ falsam astuciam exhortaris
et excitas ad bonum\ contra blandicias, ab oppressione defendis con\tra violencias. Tu me iuvas proficere in bono
gra\cie, subvenis ut non cadam in malum culpe, si ca\dam ut resurgam, ne tociens vel in tantum cadam\ quociens
vel ad quantum hostes invitant, nec\ umquam me deseris eciam peccantem; quin sis para-\
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