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 clerks and laity of the middle ages, so that it found its way into the office-books of the Church. O Georgi Martyr inclyte, Te decet laus ct gloria, Predotatum militia; Per quern puella regia, Existens in tristitia, Coram Dracone pessimo, Salvata est. Ex animo Te rogamus corde intimo, Ut cunctis cum fidelibus Cœli jungamur civibus Nostris ablatis sordibus: Et simul cum lætitia Tecum simus in gloria; Nostraque reddant labia Laudes Christo cum gratia, Cui sit honos in secula. Thus sang the clerks from the Sarum “Horæ B. Mariæ,” on S. George’s day, till the reformation of the Missals and Breviaries by Pope Clement VII., when the story of the dragon was cut out, and S. George was simply acknowledged as a martyr, reigning with Christ. His introit was from Ps. Ixiii. The Collect, “God, who makest us glad through the merits and intercession of blessed George the martyr, mercifully grant that we who ask through him Thy good things may obtain the gift of Thy grace.” The Epistle,