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 then, as it is read, S. Ambrose said: 'Te Deum laudamus,' and S. Austin answered: 'Te dominum confitemur,' and so they two together ordained and made this hymn and sung it unto the end. And so witnesseth it Honorius in his book which is named, The Mirror of the Church. And in some other old books, the title of this hymn or psalm is entitled: The canticle of Ambrose and of Angustin.

And anon he was marvellously confirmed in the faith catholic, and forsook all the hope that he had in the world, and renounced the schools that he ruled. And he showeth in his book of Confessions how he was from thenceforth achauffed in the love of God, saying: 'Lord, thou hast throughpierced my heart with thy charity, and I have borne thy words fixed in mine entrails, and the ensamples of thy servants, which thou hast made of black, white and shining, and of dead, living; and of corrupt thoughts thou makest fair, and givest high understanding in heavenly things. I mounted up into the hill of weeping, and thou gavest to me, singing the canticle of grees, sharp arrows and coals wasting; ne I was not in those days fulfilled in thy marvellous sweetness for to consider the height of the divine counsel upon the health of the lineage human. How much have I wept in thy hymns and canticles sweetly sounding, and by the voice of thy Church I have been moved eagerly: the voices have run in mine ears, and thy truth hath dropped in mine heart, and then tears have run down and I was well eased with them. And I cried with an high cry of mine heart: O in pace, O in id ipsum; O thou that sayest I shall sleep