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 let it ward me in body and soul, and shew thy healing forth in me: Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Then shall he genuflect, and take the paten with Christ's Body: and with great reverence and humility say:

I will receive the Bread of heaven and call upon the Name of the Lord.

Then he beats his breasts thrice, and says at each: 

Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only and my soul shall be healed.

Afterward he signs himself with the Sacrament, saying: 

The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve my body and soul unto everlasting life. Amen.

''And reverently receives the Body. ''

''Then omitting all else which is wont to be said before taking the Sacrament of the Precious Blood, he forth with consumes with reverence the particle of the Host with the wine. Then he washes his fingers in the accustomed manner, and takes the purification. Afterward, bowing down in the midst of the Altar, he says: ''

RANT, O Lord, that what our mouths have taken, our minds may receive unalloyed, and what comes to us in time may be our healing in the endless years.

And nothing further is said, nor the Postcommunion, nor is the blessing given: but making a reverence to the Altar, the Priest and Ministers depart: and Evensong is said without the chant: and the Altar is laid bare.