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 278 Journal of Philology. and after v. 40, it also omits tho verse, In te Domino speravi: non confundar in ccternum. And the same verses are omitted in the Antiphonarium Benchorense. These are therefore, in all probability, interpolations of a later date. The last is obviously taken from Ps. xxxi. 1; or Ps. lxxi. 1, and Miserere nostri is from Tob. viii. 10 (Vulg.) The other verso Dignare Domine, occurs, as Ussher has remarked, in tho Hynxnus Vespertinus, which he has published in his Tract de Symbolo Romanoo Ecclesia?, p. 43. (Works, Elrington's Edit. Vol. vii. 337). 42. Te patrem] What follows, although by the same scribe, and written at the same time with tho rest, is in a somewhat different and more angular character, and was not therefore intended as a part of the Te Deutn. It is a separate hymn of praise used probably in the ser- vices of the ancient Irish Church in conjunction with the Te Deiim, as a more distinct profession of faith, in opposition to Arianism. As the congregation were called upon to celebrate the praises of God in this hymn by the introductory verse (Ps. cxiii. 1) "Laudato pucri Dominum, &c," so at the close of the hymn they add this short praise of tho Trinity, just as we now repeat the Gloria Patri at the end of each psalm. And it is remarkable that the title, ascribing the hymn to St Augustine and Ambrose, is in the same angular character as the hymn Te patrem adoramus at tho end ; the verse Laudate pueri, with tho Te Deum itself, being in tho round and bold Irish characters found in our Irish Biblical MSS. of tho 6th and 7th centuries. [It is worth noticing that the Cambridge MS. (Ff. I. 13, p. 525), to which we are indebted for the Litany printed on another page, contains also a copy of the Te Deum, and that the reading which it furnishes is munerari.] Correspondence. I. Quotations in Wheatly. (No. I. p. 134.) (1) " The primitive Rule of Reformation" is the name of a Sermon by Dr Pierce. (2) The Roman Catholic "Practical Catechism" was written by Gother. (Dodd, in. 483.) (3) The reference to the " Defence of tho Eiposition of tho Order of the Church of England, p. 45," may be verified by considering that it was intended to relate to page 45 of Archbishop Wake's "Exposition of