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the Pope returneth him for answer.

(which is a new text of Holy Scripture, of the Pope's own canonization,)

The gloss upon this decretal, layeth down the reason of this mutation a little more roundly:

And Alphonsus Mendoza telleth us, that the old prayer was "deservedly" disused, and this other substituted in the room thereof:

Which prayer, indeed, was to be found heretofore in modernioribus sacramentariis, as Pope Innocent speaketh, and in the Roman missals that were published before the Council of Trent, as, namely, in that which was printed at Paris, Anno 1529; but in the newly reformed missal, wherewith, it seemeth, Mendoza was not so well acquainted as with his scholastical controversies, it is put out again, and another prayer for Leo put in; that by the celebration of those

Neither is there any more wrong done unto St. Leo, in praying for him after this manner, than unto all the rest of his fellows in that other prayer of the Roman Liturgy:

and nothing so much as is done unto all the faithful deceased, when, in their masses for the dead, they say daily,