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Cranmer's monthly cursus from the Book of Common Prayer (1549): the 150 psalms in order over thirty days, a morning and an evening portion each day, Psalm 119 by its acrostic sections, and the thirty-first day repeating the thirtieth, as the Prayer Book directs — joined by the modern custom of reading the proverb that matches the day of the month. Between and after them stand the fixed hours, the same every day and meant to be learned by heart: the Prayer Book's noonday psalms at midday, and at night Compline's unchanging three, prayed since Benedict.

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