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IV. O'CLOCK. Second Alectrophone or Nightwatch. 

 XVI. of the Astronomical Day. 



Obs, In the middle of summer many plants that open at sunrise 

 now expand their flowers, and the birds are already singing very 

 lively. 



Cocks crow much at this time, though some authors regard the 

 Nightwatches at midnight, two o'clock, four o'clock, and sunrise. 



Kircher, in his Musurgia Universalis, Romue 1650, page 30, has 

 a curious plate representing the notes of the Gallicinium and of 

 other birds' songs musically expressed. 



Hymmis ad IV. Am. vel ad Gallicanium omni tempore. 



Ales diei nuntius 

 Lucem propinquam piaecinit: 

 Nos excitator luentiuin 

 Jam Chi'istus ad vitam vocat. 

 Auferte, clatnat, lectulos, 

 Aegi'o sopore desides: 

 Castique, recti, ac sobrii 

 Vigilate : jam sum proximus. 

 lesum ci^mus vocibus, 

 Flentes, precantes, sobrii: 

 Intenta supplicatio 

 Dormire cormundum vetat. 

 Tu Chiiste somnum discute : 

 Tu rnmpenoctis vincula: 

 Tu solve peccatum vetus, 

 Novumque lumen ingere. 

 Jamjam vagantes Daemonae 

 Laeti tencbris iioctium, 

 Gallo canente exterriti, 

 Sparsim timentes evolant. 

 Invisa nam vicinitas 

 Lucis, salutis, numinis, 

 Rupto tenebrarum situ, 

 Noctis fugat satellites. 

 Hoc esse signum praescii 

 Norunt repromissae spei, 

 Qua iios soporis Liberi 

 Speramus adventum Dei. 

 Deo Patri sit gloria, . 

 Ejusque soli Filio, 

 Cum Spiritu Paraclito, 

 Nunc, & per omne saeculum. 



V. O'CLOCK A.M. Not Canonical. 



Obs. Five o'clock not being a canonical hour, there are few anti- 

 quities belonging to its history. In Italy and some other countries 

 it is the hour of rising of certain monastic orders of the present day. 

 The Jesuits, for instance, whose hour is four in France, rise in Italy 

 in the fifth hour, and they do the same in England. In some places 

 the morning bell at the church rings at five o'clock, though six is the 



