Monkish Prayers.
Reading edition
The monks used to say their prayers no less than seven times in twenty-four hours—
1st. Nocturnal, at cock-crowing (2 o'clock in the morning). 2d. Matins, at 6 o'clock in the morning. 3d. Tierce, at 9 o'clock in the morning. 4th. Sext, at 12 o'clock noon. 5th. None, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 6th. Vespers, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. 7th. Compline, soon after 7.
Quarles wrote a neat epigram on the subject—
"For all our prayers the Almighty does regard The judgment of the balance, not the yard; He loves not words, but matter; 't is His pleasure To buy His wares by weight, and not by measure."