Editorial note — Here beginneth the First Book of GULIELMUS DURANDUS his RATIONALE of the DIVINE OFFICES.

[Footnote 112: How beautifully, observes a writer in the British Critic, do old ecclesiastical writers use patria and domus of our celestial country, and our everlasting home!] [Footnote 113: Reference is here apparently made to the fifth chapter of the book, of Lamentations, which appears as the 3rd lesson at Matins.]