However, Tess found at least approximate expression for her feelings in the old
BENEDICITE that she had lisped from infancy; and it was enough.
Benedicite , which always seemed to him so exquisite.
Ivanhoe crossed himself, repeating prayers in Saxon, Latin, or Norman-French, as they occurred to his memory, while Richard alternately said,
Benedicite, and swore, Mort de ma vie!
Invited by Benassis, who summoned each in turn so as to avoid questions of precedence, the doctor's five guests went into the dining-room; and after the cure, in low and quiet tones, had repeated a
Benedicite, they took their places at table.
"She's a public lunger or she wouldn't have been singing the
Benedicite; and she's a Greenlander or she wouldn't have snow-blinds over her colloids," said George at last.
"I implore you; such an action is worth ten
Benedicites."
1 (1993): 79; Christina Rossetti, Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies of the
Benedicite (London: SPCK, 1879), p.
For Matins, Purcell provides settings of the
Benedicite and Jubilate as alternatives to the Te Deum and Benedictus; similarly, for Evensong, providing the Cantate Domino and Deus misereatur as alternatives to the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis.
Benedicite! I cannot vndyrstande What oure prince of prestys doth men, Pat every man xuld come and brynge with hym a whande.
The program includes American composer Gwyneth Walker's cantata "To Love This Earth'' set to writings by Henry David Thoreau; "Earth Is Our Mother'' by Dave Brubeck; "
Benedicite'' by Andrew Carter; the world premiere of area composer Dorothy VanAndel Frisch's "Cherish The Home We All Share''' set to a text by Joel R.