IL PATER NOSTER DEI BECERI DI MERCATO.

"Pate nostro quisin celi sanctifice tuore nome tumme; avvenia regno

tumme; fia te volunta stua, in celo en terra.

"Pane nostro cotediano da nobis sodie, e dimitti nobis debita nostra,

sicutte ette nos dimittimus debitori nostri, sette ananossie in due

casse, intenzione sedie nosse e mulo.--Amenne!"

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There is, however, this great difference in the two prayers here given,

that the _Salve Regina_ is intended for a jest, while the paternoster is

given as actually taken down from a _ciana_, and is rather a specimen of

dialect than a _jeu d'esprit_. The following _Ave Maria_ is also

serious, and simply a curiosity of language:--

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