16th century

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Kyrie eleison.

English translation: "Lord, have mercy."

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Missale Romanum [The Roman Missal] 14 July 1570.

Current Citation

Roman Catholic Daily Missal (1962). Angelus Press, 2004.

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

English translation: "Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault."

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Missale Romanum [The Roman Missal]. Milan, c. 1474.

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Roman Missal. Catholic Book Publishing, 2011.

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1596, bk. 6, canto 3.

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos, edited by Andrew Hadfield and Abraham Stoll. Hackett Publishing Company, 2007, bk. 6, canto 3.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard III. London: Andrew Wise, 1597, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Third." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.