The poem concludes with a mock Latin prayer.

You do the Latin prayers.

He was not strong enough to deliver his brief remarks himself, saying only a few lines from a Latin prayer, in a hoarse and weak voice.

In this form they are a traditional Latin Christian prayer.

Loudly he intoned some short Latin prayer, then crossed himself again and turned.

He quietly recited "De Profundis," a Latin prayer for the dead.

And he held up one palm toward the ghosts while he fumbled in a pocket with the other, beginning a sonorous Latin prayer.

All day long, loud Latin prayers would be audible in his cell.

The priest recites the Latin prayers and sprinkles the coffin with holy water.

The school was expressly exempted by the Act of Uniformity to allow it to continue saying Latin prayers despite the Reformation.