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> Does anyone know if the Tallis setting would originally be applied to the
> whole hymn ?

Tallis seems to have set only the first stanza, but since the text is
metrical there is no reason why the other stanzas could not have been sung
to the same music.

I suspect you'd need to look at a pre-Tridentine breviary to find the whole
hymn text.

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