the manifold changings of the Service [in the pre-Reformation liturgies], was the cause, that to turn the Book only was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, than to read it when it was found out.
The Book of Common Prayer, Concerning the service of the church, page ix
It took more time or trouble to work out what you were supposed to be reading than to read it!
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