five o'clock in the morning
When I saw the porter afterwards he told me nothing except that Master Richard had worked well and willingly , and had asked for other tasks when his were done . He had asked , too , for a plenty of water to bathe himself , which he did not get . But whether he were disquieted or no on that Sunday , at least he was content next day , for it was on the next day at mass that our Lord told him what was the message that he was to deliver to the King . There was a Cluniac monk from France who had obtained leave to say mass at the shrine of the Confessor , and Master Richard followed him and his fellow to the altar at five o'clock in the morning to hear mass there and see his Maker . -LSB- This is the common mediaeval phrase . Men did not then bow their heads at the Elevation . -RSB- He knelt down against the wall behind the high altar , and began to address himself to devotion , but he was distracted at first by the splendour of the tomb , the porphyry and the glass-work below , that Master Peter the Roman had made , and the precious shrine of gold above where the body lay , and the golden statues of the saints on either side .