ter feras et ignaras gentes Germaniae laborantes, vestris sacrosanctis
orationibus adjuvemur." Boniface to Cuthberht and others, year 735, in
Migne's "Patrologia," vol. lxxxix., col. 735.

[78] "Ideo haec Vestrae Excellentiae dico ... ut aliquos ex pueris nostris
remittam, qui excipiant nobis necessaria quaeque, et revehant in Franciam
flores Britanniae: ut non sit tantummodo in Eborica hortus conclusus, sed
in Turonica emissiones Paradisi cum pomorum fructibus, ut veniens Auster
perflare hortos Ligeris fluminis et fluant aromata illius...." Migne's
"Patrologia," vol. c., col. 208. Many among Alcuin's letters are
directed to Anglo-Saxon kings whom he does not forbear to castigate,
threatening them, if need be, with the displeasure of the mighty
emperor: "Ad Offam regem Merciorum;" "Ad Coenulvum regem Merciorum,"
year 796, col. 213, 232.

[79] Works in Migne's "Patrologia," vol. lxxxix. col. 87 _et seq._ They
include, besides his poetry ("De laude Virginum," &c.), a prose
treatise: "De Laudibus Virginitatis," and other works in prose. He uses
alliteration in his Latin poems.

[80] "Vita Sancti Wilfridi episcopi Eboracensis, auctore Eddio
Stephano," in Gale's "Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae
Scriptores x." Oxford, 1691, 2 vols. fol., vol. i. pp. 50 ff.

[81] Ed. G. H. Moberly, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1881, 8vo (or
Stevenson, London, 1838-41, 2 vols. 8vo). Complete works in Migne's
"Patrologia," vol. xc. ff.

[82] Letter of Cuthberht, later abbot of Jarrow, to his friend Cuthwine,
on the death of Bede, printed with the "Historia ecclesiastica." Bede is
represented, on his death-bed, "in nostra lingua, ut erat doctus in
nostris carminibus, dicens de terribili exitu animarum e corpore:

Fore the nei-faerae
Naenig uniurthit
Thonc snoturra...."

Bede had translated the Gospel of St. John, but this work is lost.

[83] See below, p. 70.

[84] Letter of the year 735, "Cuthberto et aliis"; letter of 736 to
Ecgberht, archbishop of York. He receives the books, and expresses his
delight at them; he sends in exchange pieces of cloth to Ecgberht;
letter of the year 742; "Patrologia," vol. lxxxix.

[85] Archbishop of Canterbury, seventh century.

[86] J. M. Kemble, "Codex Vercellensis," London, AElfric Society,
1847-56; Part I., ll. 1 ff., 2507 ff., "Andreas," attributed to
Cynewulf. On this question, see Gollancz, "Cynewulf's Christ," London,
1892, p. 173.

[87] "Neque enim possunt carmina,