[62] There is a delicate touch in putting into the devil’s mouth the literal name and not the intimate name. [63] Cant. iv. 4. [64] A cynic might remark that Alcuin did not answer the clever question of the enemy. He could not deny that he was elaborately deceiving his attendants. [65] Sulpicius Severus, Life, c. 25. [66] Theodulf of Orleans makes a little apology to Karl for Alcuin’s use of wine and beer (not English beer! see p. 267): Aut si, Bacche, tui aut Cerealis pocla liquoris Porgere praecipiat, fors et utrumque volet; Quo melius doceat, melius sua fistula cantet, Si doctrinalis pectoris antra riget. If he bids bring forth cups of thy liquor, O Bacchus, or cups of the liquor of corn, and perhaps takes both; it is that he may teach the better, the better may sing his stave, if he moistens the recesses of his instructive breast. [67] “Celebrabat omni die missarum solemnia multa.” [68] Based on Isa. xxii. 22. [69] See p. 211. [70] The biographer here passes in a telling manner to the present tense. [71] Again the use of Alcuin’s baptismal name at a critical point. [72] This is one of the endless number of cases in which it is made quite clear that the original attraction to Rome was not the asserted bishopric of Peter, but the fact of the tombs of Peter and Paul. The cult of these two chiefs, princes of the Apostles, was the source of the reputation of Rome. See Appendix D. [73] See p. 268. [74] The title consists of twenty-four elegiacs, with only ordinary thoughts. [75] _Gesta Regum_, i. 3. [76] The mention of Ascension Day in the account of Bede’s death is in the judgement of some scholars more easily reconciled with the incidence of Ascension Day in the year 742. [77] The see of Dunwich appears to have been vacant then. [78] All this tells against the now exploded belief that Theodore established the parochial system. His _paroichia_ was the diocese. [79] The earliest pieces of English now extant in the original form are the inscriptions in Anglian runes on the cross erected in 670 in the churchyard of Bewcastle, in memory of the sub-king Alchfrith (see p. 9). The main inscription runs thus: + This sigbecn thun setton hwaetred wothgar olwfwolthu aft alkfrithu ean küning eac oswiung + gebid heo sinna sowhula. + This token of victory Hwaetred Wothgar Olwfwolthu caused make in memory of Alcfrith once king and son of Oswy. + Pray for the high sin of his soul. See also p. 296. [80] See p. 5. [81] _In ordinatione._ [82] _Constituant._ [83] He was Bishop of Winchester A.D. 1367 to 1398; Wilfrith was Bishop of York A.D. 669 to 678. [84] Eton was founded, in a very small way, in 1440. [85] As to the treatment of ancient ecclesiastical MSS. in one part of France at the time of the Revolution, see pages 219, &c. [86] It is now maintained that ‘Saxon’ is formed from _saxa_, stones, but for a different reason, being taken as describing ‘armed men’ in the stone age.