"To fair St. Andrews bound, Within the _ocean-cave_ to pray, Where good St. Rule his holy lay, From midnight to the dawn of day, Sung to the billows' sound."] [Footnote 108: _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum_, lib. v. cap. 12.] [Footnote 109: _Ibid._ lib. v. c. 9. Bede further states that this anchoret subsequently went to Frisland to preach as a missionary there, but he reaped no fruit from his labours among his barbarous auditors. "Returning then (adds Bede) to the beloved place of his peregrination, he gave himself up to our Lord in his wonted repose; for since he could not be profitable to strangers by teaching them the faith, he took care to be the more useful to his own people by the example of his virtue."] [Footnote 110: Published in 1845 by the Surtees Society, _Libellus de Vita, etc., S. Godrici_, p. 65, etc.] [Footnote 111: _Ibid._ pp. 45 and 192.] [Footnote 112: See Wordsworth's beautiful inscription--"For the spot where the hermitage stood on St. Herbert's island, Derwentwater."--Ed. of 1858, p. 258.--P.] [Footnote 113: _Ibid._ footnote, p. 46.] [Footnote 114: Bede's _Vita Sancti Cuthberti_, cap. 16, 28, 46, etc.] [Footnote 115: _De Beati Cuthberti Virtutibus_, pp. 63 and 66.] [Footnote 116: See, _The Flowers of the Lives of the most renowned Saincts of the Three Kingdoms_, by Hierome Porter, p. 321.] [Footnote 117: Boece's _History and Chronicles of Scotland_, book ix. c. 17, or vol. ii. p. 98; Leslie's _De Rebus Gestis Scotorum_, lib. iv. p. 152; Dempster's _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Scotorum_, lib. ii. p. 122, or vol. i. p. 66.] [Footnote 118: The poem alluded to is designated "De Pontificibus et Sanctis Ecclesiae Eboracencis." A copy of it is printed in Gale's _Historiae Britannicae, etc. Scriptores_, vol. iii. p. 703, _seq._ The famous author of this poem, Alcuin, who was brought up at York, and probably born there about the year 735, became afterwards, as is well known, the councillor and confidant of Charlemagne. The application to the Bass of the lines in which he describes the anchoret residence of St. Balther is evident: Est locus undoso circumdatus undique ponto, Rupibus horrendis praerupto et margine septus, In quo belli potens terreno in corpore miles Saepius aerias vincebat Balthere turmas; etc.