According to Stengel (in Gröber's _Grundriss der Romanischen Philologie_), this octosyllabic French verse goes back to a lost vulgar Latin verse; this view is opposed by Dr. C. M. Lewis, in his _Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification_ (Yale Studies in English, 1898), who finds its origin in the tetrameter of the Latin hymns. Dr. Lewis also attributes to this Latin verse more direct influence on English verse than is commonly assumed. Thus he finds in it, rather than in the French octosyllabics, the model of the verse of the _Pater Noster_, quoted below. The argument is briefly this: the Latin verse was both accentual and syllabic; the French verse was syllabic but not accentual; that of the _Pater Noster_ is accentual but not syllabic; hence it is more nearly like the Latin than the French. A stanza of the Latin tetrameter, cited by Dr. Lewis from the hymn _Aurora lucis rutilat_, is as follows: "Tristes erat apostoli de nece sui Domini, quem pœna mortis crudeli servi damnarunt impii." Compare these lines from the _Brut_ of Wace: "Adunt apela Cordeille qui esteit sa plus joes ne fille; pur ce que il l'aveit plus chiere que Ragaü ne la premiere quida que el e cuneüst que plus chier des al tres l'eüst. Cordeil le out bien escuté et bien out en sun cuer noté cument ses deus sorurs parloënt, cument lur pere losengoënt."