However widely diffused, the symbolism exemplified by the _Physiologus_ is peculiarly at home in the East. Thus Egypt symbolized the sun, with his death at night passing into a rebirth, by the phœnix, which, by a natural extension, came to signify the resurrection. And the Bible not only sends the sluggard to the ant, and bids men consider the lilies of the field, but with a large sweep commands (Job 12.7,8): 'Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.' [Footnote 1: Alfred de Musset, in _La Nuit de Mai_, develops the image of the pelican through nearly thirty lines.] The text as here printed is extracted from my edition, _The Old English Elenc, Phœnix, and Physiologus_ (Yale University Press, 1919), where a critical apparatus may be found; here it may be sufficient to say that Italic letters in square brackets denote my emendations, and Roman letters those of previous editors. The translations have not hitherto been published, and no complete ones are extant in any language, save those contained in Thorpe's edition of the _Codex Exoniensis_, which appeared in 1842. The long conjectural passage in the _Partridge_ is due wholly to Mr. Pitman. A.S.C. March 27, 1921. PHYSIOLOGUS [**Transcriber's note: The following texts have been split into small sections based on the pagination of the original. These sections alternate as follows, each section being separated from its neighbors by rows of asterisks: Old English verse; Modern English verse translation; Modern English prose translation. While this fragments each version, it facilitates comparison in parallel.] I THE PANTHER Monge sindon geond middangeard unrīmu cynn, [_þāra_] þe wē æþelu ne magon ryhte āreccan nē rīm witan; þæs wīde sind geond wor[_u_]l[d] innan 5 fugla and dēora foldhrērendra wornas widsceope, swā wæter bibūgeð þisne beorhtan bōsm, brim grymetende, sealtȳpa geswing. Wē bi sumum hȳrdon wrǣtlīc[_um_] gecynd[_e_] wildra secgan, 10 fīrum frēamǣrne, feorlondum on, eard weardian, ēðles nēotan, æfter dūnscrafum. Is þæt dēor Pandher bi noman hāten, þæs þe niþþa bear[n], * * * * *