The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns

by Samuel Willoughby Duffield

APPENDIX.

Mr. Duffield had copied for insertion the introduction which Bernard of Morlaix wrote for his poem, De Contemptu Mundi. It is here given from the text of 1610. The reader will find little difficulty in distinguishing u and v, i and j in the orthography, and in recognizing q: as the enclitic que. It will be observed that the introduction is not written throughout in the Leonine verse of the poem, but varies into two easier forms of verse.