[402] 474 B, C [17], 486 C [45].
[403] Alfred’s love of hunting comes out in one or two passages in his writings, e.g. Bede, i. 1 ad fin., where Ireland is said to be ‘mære on huntunge heorta ⁊ rana,’ ed. Miller, p. 30; cf. Boethius, xxxii. § 3, ed. Sedgefield, p. 73.
[404] König Ælfred, p. 68; so Green, C. E. p. 100.
[405] 474 B [16], 486 A [43], 487 A [46], 488 D [50] ter, 491 C [55]. To learn by heart is ‘memoriter retinere,’ ‘memoriter discere,’ 473 E [16], 486 A [43]. But apart from any question of the meaning of ‘recitare,’ Asser says distinctly in this case: ‘magistrum adiit et legit, quo lecto matri retulit et recitauit.’
[406] W. M. II. xlii.
[407] Biographia Liter. Britan., i. 385.
[408] i. 296, 311; modified in Thorpe’s translation, ii. 44. Pauli rightly protests against the theory, p. 67.
[409] Dict. Nat. Biog., i. 154.
[410] ‘nobilis ingenio, nobilis et genere,’ 469 A [4].
[411] cf. Pauli, u. s. p. 67.