[930] ‘Pupillorum’; in Ps. ix. 34 (x. 16) ‘pupillo tu eris adiutor’ is paraphrased ‘þu eart fultumiend þara þe nabbað nawðer ne fæder ne modor.’ Cf. the elegy on the death of Charles the Great:—
‘Pater cunctorum orphanorum, omnium
Peregrinorum, uiduarum, uirginum.’
Printed at the end of Einhard’s Life (ed. Pertz, 1863), p. 41.
[931] i. 116.
[932] p. 519 A.
[933] Preface to Pastoral Care.
[934] Henry VI in 1441 did apply to Eugenius IV for Alfred’s canonisation, Bekynton’s Correspondence, i. 118, Rolls Series. I owe this reference to an interesting article in the London Quarterly for January 1902, which only came into my hands after the first three lectures were in type. The author, Mr. W. E. Collins, goes further than I can go in rejecting Asser, but his article is well worthy of attention.
[935] See Pauli, u. s. p. 126; cf. Essays, p. 13.
[936] Heb. xi. 33, 34.