Such learning as that of Bede, such architecture as that introduced by St. Wilfrid at Ripon and Hexham, such artistic work as that of the Royal MS. preserved in the British Museum, which may have been the very one presented by Wilfrid to his church of York, show that the Saxons, who are so often described as mere jovial, hard fighting, hard drinking, blustering dullards, had in many instances reached a comparatively high standard of civilization.

Lisle Court, Wootton, I.W.,

July, 1887.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

  1. [Stranded]
  2. ["Freely Ye have Received—Freely Give"]
  3. ["Under the Greenwood Tree"]
  4. [The Surprise]
  5. [St. Wilfrid]
  6. [Extremes Meet]
  7. ["Ho! Watchman; What of the Night!"]
  8. ["Nothing Venture, Nothing Have"]
  9. ["I can call Spirits from the Vasty Deep"]
  10. ["For My Sake, be Comfortable"]
  11. ["Memories of Long Ago"]
  12. ["The King shall have His Own Again"]
  13. ["Which is the Better Life?"]
  14. ["'Twixt Cup and Lip there's many a Slip"]
  15. ["The Cruel Crawling Foam, the Cruel Hungry Foam"]
  16. ["Blessed are the Peacemakers"]
  17. ["In the Lost Battle, Borne Down by the Flying"]
  18. ["Let's Whip the Stragglers o'er the Seas Again"]
  19. ["Be Ready, Claudio, for your Death, To-Morrow"]
  20. ["'Tis True we are in Great Danger; the greater should our Courage be"]
  21. ["Let us Die in Honour; once more back Again"]
  22. ["Now, by my faith, Lords, 'twas a Glorious Day"]
  23. ["The Conclusion of the Whole Matter"]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[How they ran ashore on the Pole Sand at the Bar of Cissanceaster Haven] . . . Front.

[Cædwalla heweth a way out of the burning Palace of Edilwalch]

[How the Skald, the Yokel, and the Jackass strove for the Prize of Poesie]