[125] Ibid. pp. 304-5. See also, in the sermon on St. John the Baptist, a curious satire on wicked talkative women, pp. 476-7.
[126] Sermon for the 25th of August, on the martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, pp. 454 ff. The portrait of the saint is as minutely drawn: "he has fair and curling locks, is white of body, and has deep eyes and moderate nose," &c.
[127] Skeat, "Ælfric's Lives of Saints," 1881.
[128] "The Blickling Homilies," Sermons X. and XI.
[129] Ibid., Sermon XVII.