[79] The monks of Glastonbury used all possible means to obtain relics of saints. See the curious account of a contention concerning the body of St. Dunstan, which those monks asserted they had stolen from Canterbury, after it had been burnt by the Danes, in the time of Ethelred, in Whartoni Anglia Sacra, vol. ii. p. 222.
[80] Eccles. Hist., book v. ch. 24.
[81] John of Beverley, bishop of Hexham, A.D. 686. He was made bishop of York, A.D. 705, and died 7th of May, 722. See Bede, b. v. c. 2–6.
[82] Seneca, Controvers. lib. 1.
[83] Hebrews x. 31.
[84] Romans viii. 18.
[85] Scipio Africanus was accustomed to observe, “that he was never less idle than when unoccupied, nor never less alone than when by himself.” Cicero de Offic. 1. 3.
[86] These lines are thus rendered into English:
“Beneath this stone Bede’s mortal body lies;
God grant his soul may rest amid the skies.
May he drink deeply, in the realms above,
Of wisdom’s fount, which he on earth did love!”
[87] Called Egbert by some writers.