of a literal correctness, and that the few various readings are drawn from the Cotton MS. to which I have before alluded. St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge, C. H. PASSION OF ST. GEORGE. GEDWOL-menn awriton Nu wylle we eow secgan þat heora gedwyld ne deriet digellice ænigum. Se halga GEORIUS was in hæðenum dagum rice ealdormann' undert þam redam casere Datianus§. on pære scire Capadocia. þa het Datianus þa hæþenan gegaderian * A corruption of Georgius very common in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman MSS. Instances also occur in which Georgius has been confounded with Gregorius. + Derige. Under Jam repam casere pe was Datianus geciged. PASSION OF ST. GEORGE. MISBELIEVERS have written Misbelief in their books, Touching the saint That Georius hight. Now will we teach you That heresy harm not Any unwittingly. The holy Georius Was in heathenish days A rich ealdorman, Under the fierce Cæsar Datianus, In the shire of Cappadocia. Then bade Datianus The heathen assemble Datianus may be a corrupted form. Heylin has endeavoured to prove that the Datianus here mentioned was Galerius Maximinus, a native of Dacia.-Hist. of St. George, p. 169, seqq. to his deofol-gyldum his Drihtne onteónan and mid manegum þeowracum þat hi heora lác geoffrodon hu hi pam deoflum onsægdon Ealle þæra hepenra godas syndon gramlice deoflut and ure Drihten soðlice geworhte heofonas. þine godas casere syndon gyldene and sylfrene' stæ'ne and treowe*‡ getreowleasra manna hand-geweorc * Supplied from Cotton MS. stænene and treowene. + deofla. |