worda  and  weorca    wynsumne  ste,nc

in  ]>a  mseran  gesceaft     Meotude  bringaS          [660]

in  ]>set  leohte  lif.     Sy  him  lof  symle

}>urh  woruld  worulda    and  wuldres  blaed,
5  ar  and  onwald     in  pain  uplican

rodera  rice  !    He  is  on  ryht  Cyning

middangeardes     and  msegenprymmes  [665]

wuldre  biwunden     in  psere  wlitigan  byrig.
HafaS  us  alyfed     lueis  auctor,
10  feet  we  moturi  her     merueri1

goddgedum  begietan     gaudia  in  celo,

|>8er  we  motun     maxima  regna  [670]

secan  and  gesittan     sedibus  altiSj

lifgan  in  lisse     lucis  et  paciSj
15  agan  eardinga    almae  letitiae,

brucan  blseddaga,     blandem  et  mitem

geseon  sigora  Frean     sine  fine,  [675]

and  him  lof  singan     laude  perenne

eadge  mid  ^nglum.     Alleluia.
1  Ettmiiller,  meruisse  ;  Grein,  mereri.
APPENDIX  I.
LACTANTIUS  DE  AVE   PHOENICE.
[The  text  is  that  of  Riese  (Anthologia  Latina,  II,  Teubner,  1870;  2d  ed.1906),
•with  variants  obtained  from  the  edition  by  Baehrens  (Poetae  Latini  Minores,  III,
Teubner,  1881)  and  from  the  edition  by  Brandt  (Corpus  Scriptorum  Ecclesiastico-
rum  Latinorum,  XXVII,  1 893.  —  A  (Riese,  P)  =  Cod.  Parisinus  (8th-9th  cent.)  ;
B  (Riese,  V)  =Cod.  Veronensis  (9th  cent.);  C  (Riese,  L)  =  Leiden  sis  Yossianus
(10th  cent.).
