D.  This  story  comes  to  us  in  a  MS.  of  the  twelfth  century,
but  it  is  certainly  a  recension  of  one  of  the  tenth.  There  is
much  in  it,  the  substance  of  the  story,  which  could  scarcely
have  originated  later  than  the  tenth  ;  and  much  more,  de-
clamatory verbiage  usque  ad  nauseam^  which  smacks  rather
of  the  twelfth.  From  this  verbiage  the  procemium  is  com-
paratively free  ;  I  italicize  a  few  words  which  seem  to  be  of
the  same  stamp.
"  Domino  et  patri  venerabili  atque  amando,  aliquis,

unus  Deo  famulantium,  salutem  et  pacem.
