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However I think, God willing, shortly to write more of him, which I saw with my Eyes, and heard with my Ears.

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Crystallus patria, gregis aftrum, lumen avorum,
Laus juris, bajulus legis, honorque jacet.
Beda datus facris, gravitate fenex, puer annis,
Devota mentis athera thure replet.
Difcit, fcrutatur divina, docet, meditatur
Hujus cura Deo reddere vota fuit.
Juftitia Sedes, virtutum regia, cafus
Illecebra, gladius lubrica carnis arans.
Ense pio verbi confratrum casta tuetur,
Ne CHRISTI miles hofte ruente ruat.
Non invafit eo presente penuria mentes :
-Efurie lafis pascua lata fuit.
Hujus in Ecclesia nardus refpirat odorem,
Et circumfufos mulcet odore bono,
Hic dum fubtrahitur caco carbunculus orbi,
Orbis damna ferens munere lucis eget.
Vellere depofito Superum comitatur ovile,
Cui merces operis vita beata Deus.
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het aid in bonisa la luo eid 26 Light, His Country's Gem, Flock's Guide, our Fathers Laws Friend, and Honour, the renown of Right, Bede, fent for pious Ends, who, while a Child, Was grave, and Heaven with pious Incense fitt'd, Whose carliest Vow to God, whose constant Care Was Learning, reading Scripture, Preaching, *** પૂછે છે?????

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The place of Justice, Virtue's Realm, the Seat Of sweet attraction, treach'rous Lusts defeat, By Gospel Arms, long practis'd to defend

His Chastity against the dangerous Fiend;

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Who ne'er upon his Abstinence could steal :
With Hunger spent, he made his joyful Meal.
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Here, in this Church, this pleasing Spikenard
And all around refreshing Scents bequeaths.
But now from the benighted World he's gone,
The World benighted does its Light bemoan:
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While he, new cloth'd, joins with the heavenly
And leads a Life of Bliss for his Reward.

Bede as is before mention'd, dy'd on the Wednesday, being the Day of the Afcenfion, which happen'd in the 7th Year of the Reign of Ceolulph, and of our Lord 735, in the 62d Year of his Age, according to Mabillon, but according to the common Computation, in the 59th, he was buried by the Brothers of his House in the South Porch of the Church of Jarrow, which was dedicated to him, upon whose Grave fome ancient Writing gives us this Epitaph, unworthy of him.

Presbyter hic Beda requiefcit carne Sepultus. Dona CHRISTI animam in cælis gaudere per avum, Digne illi Sophiæ debriari fonte cui jam Sufpiravit ovans intento Semper amore.

Of Bede the mortal Part here buried lies,
But his Immortal's blest amidst the Skies:

He well deferv'd to drink of Wisdom's Spring,

Who glow'd with Praises of his heavenly King.

Soon after his Death his Name began to spread, and grew facred all over the Christian Church, Boniface the Pope, calls him in one of his Epiftles, The Candle of the English Church, Lucius his Successor calls him, Bede of bleffed Memory, and blessed Father, and fent a Vest of Silk (Holofericam,) to his Reliques, which Veftments, however common now, were then Presents for Princes, and their Dress as appears by fome Orders of Senate for regulating the Ufe of that Habit. He was likewise esteem'd a Saint, and had that Title given him, and an Altar erected to his Honour, in the Monastery of in the 9th Century And in the Missal done into Meter by Hartiman in the same Century, his Memory is thus jointly celebrated.

Pachumius, Beda, Attala, Pafnutius.

While he rested at Farrow, great Refort was made to his Grave, and particularly one Elfred a Priest of Durham in the beginning of the eleventh Century, came yearly on the Day of his Death, and spent it in watching and Prayer at his Tomb; and such a Veneration had he for him, that he took away privately his Bones, and carried them with him to Durham, and being ask'd by his Friends, where they lay, he reply'd, no one knows so well as myself; and after being press'd by them, gave this Answer, Believe me, my beloved Brothers, and be affur'd, that the Tame Cheft that contains the most Holy Body of. St. Cuthbert, our Father, holds likewise that of the venerable DoFor and Monk Bede.

In the Year 1054, when St. Cuthbert was remov'd, the Bones of Bede were found in the same Cheft, ty'd in a little linnen Bag, as appears by the History of the Tranflation of Cuthbert, the Bishop; and afterwards Bede's Bones were put by themselves in a wooden Box.

In the Year 1154, Hugh, Bishop of Durham, built a Shrine of pure Gold, and the finest Silver richly enchaft with Jewels, in which he placed the Bones of Bede, with the Relicks of other Saints, as Turgot tells us in his Appendix; but this Shrine was demolish'd by Order of Hen. VIII. However Spede tells us, that in his Time there was a Tomb of Marble in the West Part of the Church, of which Part then remain'd, notwithstanding which, the Monafticon says, his Bones were at Glastonbury, with those of Bishop St. Estervinus, Sigfrid and Herbert, Abbots of Weremuth. Among other Reliques they show'd, at Durham, the Coat

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