the Ecclesiologist, of the following, of each of which M. Gautier simply says, Cette prose est inédite.
| Vol. I. p. 68. | Salve, dies dierum gloria. |
| 74. | Sextâ passus feria. |
| 101. | Postquam hostem et inferna. |
| 168. | Rex Salomon fecit templum. |
| Vol. II. 105. | Lætabundi jubilemus. |
| 297. | Per unius casum grani. |
It was, of course, by the most pardonable fault, a fault rendered sometimes almost unavoidable through the international difficulties of obtaining books, that the Editor made the mistake which I have now pointed out.
The Evangelistic Symbols offered, as might be expected, a favourite theme to mediæval poets. Adam of S. Victor has himself another sequence on the same subject. It is no part of my design to dwell on the different adaptations of these symbols; how the lion is given to S. John, and S. Luke, and S. Matthew: the man and the eagle to S. Mark, &c. I quote some of the verses of the Christian poets on the subject.
Juvencus,—if the lines are indeed his,—
Matthew of virtue's path is wont to tell,
And gives the just man laws for living well.
Mark loves to hover twixt the earth and sky
In vehement flight, as eagle from on high.
The Lord's Blest Passion Luke more fully writes,
And, named the ox, of priestly deeds indites.
John, as a lion, furious for the strife,
Thunders the mysteries of Eternal Life.
S. Mark's flying between the earth and sky is ex-
