Note 349 — from the Origins To the Renaissance (continued 4)
Reading edition
"Officium de Sancto Ricardo eremita." The office contains hymns in the honour of the saint: "Rejoice, mother country of the English!..."
Letetur felix Anglorum patria ... Pange lingua graciosi Ricardi preconium, Pii, puri, preciosi, fugientis vicium.
"English Prose Treatises," pp. xv and xvi.