Note 564 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
Quoted by Mrs. Lawrence, “Woman in England,” p. 49, from one of Adhelme’s Latin poems. Adhelme, Bishop of Sherborne, died in 709, having been thirty years a bishop. He wrote Latin poems, of which the most important, in praise of virginity, is in the Lambeth Library, No. 200. The MS. contains his portrait. See Strutt’s “English Dresses,” ed. Planché.