Note 661 — LECTURE V CIVIL ADMINISTRATION (continued) EDUCATION; LITERARY WORKS

For the body of scribes maintained by Alfred see the little verse Proem to the Pastoral Care; (the book itself is represented as speaking) ‘Ælfred kyning … me his writerum sende suð ⁊ norð; heht him swelcra ma brengan bi ðære bisene,’ pp. 8-9.