he is sent:--

507 Brade synd on worulde
grene geardas,
and God siteth
on tham hehstan
heofna rice
ufan. Alwalda
nele tha earfethu
sylfa habban
that he on thisne sith fare,
gumena drihten:--
ac he his gingran sent
to thinre spræce.

Broad are in the world
the green plains,
and God sitteth
in the highest
heavenly realm
above. The Almighty
will not the trouble
himself have,
that He should on this journey fare,
the Lord of men:--
but He sends his deputy
to speak with thee.

These poems are surrounded by interesting questions which it is barely
possible here to indicate. Upon the top of the discussion about Milton,