“Hic in honore Dei requiescit stirps Clodovei,
        Patris bellica gens, bella salutis agens. 
     Ad votum matris Bathildis poenituere,
        Scelere pro proprio, proque labore patris.”—­

Three other lines, preserved by Yepez, in his chronicle, refer to the same tale, but accuse the princes of a crime of deeper die than mere rebellion against parental authority:—­

    “Conjugis est ultus probrum; nam in vincula tradit
     Crudeles natos, pius impietate, simulque
     Et duras pater, o Clodovee, piusque maritus.”

Mabillon supposed the tomb to have been erected for Tassilo and his son; but I do not know how this conjecture is to be reconciled to the appearance of the statues, both representing persons of equal age.  An examination of the grave at the time of the destruction of the abbey, might have afforded some interesting results; though, had any discovery been made, it would have been but a poor reward for the desolation which facilitated the research.

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FOOTNOTES: 

[Footnote 10:  Immediately on the opposite side of the Seine, are extensive turf-bogs, which are of rare occurrence in this part of France; and in them grows the Andromeda polifolia, a plant that seems hitherto to have been discovered no where else in the kingdom.]

[Footnote 11:  The following particulars relative to the territory of Jumieges, as well as the church, are curious:  they are copied from an extract from the Life of St. Philibert, as given in the Neustria Pia, p. 262.—­“Congrue sane locus ille Gemmeticus est dictus, quippe qui instar gemmarum multivario sit decore conspicuus.  Videas illic arborum comas sylvestrium, multigenos arborum fructus, solum fertile, prata virentia, hortorum flores suaveolentes, bortis gravidas vites, humum undique cinctam aquis, pascua pecorum uberrima, loca venationi apta, avium cantu circumsonantia.  Sequana fluvius illic cernitur late ambiens:  et deinde suo pergeus cursu, uno duntaxat commeantibus aditu relicto.  Ibi mare increscens nunc eructat:  nunc in sinum suum revolutum, navium fert compendia, commercia plurimorum.  Nihil illic deest; quicquid vehiculis pedestribus, et equestribus plaustris, et ratibus subministratur, abunde suppetit.  Illic castrum condidere antiqui; ibi stant, in acie, illustria castra Dei:  ibi prae desiderio paradisi suspirantes gemunt, quibus postea opus non erit, in flammis ultricibus, nihil profuturos edere gemitus.  Ibi denique almus sacerdos, Philibertus, multiplici est laude et praedicatione efferendus:  qui instar Patriarchae Jacob, in animabus septuaginta, demigravit in hanc eremum, addito grege septemplici, propter septiformem gratiam spiritus sancti.  Ibi enim eius prudentia construxit mA"nia quadrata, turrita mole surgentia; claustra excipiendis adventantibus mire opportuna.  In his domus alma