# Octosyllables to bishop Hæddi of Winchester (676-705)

Te nunc, sancte speculator,
uerbi Dei digne dator,
Hæddi, pie praesul, precor
pontificum ditum decor:
pro me tuo peregrino
preces funde Theodoro.
[‘You, now, holy bishop, / worthy giver of the Word of God, / Hæddi, holy prelate, I beseech you, / the glory of powerful pontiffs: / for me, your foreign visitor, / pour out prayers for Theodore.’ Lapidge 1995: 275]