XLVI. Hommey, Supplementum Patrum, Paris, 1686, p. 165. --He attributes the poem from which these lines are drawn, but on grounds entirely insufficient, to St Bernard.

34. gemma regia] Thus a later hymn, on the recovery of the

lost sinner :

Amissa drachma regio

Recondita est ærario:

Et gemma, deterso luto,
Nitore vincit sidera.