His mind ran upon Master Copas's disparagement of _Beowulf_ and the Anglo-Saxons.

It was ever the trouble that he remembered an answer for Brother Copas after Brother Copas had gone.
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Why had he not bethought him to cite Caedmon, at any rate, against that sweeping disparagement?
How went the story ?-- Caedmon was a lay brother, a tender of cattle at the Abbey of Whitby under the Abbess Hilda who founded it.