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017 - Book IX Part 1 Arthur defeats the Saxons · History of the Kings of Britain

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  Speaker 1: Book nine, Part one of History of the Kings of
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  Speaker 1: Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, translated by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter one,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur succeeds Uther, his father in the Kingdom of Britain,
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  Speaker 1: and besieges Colgrin Uther Pendragon. Being dead, the nobility from
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  Speaker 1: several provinces assembled together at Silceester and proposed to to Bricius,
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  Speaker 1: Archbishop of Legions, that he should consecrate Arthur Uther's son
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  Speaker 1: to be their king. For they were now in great straits, because,
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  Speaker 1: upon hearing of the king's death, the Saxons had invited
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  Speaker 1: over their countrymen from Germany, and under the command of Colgrin,
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  Speaker 1: were attempting to exterminate the whole British race. They had
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  Speaker 1: also entirely subdued all that part of the island which
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  Speaker 1: extends from the Humber to the See of caith Ness.
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  Speaker 1: To Bruscius, therefore, grieving for the calamities of his country,
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  Speaker 1: in conjunction with the other bishops, set the crown upon
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  Speaker 1: Arthur's head. Arthur was then fifteen years old, but a
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  Speaker 1: youth of such unparalleled courage and generosity, joined with that
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  Speaker 1: sweetness of temper and innate goodness, as gained him universal love.
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  Speaker 1: When his coronation was over, he according to usual custom,
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  Speaker 1: showed his bounty and munificence to the people, and such
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  Speaker 1: a number of soldiers flocked to him upon it that
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  Speaker 1: his treasury was not able to answer that vast expense.
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  Speaker 1: But such a spirit of generosity joined with valor, can
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  Speaker 1: never long want means to support itself. Arthur, therefore, the
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  Speaker 1: better to keep up his munificence, resolved to make use
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  Speaker 1: of his courage and fall upon the Saxons, that he
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  Speaker 1: might enrich his followers with their wealth. To this he
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  Speaker 1: was also moved by the justice of the cause, since
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  Speaker 1: the entire monarchy of Britain belonged to him by hereditary right.
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  Speaker 1: Hereupon assembling the youth under his command, he marched to York,
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  Speaker 1: of which, when Colgrin had intelligence, he met him with
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  Speaker 1: a very great army composed of Saxon's Scots and Picts
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  Speaker 1: by the River Douglas, where a battle happened, with the
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  Speaker 1: loss of the greater part of both armies. Notwithstanding, the
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  Speaker 1: victory fell to Arthur, who pursued Colgrin to York and
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  Speaker 1: there besieged him. Badolf, upon the news of his brother's flight,
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  Speaker 1: went towards the siege with a body of six thousand
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  Speaker 1: men to his relief, for at the time of the
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  Speaker 1: battle he was upon the sea coast waiting the arrival
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  Speaker 1: of Duke Childrich with succors from Germany, and being now
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  Speaker 1: no more than ten miles distant from the city. His
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  Speaker 1: purpose was to make a speedy march in the night
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  Speaker 1: time and fall upon the enemy by way of surprise.
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  Speaker 1: But Arthur, having intelligence in his design, sent a detachment
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  Speaker 1: of six hundred horse and three thousand foot under the
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  Speaker 1: command of Cador, Duke of Cornwall, to meet him the
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  Speaker 1: same night. Cador, therefore, falling into the same road along
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  Speaker 1: which the en who he was passing, made a sudden
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  Speaker 1: assault upon them, and entirely defeated the Saxons and put
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  Speaker 1: them to flight. Badolf was excessively grieved at this disappointment
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  Speaker 1: in the relief which he intended for his brother, and
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  Speaker 1: began to think of some other stratagem to gain access
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  Speaker 1: to him, in which, if he could but succeed, he
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  Speaker 1: thought they might concert measures together for their safety, and
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  Speaker 1: since he had no other way, for it, he shaved
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  Speaker 1: his head and beard, and put on the habit of
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  Speaker 1: a jester with a harp, and in this disguise walked
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  Speaker 1: up and down the camp, playing upon his instrument, as
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  Speaker 1: if he had been a harper. He thus passed unsuspected,
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  Speaker 1: and by a little and little went up to the
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  Speaker 1: walls of the city, where he was at last discovered
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  Speaker 1: by the besieged, who thereupon drew him up with cords
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  Speaker 1: and conducted him to his brother. At this unexpected, though
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  Speaker 1: much desired meeting, they spent some time in joyfully embracing
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  Speaker 1: each other, and then began to consider various stratagems for
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  Speaker 1: their delivery. At last, just as they were considering their
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  Speaker 1: case desperate, the ambassadors returned from Germany and brought with
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  Speaker 1: them to Albania a fleet of six hundred sail baden
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  Speaker 1: with brave soldiers under the command of Childwick. Upon this news,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur was dissuaded by his counsel from continuing the siege
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  Speaker 1: any longer, for fear of hazarding a battle with so
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  Speaker 1: powerful and numerous an enemy. Chapter two, Hurl sent fifteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand men to Arthur's assistants. Arthur complied with their advice,
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  Speaker 1: and made his retreat to London, where he called an
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  Speaker 1: assembly of all the clergy and nobility of the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: to ask their advice what cause to take against the
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  Speaker 1: formidable power of the Pagans. After some deliberation, it was
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  Speaker 1: agreed that ambassadors should be despatched into Armorica to King
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  Speaker 1: Hurl to represent to him the calamitous state of Britain.
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  Speaker 1: Hul was the son of Arthur's sister by Dubricius, king
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  Speaker 1: of the Amorican Britons, so that upon advice of the
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  Speaker 1: disturbances his uncle was threatened with he ordered his fleet
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  Speaker 1: to be got ready, and having assembed fifteen thousand men,
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  Speaker 1: he arrived with the first fair wind at Hammo's Port,
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  Speaker 1: and was received with all suitable honour by Arthur and
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  Speaker 1: most affectionately embraced by him. Chapter three, Arthur makes the
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  Speaker 1: Saxons his tributaries. After a few days they went to
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  Speaker 1: relieve the city Calidcoit, that was besieged by the Pagans,
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  Speaker 1: which being situated upon a mountain between two rivers in
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  Speaker 1: the province of Lindisia, is called by another name Lindocollinium.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they arrived there with all their forces.
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  Speaker 1: They fought with the Saxons and made a grievous slaughter
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  Speaker 1: of them, to the number of six thousand, part of
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  Speaker 1: whom were round in the rivers, part fell by the
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  Speaker 1: hands of the Britons. The rest, in a great consternation,
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  Speaker 1: quitted the siege and fled, but were closely pursued by
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  Speaker 1: Arthur till they came to the wood of Caledon, where
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  Speaker 1: they endeavored to form themselves into a body again and
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  Speaker 1: make a stand. And here they again joined battle with
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  Speaker 1: the Britons and made a brave offense, whilst the trees
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  Speaker 1: that were in the place secured them against the enemy's arrows. Arthur,
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  Speaker 1: seeing this, commanded that the trees that were in that
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  Speaker 1: part of the wood to be cut down, and the
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  Speaker 1: trunks to be placed quite around them, so as to
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  Speaker 1: hinder their getting out, resolving to keep them pent up
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  Speaker 1: here till he could reduce them by famine. He then
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  Speaker 1: commanded his troops to besiege the wood, and continued three
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  Speaker 1: days in that place. The Saxons, having now no provisions
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  Speaker 1: to sustain them, and being just ready to starve with hunger,
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  Speaker 1: begged for leave to go out in consideration, whereof they
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  Speaker 1: offered to leave all their gold and silver behind them
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  Speaker 1: and returned back to Germany with nothing but their empty ships.
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  Speaker 1: They promised also that they would pay him tribute from
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  Speaker 1: Germany and leave hostages with him. Arthur, after consultation about it,
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  Speaker 1: granted their petition, allowing them only leave to depart and
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  Speaker 1: retaining all their treasures as also hostages for payment of
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  Speaker 1: the tribute. But as they were under sail on their
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  Speaker 1: return home, repented of their bargain and tacked about again
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  Speaker 1: towards Britain and went on shore at Totness. No sooner
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  Speaker 1: were they landed than they made an utter devastation of
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  Speaker 1: the country as far as the Severn Sea, and put
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  Speaker 1: all the peasants to the sword. From thence they pursued
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  Speaker 1: their furious march to the town of Bath and laid
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  Speaker 1: siege to it. When the King had intelligence of it,
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  Speaker 1: he was beyond measure surprised at their proceedings, and immediately
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  Speaker 1: gave orders for the execution of the hostages. And desisting
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  Speaker 1: from an attempt which he had entered upon to reduce
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  Speaker 1: the Scots and Pitts, he marched with the utmost expedition
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  Speaker 1: to raise the siege, but labored under very great difficulties,
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  Speaker 1: because he had left his nephew, Earl Siicadaklad at length.
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  Speaker 1: Having entered the province of Somerset and beheld how the
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  Speaker 1: siege was carried on, he addressed himself to his followers
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  Speaker 1: in these words, since these impious and detestable Saxons have
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  Speaker 1: disdained to keep faith with me, I, to keep faith
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  Speaker 1: with God, will endeavor to revenge the blood of my
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  Speaker 1: countrymen this day, upon them to arms, soldiers to arms,
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  Speaker 1: and courageously fall upon the perfidious wretches over whom we shall,
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  Speaker 1: with Christ assisting us, undoubtedly obtain the victory. Chapter four
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  Speaker 1: do Brucius's speech against the treacherous Saxons. Arthur, with his
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  Speaker 1: own hand kills four hundred and seventy Saxons in one battle.
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  Speaker 1: Colgrin and Badolph are killed, And the same when he
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  Speaker 1: had done speaking, sent to Brucius, Archbishop of Legiance, going
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  Speaker 1: to the top of a hill, cried out with a
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  Speaker 1: loud voice, you that have honor to profess the Christian faith,
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  Speaker 1: keep fixed in your minds the love which you owe
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  Speaker 1: to your country and fellow's subjects, whose sufferings by the
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  Speaker 1: treachery of the Pagans will be an everlasting reproach to
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  Speaker 1: you if you do not courageously defend them. It is
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  Speaker 1: your country which you fight for, and for which you should,
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  Speaker 1: when required, voluntarily suffer death, for that itself is a
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  Speaker 1: victory and the cure of the soul. For he that
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  Speaker 1: shall die for his brethren offers himself a living sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: to God, and has Christ for his example, who condescended
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  Speaker 1: to lay down his life for his brethren. If therefore
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  Speaker 1: any of you shall be killed in this war, that
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  Speaker 1: death itself, which has suffered so glorious a cause, shall
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  Speaker 1: be to Him for penance and absolution of all his sins.
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  Speaker 1: At these words, all of them, encouraged with the benediction
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Prelate, instantly armed themselves and prepared to
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  Speaker 1: obey his orders. Also Arthur himself, having put on a
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  Speaker 1: coat of mail suitable to the grandeur of so powerful
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  Speaker 1: a king, placed a golden helmet upon his head, on
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  Speaker 1: which was engraven the figure of a dragon, and on
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  Speaker 1: his shoulders his shield called priwan, upon which the picture
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  Speaker 1: of the Blessed Mary, Mother of God was painted, in
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  Speaker 1: order to put him frequently in mind of her. Then
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  Speaker 1: girding on his caliburn, which was an excellent sword made
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  Speaker 1: in the Isle of Avalon. He graced his right hand
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  Speaker 1: with his lance named Ron, which was hard, broad and
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  Speaker 1: fit for slaughter. After this, having placed his men in order,
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  Speaker 1: he boldly attacked the Saxons, who were drawn out in
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  Speaker 1: the shape of a wedge, as their manner was, and they,
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  Speaker 1: notwithstanding that the Britons fought with great eagerness, made a
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  Speaker 1: noble defense all that day, but at length, towards sun setting,
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  Speaker 1: climbed up to the next mountain, whould serve them for
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  Speaker 1: a camp, for they desired no larger extent of ground,
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  Speaker 1: since they confided very much in their numbers. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Arthur with his army, went up the mountain, but lost
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  Speaker 1: many of his men in the ascent by the advantage
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  Speaker 1: which the Saxons had in their station on the top,
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  Speaker 1: from whence they could pour down upon him with much
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  Speaker 1: greater speed than he was able to advance against them. Notwithstanding,
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  Speaker 1: after a very hard struggle, the Britons gained the summit
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  Speaker 1: of the hill and quickly came to a close engagement
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  Speaker 1: with the enemy. Again gave them a warm reception and
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  Speaker 1: made a very vigorous defense. In this manner was a
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  Speaker 1: great part of that day also spent. Whereupon Arthur, provoked
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  Speaker 1: to see the little advantage he had yet gained, and
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  Speaker 1: that victory still continued in suspense, drew out his caliburn, and,
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  Speaker 1: calling upon the name of the Blessed Virgin, rushed forward
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  Speaker 1: with great fury, into the thickest of the enemy's ranks,
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  Speaker 1: of whom such was the merit of his prayers. Not
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  Speaker 1: one escaped alive that felt the fury of his sword.
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  Speaker 1: Neither did he give over the fury of the assault
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  Speaker 1: until he had, with his caliburn alone, killed four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy men. The Britons, seeing this, followed their leader
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  Speaker 1: in great multitudes, and made slaughter on all sides, so
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  Speaker 1: that Calgrin and Baldolf his brother, and many thousands more
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  Speaker 1: fell before them. But Childrick, in this imminent danger of
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  Speaker 1: his men, betook himself to flight. Chapter five. The Saxons,
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  Speaker 1: after their leader Cheldric, was killed, are all compelled by
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  Speaker 1: Cador to surrender. The victory being thus gained, the king
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  Speaker 1: commanded Cador, Duke of Cornwall, to pursue them, while he
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  Speaker 1: himself should hasten his march into Albania, from whence he
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  Speaker 1: had advice that the scot and the Picts were besieging
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  Speaker 1: Alclad in which, as we have said before, Hurl lay sick.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore he hastened to his assistance, for fear he might
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  Speaker 1: fall into the hands of the barbarians. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: the Duke of Cornwall, who had the command of ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand men, would not as yet pursue the Saxons in
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  Speaker 1: their flight, but speedily made himself master of their ships
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  Speaker 1: to hinder their getting on board, and manned them with
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  Speaker 1: his best soldiers, who were to beat back the Pagans
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  Speaker 1: in case they should flee thither. After this he hastily
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  Speaker 1: pursued the enemy according to Arthur's command, and allowed no
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  Speaker 1: quarter to those he could overtake, so that they, whose
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  Speaker 1: behavior before would so cruel and insolent, now with timorous hearts,
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  Speaker 1: fled for shelter, sometimes to the coverts of the woods,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes to mountains and caves to prolong a wretched life.
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  Speaker 1: At last, when none of these places could afford them
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  Speaker 1: a safe retreat, they entered the Isle of Thanet with
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  Speaker 1: their broken forces, But neither did they there get free
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  Speaker 1: of the Duke of Cornell's pursuit, for he still continued
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  Speaker 1: slaughtering them and gave them no respite till he had
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  Speaker 1: killed Childric and taken hostages for the surrender of the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six, Arthur grants a pardon to the Scots and
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  Speaker 1: Picts proceeded at the Lake Lormond. Having therefore settled peace here,
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  Speaker 1: he redirected his march to Ourclood, which Arthur had relieved
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  Speaker 1: from the oppression of barbarians, and from thence conducted his
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  Speaker 1: army to Muife, where the Scots and Picts were besieged.
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  Speaker 1: After three several battles with the king and his nephew,
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  Speaker 1: they had fled as far as this province, and entering
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  Speaker 1: upon the Lake LeMond, sought for a refuge in the
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  Speaker 1: islands that are upon it. This lake contained sixty islands,
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  Speaker 1: and received sixty rivers into it, which emptied themselves into
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  Speaker 1: the sea by no more than one mouth. There is
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  Speaker 1: also an equal number of rocks in these islands, as
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  Speaker 1: also of Eagle's nests. In those rocks which flocked together
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  Speaker 1: there every year, And by the loud and general noise
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  Speaker 1: which they now made, foreboded some remarkable event that should
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  Speaker 1: happen to the Kingdom to these islands. Therefore, had the
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  Speaker 1: enemy fled, thinking the lake would serve them instead of
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  Speaker 1: a fortification. But it proved of little advantage to them,
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  Speaker 1: for Arthur, having got together a fleet, sailed round the
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  Speaker 1: rivers and besieged the enemy fifteen days together, by which
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  Speaker 1: they were so straitened with hunger that they died by thousands.
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  Speaker 1: While he was harassing them in this manner, Guillemerius, King
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  Speaker 1: of Ireland, came up in a fleet with a very
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  Speaker 1: great army of barbarians in order to relieve the besieged.
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  Speaker 1: This obliged Arthur to raise the siege and turn his
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  Speaker 1: arms against the Irish, whom he They slew without mercy,
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  Speaker 1: and compelled the rest to return back to their country.
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  Speaker 1: After this victory, he proceeded in his first attempt, which
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  Speaker 1: was to extirpate the whole race of the Scots and Picts,
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  Speaker 1: and treated them with an unparalleled severity. And as he
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  Speaker 1: allowed quarter to none, the bishops of that miserable country,
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  Speaker 1: with all the inferior clergy, met together, and bearing the
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  Speaker 1: relics of the saints and other consecrated things of the
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  Speaker 1: church before them, barefooted, came to implore the King's mercy
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  Speaker 1: for their people. As soon as they were admitted into
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  Speaker 1: his presence, they fell down upon their knees and humbly
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  Speaker 1: besought him to have pity upon their distressed country, since
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  Speaker 1: the sufferings which he had already made it undergo were sufficient,
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  Speaker 1: nor was there any necessity to cut off the small
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  Speaker 1: remainder to a man, and that he would allow them
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  Speaker 1: the enjoyment of a small part of the country, since
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  Speaker 1: they were willing to bear the yoke which he would
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  Speaker 1: impose upon them. The King was moved at the manner
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  Speaker 1: of their delivering this petition, and could not forbear expressing
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  Speaker 1: his clemency to them with tears, and at the request
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  Speaker 1: of those holy men, granted them pardon. Chapter seven, Arthur
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  Speaker 1: relates the wonderful nature of some ponds, this affair being concluded.
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  Speaker 1: Who had the curiosity to view the situation of the
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  Speaker 1: lake and wondered to find the number of rivers, islands, rocks,
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  Speaker 1: and eagles nests so exactly correspond And while he was
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  Speaker 1: reflecting upon it as something that appeared miraculous, Arthur came
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  Speaker 1: to him and told him of yet another pond in
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  Speaker 1: the same province, which was yet more wonderful, for not
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  Speaker 1: far from thence was one whose length and breadth were
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  Speaker 1: each twenty feet and depth five feet. But whether its
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  Speaker 1: square figure was natural or artificial, the wonder of it was.
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  Speaker 1: There were four different sorts of fishes in the four
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  Speaker 1: several corners of it, none of which were ever found
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  Speaker 1: in any other part of the pond but their own.
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  Speaker 1: He told him likewise of another pond in Wales, near
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  Speaker 1: the Severn, called by the country people lindig, one, into
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  Speaker 1: which when the sea flows it receives it in the
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  Speaker 1: manner of a gulf, but so as to swallow up
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  Speaker 1: the tide and never be filled or have its banks
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  Speaker 1: covered by it. But at the ebbing of the sea
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  Speaker 1: it throws out the waters which it had swallowed, as
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  Speaker 1: high as a mountain, and at last dashes and covers
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  Speaker 1: the banks with them. In the meantime, if all the
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  Speaker 1: people of that country should stand near with their faces
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  Speaker 1: towards it, and happened to have their clothes sprinkled with
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  Speaker 1: the dashing of the waves, they would hardly, if at all,
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  Speaker 1: escape being swallowed up by the pond. But with their
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  Speaker 1: backs towards it, they need not fear being dashed, though
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  Speaker 1: they stood upon the very banks. Chapter eight, Arthur restores
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  Speaker 1: York to its ancient beauty, especially as to the churches.
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  Speaker 1: The King, after his general pardon granted to the Scots,
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  Speaker 1: went to York to celebrate the feast of Christ's Nitivity,
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  Speaker 1: which was now at hand. On entering the city, he
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  Speaker 1: beheld with grief the desolation of the churches, For, upon
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  Speaker 1: the expulsion of the Holy Archbishop Sancso and of all
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  Speaker 1: the clergy there, the temples, which were half burnt down,
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  Speaker 1: had no longer defined service performed in them, so much
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  Speaker 1: had the impious rage of the Pagans prevailed. After this,
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  Speaker 1: in an assembly of the clergy in people, he appointed
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  Speaker 1: Pyramus's chaplain Metropolitan of that sea. The churches that they
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  Speaker 1: leveled with the ground he rebuilt, and which was their
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  Speaker 1: chief ornament, saw them filled with assemblies of devout persons
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  Speaker 1: of both sexes. Also the nobility that were driven out
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  Speaker 1: by the disturbances of the Saxons. He restored to their country.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nine Arthur honors Orgosol with the scepter of the Scots,
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  Speaker 1: Uryon with that of Murif, and Lot with the consulship
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  Speaker 1: of Londonesia. There were there three brothers of royal blood,
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  Speaker 1: vizlot Urian and Orgasol, who before all the Saxons had prevailed,
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  Speaker 1: held the government of those parts. Being willing therefore to
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  Speaker 1: bestow on these, as he did on others, the rights
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  Speaker 1: of their ancestors, he restored to Orgasas the sovereignty over
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  Speaker 1: the Scots. His brother Orion he honored with the scepter
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  Speaker 1: of Marife and lot who, in the time of Aurelius
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  Speaker 1: Ambrosius had married his sister, by whom he had two sons,
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  Speaker 1: Wargan and Mordred. He re established in the consulship of
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  Speaker 1: Londonesia and the other provinces belonging to him. At length,
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  Speaker 1: when the whole country was reduced by him to its
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  Speaker 1: ancient state, he took to wife Guan Humara, descended from
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  Speaker 1: a noble family of Romans, who was educated under Duke Cador,
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  Speaker 1: and in beauty surpassed all the women of the island.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten Arthur added to his government Ireland, Iceland, Gothland
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  Speaker 1: and the Orkneys. The next summer he fitted out a
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  Speaker 1: fleet and made an expedition into Ireland, which he was
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  Speaker 1: desirous to reduce. Upon landing there, he was met by
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  Speaker 1: King Guillemurius before mentioned, with a vast number of men
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  Speaker 1: who came with a design to fight him. But at
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning of the battle, those naked and unarmed
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  Speaker 1: people were miserably routed and fled to such places as
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  Speaker 1: lay open to them for shelter. Guillemuris also in a
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  Speaker 1: short time was taken prisoner and forced to submit, as
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  Speaker 1: were also all the other princes of the country after
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  Speaker 1: the king's example. Being under great consternation at what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: After an entire conquest of Ireland, he made a voyage
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  Speaker 1: with his fleet to Iceland, which he also subdued, And
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  Speaker 1: now a rumor spreading over the rest of the islands
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  Speaker 1: that no country was able to withstand him. Doldavius, King
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  Speaker 1: of Gothland, and Confucius, King of the Orkneys came voluntarily
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  Speaker 1: and made their submission on a promise of paying tribute. Then,
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  Speaker 1: as soon as winter was over, he returned back to Britain, where,
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  Speaker 1: having established the kingdom, he resided in it for twelve
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  Speaker 1: years together. In end of book nine, Part one,