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The French, versed in stratagems, skilled in warfare, pretended to fly as if defeated.
The English peasantry rejoiced and believed they had won; they pursued in the rear with naked swords... But those who feigned flight wheeled on the pursuers and forced them, held in check, to flee from death. A great part fell there... As meek sheep fall before the ravening lion, so the accursed rabble went down, fated to die. GUY OF AMIENS (ATTRIBUTED) The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio Circa 1068 |
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