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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Nor went down, naked, any chiddering ghosts, Slain by the Gauls, before infernal gods. Gauls purify them then, in Sena's stream, From battle stains ; and give thanks to their gods. Sith Laon, Teo and Imolus, Umbrian kings, Come with great retinue; and to Gauls' king Brennus, Lighting from lofty steeds, do reverence : Twixt whom and Brennus, peace concluded is, On this wise and confirmed ; to Scnones Gauls, They all their soil, cede, this side Apennines. They join then, o'er the altars of their gods, To-day, right hands ; slain common sacrifice. In soil of fair Italia, dwell henceforth, Gauls peaceably, which had passed high Alps, with Brennus; Where plenteous fields, as erst in Spain, they ere. And sith, both out of Gaul and forest Almaigne, Valiant young warriors, from high frozen mounts, Descended, wont, each mid-year, to their brethren, In Italy, to arrive. And, to all such, To keep, two years, the borders of the Gauls, In warlike arms, of Brennus is assigned ; Then they like heritage, of conquered land, Receive. Pass years; and as, each summer season, chapter{Section 4Of the tall blue-eyed nations of the North, From the vast mounts, descend, adventurous youth ; So those high Alps, returning home, ascend Not few Transalpine Gauls ; some to take wives, Some sick, some ones to visit their old sires. Other, with king Ladower, the former year, Returned, to pay their vows, in Gaul's dim woods. Went also up the ethling Heremod; Fearing lest Aella should forthfare to Woden. Duke Heremod come again, longs homeward, Fridia, Unto their parents, Hildegond and king Aella: And glorious Brennus promised ride with her. Shall wend, with them, now great-grown, Sigamer ; Who newly, of Heremod, received manly arms. Two months, they make them ready ; and in the n...
