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looked towards the four corners of the earth, to the North and to the South to the Ead and to the Weft.
5. And the king of Spain beheld the hold with an envious eye, inafmuch as it was near unto his kingdom, and had been taken from him by the fervants of George the king, at un- awares.
6. So he brought a flrong army againfl: it, even a very great multitude, and he planted
batteries againfl it, and effayed to beat down the walls thereof, but he could not prevail; for the hold was very flrong, and valiant men defended the place, and fhot down the fer- vants of the king from the battlements thereof.
7. Moreover the fervants of the king of Gaul, even a mighty army came againfl the hold, and joined themfelves to the fervants of the king of Spain; the bellowing of the de- ftroying engines, was fuch as had not been known in the reign of George the king, nor in tlic reign of his father^, ucr his father's father#
