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were struck, and the host marched with gaiety in their hearts to France the Fair.
‘My war is finished,’ said the King, as his army gladly
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turned their backs on Spain, and at nightfall spread their tents and slept till day began. But little he knew that four hundred thousand Unbelievers, with shields slung