Note 26 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES
Reading edition
On this passage we take our stand: it is the very essence of our case. We made our statement 'without fear of contradiction'; and it is not contradicted. Moreover, we can now further strengthen it by appealing to Baudri's poem,26 an authority of the first rank, in which, as in the others, there is no allusion to the existence of any 'palisade'.