Note 504 — Chapter XII · THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM IN NORMANDY.[159] 1051–1066. (continued 2)
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Roman de Rou, 10377;
“Mult véssiez herneiz floter,
Homes plungier et affondrer.”
Cf. Virg. Æn. i. 100;
“Ubi tot Simoeis correpta sub undis
Scuta virôm galeasque et fortia corpora volvit.”
Wace, it must be remembered, conceiving the bridge to have been there, attributes to its breaking what was really owing to the coming in of the tide.