Note 1399 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)
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Wid. Amb. 489;
“Ille timens cædem negat illi ferre salutem;
Nam pavitat mortem, ceu lepus ante canem.”
But the other motive is just as likely in one “ex Cenomannorum progenitus genere.”