Note 1408 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)
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Wid. Amb. 421;
“Nec penetrare valent spissum nemus Angligenarum,
Ni tribuat vires viribus ingenium.”
(The metaphor of the “nemus” or “silva” runs throughout Guy’s description.) So William of Malmesbury (ii. 228) speaks of Harold as being “astutiâ Willelmi circumventus.”