Note 1170 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
Reading edition
Wid. Amb. 147;
“Nec mirum, Regem quia te plebs stulta negabat,
Ergo perit justè, vadit et ad nihilum.”
We find the same sentiment in William of Poitiers’ account of the battle (134); “Stravit adversam gentem, quæ sibi, Regi suo, rebellans commeruit mortem.”