Note 1207 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
Reading edition
Wid. Amb. 191;
“Nascitur extemplò clamor qui perculit astra,
Et vox communis omnibus una fuit;
‘Bella magis cupimus quam sub juga colla reponi
Alterius Regis, vel magis inde mori.’”