Note 670 — LECTURE V CIVIL ADMINISTRATION (continued) EDUCATION; LITERARY WORKS
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‘he witgode be him sylfum, hu his ealdormen sceoldon fægnian his cymes of his wræcsiðe,’ Thorpe, p. 50; cf. Solil. p. 204, where it is said how a man returned from exile remembers his past troubles, in pleasurable contrast with his present good fortune.