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Excerpt from The English Conquest of Ireland, A. D. 1166-1185, Vol. 1: Mainly From the 'Expugnatio Hibernica' of Giraldus Cambrensis; The d104
As a sample of the cutting-down, by Harl. 1 77, of Giraldus's descriptions of men, take the most trenchant instance, that of Henry II. In the Rolls edition, this description takes nearly six big octavo pages, v. 301 - 6, the whole of Chapter 46, Book I. Leaving out the first page, Harl. 177 and the englisher start with the second, p. 302 Expugn. H ibern. Lib. I. Cap. Xlvi.
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