XXXV.

“For vain, too, there hath Gaul her efforts found. Our kinsmen scorn to wear a foreign chain. Indignantly they rise their Tyrants round, And bear the Freeman’s threatening port, like Spain. But feeble, too, the bands of Lusitain ’Gainst veteran cohorts battling all through life. Great Arthur comes from England to maintain Thy contest, Liberty. With ardour rife His warriors reach the shore, and gird them for the strife.