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spoken of, but must ever hold anhonoured place among the makers of our England. Servants of God ! or sonsShall I not call you ? becauseXut as servants ye knowYour Fathers innermost mind, Yours is the praise, if mankindHath not as yet in its marchFainted, and fallen, and died ! Then in such hour of… … QffiDDDBi CHAPTER I. Edmund, King and Martyr. Outside the walls of the great monasteries, in the twelfthcentury, comparatively few could read with ease ; there wasscarcely any literature: * a few poems, a rare chronicle, theBible, the Missal, the Breviary and Hours, made up thebulk of the books of…
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