and now longing for this king touches the English, that he should ward off (together with God) the present ills of those who were presumptuous towards fate about the things they had. For God is not responsible for these ills. So we will not have that man, greatly mourning he who should be a bulwark against grievous war. But even in earlier times, of old he slaughtered hostile Gauls in ruinous battle. For among all people, who does not remember the war in which, being young, he once triumphed far from home,