as when a mother drives off a fly from her child who is bound in pleasant sleep. And from those things I said before these are manifest, I believe, who preceded these in speech with an equal number, for I related many impressive signs of the goodwill which God bestowed on the king, and the benefits which He granted the English. But that which I shall say now is very clear. For like the buds of trees and the greatest branches on a plant on the plain from a good root,