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The cruel edge-play. Suddenly, I heard, The hero doomed to slaughter leapt from sleep,

And hosts of men sought the pavilion
Of baleful Holofernes, thronged in crowds;
They only thought to offer him their help, 235
Their lord, before the terror came on him,
The power of the Hebrews. All supposed
The lord of men and the bright maid to-
gether

Were in the shining tent, the noble Judith
And he, the lustful, loathsome, terrible. 240
None was there of the earls who dared to

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Bore, drew to the bright town, Bethulia,
Helms, hip knives, corslets, the war dress.
of men

Gold-fretted, treasure more than cunning man
Can tell. All this the people of the land 305
Won with their strength in fight, bold under
banners,

Through Judith's prudent teaching, noble
maid.

They, the brave earls, brought from the
raid for her,

As her own meed, the sword and bloody helm
Of Holofernes, his breast armour broad 310
And ornamented with red gold; and all
Of treasure that the haughty chief possessed,
His heritage of circlets and bright gems,
They gave to the bright woman prompt of
thought.

For all this Judith gave to God the
praise,

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PROSE

Adamnan ca. (625-709)

LIFE OF COLUMBA1

according to custom, on the Lord's day; all on a sudden the face of the venerable man (Columba), as his eyes are lifted upward, is seen suffused with a ruddy glow, for, as it solemnities of masses were being celebrated, 5 is written, 'When the heart is glad the face

In the course of a few days, while the

1 Translation by J. T. Fowler (1895), by permission of the Oxford University Press, Publishers.

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