But, if the truth must be told, he had never kept his promises, and there is no reason to suppose that he kept that one either.

Milo adds, So died this great, puissant, and terrible king, cursing his children, cursed in them, as they in him.

All power was given over to him from his birth, save one only, power over himself.

He was indeed a slave more wretched than those hinds, _glebae ascriptitii_, whom at a distance he ruled in his lands: he was slave of his baser parts.

With God he was always at war, and with God's elect.