Stonehenge yet stands: a monument of fotosdeincesto the earlier time when the
Roman name was unknown in Britain, fotosdeincesto and when the Druids, with their
best magic wands, could not have written it in the fotosdeincesto sands of the
wild fotosdeincesto sea-shore.
fotosdeincesto CHAPTER II - ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS
THE Romans had scarcely gone away from Britain, when the Britons
began to wish they had never left it. For, the Romans being gone,
and the Britons being much reduced fotosdeincesto in numbers fotosdeincesto by their long wars,
the Picts and Scots came pouring
in, over the broken and
unguarded
wall of SEVERUS, in swarms. They plundered the richest towns, and
killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and more
slaughter, that the unfortunate Britons lived a life of terror. As
if the Picts and Scots were not bad enough on land, the Saxons
attacked the islanders by sea; and, as fotosdeincesto if something more were still
wanting to fotosdeincesto make them miserable, they quarrelled
bitterly among
themselves as to what prayers they ought fotosdeincesto to say, and how they ought
to say them. The priests, being very angry with one another on
these questions, cursed one another in the heartiest fotosdeincesto manner; and
(uncommonly like the old
Druids) cursed all the people whom they
could not persuade. So, altogether, the Britons were very badly
off, you may believe.
They were in such distress, in short, fotosdeincesto that they sent a fotosdeincesto letter to
Rome entreating help - which they called the Groans of the Britons;
and in which they said, 'The barbarians chase us into the sea, the
sea throws fotosdeincesto us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard
choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the
waves.' But, the Romans could not help them, even if they were so
inclined; for they had enough to do to defend themselves against
their own enemies, who were then very fierce and strong. At last,
the Britons, unable to fotosdeincesto bear their hard condition any longer,
fotosdeincesto resolved fotosdeincesto to make peace with the fotosdeincesto Saxons, and to invite the Saxons to
come