ARCADIA. 



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Here, they colleded a huoe pile of flint-ftones ; 

 there, they planted prodigious crofs-bows, and 

 long beams, armed widi prongs of iron. Mean- 

 while, we perceived innumerable tribes of men 

 marching along the banks of the Seine, in martial 

 array. They were the friends, the kinfmen, the 

 vaflals of TorJIan, with their flaves, the partifans of 

 the Druids, fuch as were jealous of the King's 

 eftablilhment, and thofe who, from levity of 

 mind, afFeâ: novelties. Some floated down the 

 river in boats; others crofied the foreft in length- 

 ened colums. They took dieir ftation as one man 

 on the banks adjoining to Luteîia^ and their num- 

 bers furpaffed the powers of reckoning. It was 

 abfolutely impoffible I ever fliould efcape them. 

 In vain would it have been to make the attempt 

 under favour of the darknefs ; for as foon as night 

 fet in, the befiegers kindled innumerable fires, 

 with which the river was illumined to the very 

 bottom of it's channel. 



Reduced to this perplexity, I formed in my 

 own mind a refolution which was well-pleafing to 

 Jupiter. As I no longer expeded any thing good 

 at the hands of men, 1 refolved to throw myfelf 

 into the arms of Virtue, and to fave this inf.inc 

 city, by a voluntary furrender of myfelf to the 

 enemy. Scarcely had I repcfed my confidence in 

 the Cods, when they appeared f^^r my deliverance. 



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