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21. And there was a high place call up over the brook for way faring men, who pafled that way : it was built up with hewn ftone, and th^" inhabitants of the land called it a bridge, the name thereof was Sanpink.

22. And the people of the provinces plant- ed fome of the deflroying engines on the bank of the brook, and the foldiers of Bri- tain went forth to drive them from thence.

23J But it came to pafs that the defcroying engines gaped upon them with their mouths, and vomited out their thunders; and the foldiers of Britain were fmitten to the earth, fo that they could no more rife; and the refi- due made their efcape; inafmuch as they could not perform their enterprifc.