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of the king of Britain, fhould environ them round about.^

17. And they fled by the fame way that they had taken : and when the men of Bri- tain faw the way that the people of the provin- ces were returning, they haftened to the river, to a certain point of land, called in the French tongae, Du lac.

18. Now the people of the provinces had left their boats at the point, when they pafied over the river, and the foldiers of the king were minded to get the boats from the peo- ple of the provinces, and prevent their re- turn.

19. But a certain captain, who had charge thereof, when he faw the men of Britain, he efcaped with the boats down the river, to a place called in the vernacular tongue. Sorrel : now this place was occupied by the people of the provinces, and it was a place of defence,

so. And it came to pafs, as Arthur was