Rex Angliae, praestrenuus . . . . rege Gallorum minor apud eos censebatur ratione regni atque dignitatis; sed tum divitiis florentior, tum bellica virtute multo erat celebrior (Bohadin, p. 161).
A stranger might admire those riches; the national historians will tell with what lawless and wasteful oppression they were collected.