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Spontaneous History

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.

A Duke of Normandy, Robert the Devil,
Casting about him in search of evil,
Espied a tanner’s daughter, Arletta—
The less that’s said about her the better.

Forty years rolled away into line.
Duke Robert’s son, aged thirty-nine,
Raised some forces and managed to land them
In England, met the Saxons, and tanned them.

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