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how you awake
our sleeping sword of war.
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We charge you,
in the name of God, take heed.
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For never two such kingdoms did
contend without much fall of blood.
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Then hear me,
gracious sovereign.
:07:22
There is no bar to make against
your highness' claim to France...
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but this, which they
produce from Pharamond.
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"In terram salicam
mulieres ne succedant."
:07:37
"No woman shall succeed
in Salique land."
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Which Salique land
the French unjustly gloze...
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to be the realm of France.
:07:49
Yet their own authors
faithfully affirm...
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that the land Salique
lies in Germany...
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between the floods
of Sala and of Elbe.
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Then doth it well appear
the Salique law...
:08:03
was not devised
for the realm of France,
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nor did the French possess
the Salique land...
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until 421 years after
defunction of king Pharamond,
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idly supposed
the founder of this law.
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King Pepin,
which deposed childeric,
:08:25
did, as heir general,
being descended of blithild,
:08:29
which was the daughter
to king Clothair,
:08:31
make claim and title
to the crown of France.
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Hugh Capet, also, who usurped the
crown of Charles, the duke of Lorraine,
:08:38
sole heir male of the true line
and stock of Charles the great,
:08:41
could not keep quiet in his conscience
wearing the crown of France...
:08:44
until satisfied that fair queen
Isabel, his grandmother,
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was lineal
of the Lady Ermengare,
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daughter to Charles,
the aforesaid duke of Lorraine,
:08:54
by the which marriage the line
of Charles the great...
:08:57
was reunited
to the crown of France.