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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455449" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Battle of Hastings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell of the Battle of Hastings, <br>As happened in days long gone by,<br>When Duke William became King of England, <br>And 'Arold got shot in the eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It were this way - one day in October <br>The Duke, who were always a toff<br>Having no battles on at the moment, <br>Had given his lads a day off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'd all taken boats to go fishing, <br>When some chap in t' Conqueror's ear<br>Said 'Let's go and put breeze up the Saxons;' <br>Said Bill - 'By gum, that's an idea.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then turning around to his soldiers, <br>He lifted his big Nonnan voice,<br>Shouting - 'Hands up who's coming to England.' <br>That was swank 'cos they hadn't no choice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They started away about tea-time - <br>The sea was so calm and so still,<br>And at quarter to ten the next morning <br>They arrived at a place called Bexhill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">King 'Arold came up as they landed - <br>His face full of venom and 'ate - <br>He said 'lf you've come for Regatta <br>You've got here just six weeks too late.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At this William rose, cool but 'aughty, <br>And said 'Give us none of your cheek;<br>You'd best have your throne re-upholstered, <br>I'll be wanting to use it next week.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When 'Arold heard this 'ere defiance, <br>With rage he turned purple and blue,<br>And shouted some rude words in Saxon, <br>To which William answered - 'And you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twere a beautiful day for a battle; <br>The Normans set off with a will,<br>And when both sides was duly assembled, <br>They tossed for the top of the hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">King 'Arold he won the advantage, <br>On the hill-top he took up his stand,<br>With his knaves and his cads all around him, <br>On his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Normans had nowt in their favour, <br>Their chance of a victory seemed small,<br>For the slope of the field were against them, <br>And the wind in their faces an' all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The kick-off were sharp at two-thirty, <br>And soon as the whistle had went<br>Both sides started banging each other <br>'Til the swineherds could hear them in Kent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Saxons had best line of forwards, <br>Well armed both with buckler and sword - <br>But the Normans had best combination, <br>And when half-time came neither had scored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the Duke called his cohorts together <br>And said - 'Let's pretend that we're beat,<br>Once we get Saxons down on the level <br>We'll cut off their means of retreat.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they ran - and the Saxons ran after, <br>Just exactly as William had planned,<br>Leaving 'Arold alone on the hill-top <br>On his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the Conqueror saw what had happened, <br>A bow and an arrow he drew;<br>He went right up to 'Arold and shot him. <br>He were off-side, but what could they do?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Normans turned round in a fury, <br>And gave back both parry and thrust,<br>Till the fight were all over bar shouting, <br>And you couldn't see Saxons for dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And after the battle were over <br>They found 'Arold so stately and grand,<br>Sitting there with an eye-full of arrow <br>On his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marriott+Edgar">Marriott Edgar</a><div class=q>
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As happened in days long gone by,
When Duke William became King of England, 
And 'Arold got shot in the eye.

It were this way - one day in October 
The Duke, who were always a toff
Having no battles on at the..."></div>
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