ANST - Fw: [TY] period writers game 2

[Caley Woulfe]

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From: sunshinegirl <sunshinegirl at steward-net.com>
To: TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu <TY at reashelm.ce.utk.edu>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 9:06 PM
Subject: [TY] period writers game


>Here is another one:
>
>It gives me no pleasure to write of all the different civil wars which
>afflicted the Frankish people and their rulers: what is even worse, we now
>seem to se the moment draw near which our Lord foretold as the real
>beginning of our sorrows: 'The father shall rise up against the son, and
the
>son against the father; brother shall rise up against brother, and kinsman
>against kinsman.'  the Franks ought, indeed, to have been warned by the sad
>fate of their earlier kings, who, throught their inability ever to agree
>with each other, were killed by their enemies.  How many times has Rome,
the
>city of cities, the great head of all the world, been brought low by her
>civil dissensions, yet it is true that, when the strife was over, she rose
>once more as if out of the ground!  If only you kings had occupied
>yourselves with wars like those in which your ancestors larded the ground
>with their sweat, then the other races of the earth, filled with awe at the
>peace which you imposed, might have been subjected to your power!
>
>The translator is Lewis Thorpe.
>Who wrote it, and what is it part of?
>
>Melandra of the Woods
>
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