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“Offa restauratus regali stirpe creatus

Erigitur; spernit quæ degenerantia cernit—

Armis donatur: Cato, Mars, Paris, hic reputatur.

Quo floret tuta duce Marcia lege statuta

Ense superborum vires reprimens, dominatur.

Hunc Rex Francorum Carolus timet et veneratur.

Communi voto cum clero Marcia toto

Offæ concedit sese, cui mitis obedit,

Ergo coronatur: ex tunc Rex jure vocatur!”

V. Matth. Westm., AD 779.

LONDON:

HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW;

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., CORNHILL; AND H. WIX, NEW BRIDGE STREET.

1840.