Their Heart, their Country’s—and their King’s, their Hand, STILL-but how chang’d! -thus, thus, were Armies taught; Un-paid, thus tractile; and thus rais’d, un-bought:

sore digladiations and contests

Most of the fibulae have a triangular molding above the notch, which probably contained wound wire. The crossbar is decorated either with a flat knob or with a Persian merlon.

Recognising that we are strong-minded is not the same as accepting ourselves to be stubborn or obstinate.