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These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define.

Though largely uncontrite, parson Samuel Parris, a driving force behind the witch hunt, did receive some punishment when the town, cash-strapped and feeling a little used, decided not to pay his salary.

The Geatish digressions in the last episode of the poem take the audience from Hrethel's death to the deaths of all his sons and the succession of his grandson, Beowulf, though not in chronological order.