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To all the host of Aragon it seemed a
thousand years while they were being
held back, for they deemed they were
battling for the right.And the emperor
and Messer Arrighetto gave similar
orders and exhortations to their own
host,reminding them that the German
blood was the noblest and the bravest
in the world.« It is not without reason »,
they said, « that we gained the most
holy crown of the empire, and have
kept the same for so long a time ;
therefore be brave and stouthearted
so as to put an end to the pride and
daring of these tramontane Gauls,
who in their foolish conceit ____

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