. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Figures taken from Monuments of the Twelfth Century. LOUIS IX. 101. Louis VIII. CHAPTER VIII. LOUIS IX. On their broad shields they bore him from the plain,To sense a corpse, and numberd with the fixed eyes in hovering shades were drownd,His gallant limbs in death-like fetters shouts tumultuous, and the din of war,His ear rereived like murmurs heard afar;Or as some peasant hears, securely laidBeneath a vaulted cliff or woodland shade,When oer his head unnumberd insects singIn airy

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. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. Figures taken from Monuments of the Twelfth Century. LOUIS IX. 101. Louis VIII. CHAPTER VIII. LOUIS IX. On their broad shields they bore him from the plain,To sense a corpse, and numberd with the fixed eyes in hovering shades were drownd,His gallant limbs in death-like fetters shouts tumultuous, and the din of war,His ear rereived like murmurs heard afar;Or as some peasant hears, securely laidBeneath a vaulted cliff or woodland shade,When oer his head unnumberd insects singIn airy rounds; the children of the spring. Epigontad. 1. Louis VIII., descended from Charlemagne by themothers side, was the first of the Capetian line who yk&Xhad not been crowned miring the lifetime of his to his accession, he had been engaged in endeavour-ing to drive the English from Guienne, and had so far suc-9* 102 HISTORY OP FRANCE. A. D. 1226. ceeded, that only a few towns on the sea-coast remained intheir possession, These must soon have yielded, had notLouis been summoned away by the pope to complete the sub-jugation of th

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