Then again, as the whole population are with him, were I to start with five hundred men from here, the news would reach him, by means of smokes on the hills, before I had marched five miles away.

'Tis a warfare in which there is no credit to be gained, and much loss to be sustained; and I see not that, with anything less than an army large enough to march through Wales from end to end, burning the towns and villages, and putting to the sword all who resist, the affair can be brought to an end.
"It was only thus that Harold brought Wales to reason, and that so strongly that it was two generations ere they ventured again to cross the border.

It was so that Edward finally stamped out their rebellions, and methinks that the work will have to be done again, in the same manner.

So far from doing good, the king's invasion last autumn has but encouraged them; for, though so numerous, his army effected nothing, and showed the Welsh how powerless the troops were to enter the mountains, or to take the offensive anywhere save on level ground." Oswald's life, at Ludlow, differed in no way from that at Alnwick.

He took his meals at the high table, sitting below the knights, with Sir Edmund's squires.