Sicut enim agni a feris, ita miseri cives discerpuntur ab hostibus: unde a mansionibus ac possessiunculis suis eiecti, imminens sibi famis periculum latrocinio ac rapacitate mutua temperabant, augentes externas domesticis motibus clades, donec omnis regio totius cibi sustentaculo, excepto venandi solatio, vacuaretur.
For even as the lambs of the wild beasts, so were the wretched citizens mangled of their enemies: whereupon being driven out of their own homes and possessions they falleth a robbing and spoiling one the other of them, to stay the peril of hunger that threatened them, thus increasing the mischief of the foreign enemy with their civil commotions, until all the country was brought to that exigent, that they had none other sustenance of victual but that relief they got by hunting of wild beasts.
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