NOTES TO BOOK VI.
Stretch'd o'er the steel-clad hush their swordless hands.
See Tacitus, lib. xiv. cap. 30, for the celebrated description of the attack on the Druids, in their refuge in Mona, under Publius Suetonius.
"You know the proverb—'birds of the same feather,'
A proverb much enforced in penal laws.
In Welch laws it was sufficient to condemn a person to be found with notorious offenders.
'Twould favour white, and raise the deuce in black.