Whose life he took as price of broken truce.
Then Cador forward press’d, and haply met
The traitor Gilla, worker of these wars,
Of whom by death he took his due revenge.
The remnant then of both the camps concur,
They Britons all, or most, few foreigns left:
These wage the wars and hence the deaths ensue:
Nor t’ one nor t’ other side that can destroy
Her foes so fast, as ’tis itself destroyed.
The brethren broach their blood; the sire, the son’s,