But huge great yron chests and coffers strong,
All bard with double bends,[152] that none could weene
Them to efforce by violence or wrong;
On every side they placèd were along.
But all the ground with sculs was scatterèd,
And dead mens bones, which round about were flong,
Whose lives, it seemèd, whilome there were shed,
And their vile carcases now left unburièd....
Edmund Spenser
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