The Comic History of England

BOOK I.

CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE BRITONS--THE ROMANS--INVASION BY JULIUS CÆSAR.

IT has always been the good fortune of the antiquarian who has busied himself upon the subject of our ancestors, that the total darkness by which they are overshadowed, renders it impossible to detect the blunderings of the antiquarian himself, who has thus been allowed to grope about the dim twiligh...