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Now let's read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

We go.

Tonight, let's relax with more from a work that a surprising number of you have written me to request more of. The ecclesiastical

ecclesiasticallesiastical history of England by the venerable Bede.

In a revised translation, with introduction, life and notes by A.M. Seller,

late vice principal of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

First published in 1907 by George Belland Sons, London.

Let's pick up right where we left off at Chapter 2.

Let's begin.

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