GILDAS BANDONICUS

Loathsome hordes dark swarms of worms that emerge from the narrow crevices of their holes when the sun is high, preferring to cover the villainous faces with hair rather than their private parts and surrounding areas with clothes.

But when these [the previous generations] had departed out of this world, and a new generation succeeded, who were ignorant of this troublesome time, and had only experience of the present prosperity, all the laws of truth and justice were so shaken and subverted, that not so much as a vestige or remembrance of these virtues remained among the above-named orders of men, except among a very few

Loathsome hordes dark swarms of worms that emerge from the narrow crevices of their holes when the sun is high, preferring to cover the villainous faces with hair rather than their private parts and surrounding areas with clothes.

But when these [the previous generations] had departed out of this world, and a new generation succeeded, who were ignorant of this troublesome time, and had only experience of the present prosperity, all the laws of truth and justice were so shaken and subverted, that not so much as a vestige or remembrance of these virtues remained among the above-named orders of men, except among a very few