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Constantine was Nautre's masterpiece, a triumph, as it were, of God's handiwork. One look at him would convince anyone that here was a descendant of the mythical Golden Age of the Greeks, so infinite was his charm.

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  1. One such was that braggart Robert, notorious for his power-lust, born in Normandy, but nursed and nourished by manifold Evil.
  2. While the abominable pope with his spiritual peace and evangelic peace, this despot, marched to make war on his own kindred with might and …
  3. Father and son you might liken to caterpillars and locusts, for what was left by Robert, his son fed on and devoured.

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