This gave time to many families to escape; and Bermudo even carried away the bodies of his predecessors to the old refuge in the Asturian hills.

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His loftie steed with golden sell And goodly gorgeous barbes.

“Testilying,” police fabricating evidence or lying in court, is a type of police corruption.