Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
Wheþer thou, Sennacherib, herdist not what thingis Y dide sum tyme? Fro elde daies Y fourmyde þat thing, and now Y haue brouyt; and it is maad in to drawyng vp bi þe roote of litle hillis fiytynge togidere, and of strong citees.