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 1     3|      the way barred as if by fosse or mound;~Then back the
 2     9|    upon the further shore~Of fosse or of canal, the frogs we
 3    14|    refuse his post.~Into the fosse below the paynim foes~Return,
 4    14|  bulwark's plight~Nor if the fosse of certain bottom were.~
 5    14|      wall and second mound~A fosse descends, wide, horrid,
 6    14|    all his arms, the yawning fosse.~ ~ CXXX~The moat of thirty
 7    15|      perished in the burning fosse.~The mighty gulf had not
 8    15|    the fiery pit;~Who to the fosse descended, ill content;~
 9    18|     Borne to the camp, which fosse and rampart span.~With the
10    18|     the youthful pair,~Leave fosse and palisade, and, in small
11    23|    would go,~But that into a fosse which stopt their course,~
12    23| straight and crooked way,~By fosse and cliff, at hazard, there
13    24|      But, as if girded in by fosse or pale,~Or, as too dearly
14    25|   was any one:~Though in the fosse, and round the palisade,~
15    26| stormed by it, will rampart, fosse, or wall,~Secure the city,
16    40|     a gaping wound,~A fouler fosse was formed and worse to
17    42|      for the foe~In rampart, fosse, or wall, defence was none,~
18    45| Gateway or tower; now gaping fosse would fill;~Yet vainly toils (