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IT would be difficult at the present day to appreciate the wild enthusiasm spread throughout Europe by the preaching of Peter the Hermit. Thousands from all classes -- kings, princes, nobles, priests, peasants, beggars, all alike impelled by the same blind impulse, many amongst them scarcely knowing where they were going or for what they went to fight, -- hastened to take up arms against the Infidel. The enthusiasm was not, as it would probably in our days, confined to one, nor even to three or four nations. "There were men," says Robert of Gloucester: --
"Of Normandy, of Denmark, of Norway, of Bretagne, Of Wales, and of Ireland, of Gascony, of Spain, Of Provence, of Saxony, and of Allemayne, Of Scotland, and of Greece, of Rome and Aquitaine."