Chronicles of the Crusades: Being Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of Richard Coeur de LionH. G. Bohn, 1848 - 562 стор. |
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Сторінка 435 - I spoke of very soon increased so much in the army that the barbers were forced to cut away very large pieces of flesh from the gums, to enable their patients to eat It was pitiful to hear the cries and groans of those on whom this operation was performing; they seemed like to the cries of women in labour, and I cannot express the great concern all felt who heard them.
Сторінка 382 - I dared never turn my eyes that way for fear of feeling too great regret, and lest my courage should fail on leaving my two fine children and my fair castle of Joinville, which I loved in my heart.
Сторінка 459 - ... grant her a boon. The knight, with an oath, promised compliance. The queen then said, " Sir knight, I request, on the oath you have sworn, that should the Saracens storm this town and take it, you will cut off my head before they seize my- person.
Сторінка 458 - This knight was very old, not less than eighty years, or perhaps more ; and every time she screamed he held her hands, and said, " Madam, do not be thus alarmed ; I am with you : quit...
Сторінка 218 - ... procured the more speedy execution and consummation of so great a work in the capture of the city, as the most powerful of Christian kings, and of the highest dignity, should have done : whence, by how much the greater in valour and surpassing in excellence, by so much the more he was held bound to recover a land so cast down and destitute of aid, against which the heathen had come to pollute it ; for, according to St. Gregory, when gifts are increased, the reasons for them increase also, and...
Сторінка 432 - ... and the arch was so low it almost touched the water, and prevented the bodies passing underneath. The river was covered with them from bank to bank, so that the water could not be seen a good stone's throw from the bridge upward. The king hired one hundred labourers, who were full eight days in separating the bodies of the Christians from the Saracens, which were easily distinguishable : the Saracen bodies they thrust under the bridge by main force, and floated them down to the sea ; but the...
Сторінка 240 - ... advanced and gave repeated strokes with his sword, cutting them down like a reaper with his sickle, the rest, warned by the sight of the dying, gave him more ample space, for the corpses of the dead Turks which lay on the face of the earth extended over half a mile.
Сторінка 449 - Sir Guy d'Ebelin, constable of Cyprus, knelt beside me, and confessed himself to me, and I gave him such absolution as God was pleased to grant me the power of bestowing ; but of all the things he had said to me, when I rose up, I could not remember one of them,
Сторінка 352 - I did not learn to do so when young, and was to attempt it in the decline of life, the gout and other disorders, which I might have in my stomach, would greatly increase ; or, perhaps, by drinking pure wine in my old age, I should frequently intoxicate myself; and that it was a beastly thing for an honourable man to make himself drunk. My good lord the king asked me at another time, if I should wish to be honoured in this world, and afterward to gain paradise ; to which I answered, that I should...
Сторінка 267 - Darum ; and having collected a large number of cattle, horses, and mares, also twenty asses, thirty camels, and seventy sheep, and other cattle, they formed in a body and returned with all speed to Ascalon, bringing back also with them 200 Saracens, with their wives and children. On Palm Sunday, King Richard, amid much splendour, girded with the belt of knighthood the son of Saphadin, who had been sent to him for that purpose.