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and obeyed but the fits of their own insanity.They observed peremptorily that it was an enor-mous wrong to g'o against those who profaned thetomb of Christ, without first slaying who hadcrucified Him. Miraculous or pretended visions soinflamed their hate and horror and all their dia-bolical appetites, that they massacred all the Jewson their line of march with the most abominableand unnatural tortures. So the contents of each mis-erable Jewry craved for death as other men for life.But the boon without preamble of being torturedwas rarely or never granted.

Since they could find no captain, they took agoose and made it march at their head, struttingpompously with a wave of its body and bobbing thepinnacle of its long windpipe, or a goat with acoquelico ribbon round its neck; and ascribedsomething of divine to it, and assured astonishedbeholders, that it was equal to any priest or bishop.For which impudent jeer they are condemned bythe chroniclers more than for their deeds of tre-mendous guilt. This carnage of the unresistingJews inebriated such felons, and made them asproud as if they had vanquished the Saracens.But the Hungarians exercised their implacableswords on this division to a man. At least only