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moment he entered the streets, and went straightand most meekly to pray at the Holy Sepulchre,helmless and barefooted. And after some time,the other chiefs of the crusade followed him; butgrieved and ashamed am I to avow, that after thatsplendid act of piety, they returned to the vomit,with refreshed acrimony, and all the luost un-christian passions. Yet some few tarried withtheir heroic lord; chiefly his own immediate ser-vants, and one devoted youth who had long chosenhim for his man, and been beside him during thewhole crusade, and had saved his life in Natolia;and reminds us of the person who desired his ownname should be forgotten, and this epitaph, andnothing else, inscribed on his tomb, Here lies SirPhilip Sydney's friend ; — for chroniclers rarelydesignate him otherwise than Duke, Godfrey’s youngfriend, so that it required singular chance, andmuch antiquarian perseverance, to discover securelywhom they meant. But now all doubt has unanswer-ably vanished. From deserters met at Ramla, notone Latin, male or female, had remained in Jeru-salem. The contrary is but a fable. Had therebeen one, priest or layman, one single one of anyage or either sex, any such would have been eagerlycaught at; if even for no other purpose, yet forthis, to identify the relics intended for Europe.

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