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pense of his past sufferings and services, and sawjustice and public weal nowhere but in his ownelevation. So he inspired his young master withterror, and found gold the most effectual poison atboth Courts, Moslem or Christian. Inheriting muchof his ancestor’s activity and ambition, he did also ofthat indomitable character which irritates thepassions, and provokes hatreds the most implac-able . 1

To the Grand Master of the Hospitallers the un-happy young monarch could not but be dear, fromthe memory • of his royal grandfather, as well asfrom his name of Baldwin, which recalled thosematchless Normans who had been the order’searliest founders and patrons. It is said the orphanchild had more than ordinary talents ; 2 but histutor told him what no kind and prudent phy-sician would have had the heart to tell him; for itmust have broken the boy’s spirit for ever, and ef-fectually deprived him of whatever palliativemedical art might have attempted, or love, or hope.His cruel pedagogue informed him he was cure-lessly infected with that terrible disease that is in-

1 Michaud : Hist., ii. 247.

2 William of Tyre, hook xxi.—Jiosio: parti, lib. iv., anno 1173.