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On which Saladin gave his hand to the cadi, asconsenting. When, two years after, the war brokeout, the cadi took care to remind the soldan of hisvow, and that it was onlv on this condition thatGod had restored him his strength. And this wasthe reason why he showed a more than usualfervour. It was the Cadi Fadel himself who re-counted this anecdote to a friend of Emad-eddin.” 1

As early as 1184 poor Baldwin IV. had lost hiseyes, his extremities had fallen off putrified; he hadno more either hands or feet, and abdicating theadministration in favour of his sister Sybilla’s hus-band, had his little nephew crowned as BaldwinV., with great pomp ; the child (then only five)being borne in a grandee’s arms to the Holy Se-pulchre, a splendid banquet given in Solomon’sPalace, the barons and burghers of Jerusalemserving the new king; nor since then has there everbeen a feast of joy in that metropolis. 2 During hisminority his father-in-law Guy was to hold the re-gency, which dismissed Count Tripoli, whom hismany enemies accused of treasonable plots, and asecret correspondence with the Moslem; but upon

1 Arab. Chron., 198, Note 1.

2 Michaud : Hist., ii. 259.