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masque—rumour noticed, because others do so—but here only to accompany it with the due stigmaof declaring it a wicked falsehood, utterly dis-proved by the melancholy events that followed.Du Moulin had the noble fine end that becamehim, and was found the next day beneath a moun-tain of corpses. 1 The words of Hoveden are veryprecise, “ Et eodem die, videlicet Kalend Maji,sexaginta fratres Templi et summus MagisterDomus Hospitalis, cum pluribus domus sua3 fra-tribus, interfecti sunt.” 2 Sir Roger du Moulinwas probably the first with the epithet “ Grand ”in any document, though Bosio and Vertot givethe primacy to the bull of after years. 3

At these tidings Saladin hurried back fromPetra, and at Damascus found a body of ten thou-sand of choice regular horse; 4 but of the irre-gular, so numerous that some Moslems comparethem to the entire human race collected togetherfor the day of judgment. 5 Saladin had no moreto do than divide into centre, right, and left, andvanguard and rear, and in that array advanced

1 Cod. Dipl. Geros, i. 339—Yertot: ii, 265.—Bosio : par. 1,lib. v., anno 1187.

2 Hoveden: 635. 3 Yertot: iii. 525.

4 Arab. Citron., 190. 5 Arab. Citron., 190.—Emad-Eddin.