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ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.

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bled the great captains of antiquity.” 1 Much, see-ing it was the age of Cceur de Lion! Yet, howdoes our hero king’s biographer exclaim at Fre-derick’s death: “ 0 sea! 0 earth! 0 heaven ! theruler of the Roman Empire, that august prince,who had revived the glory and power of ancientRome, has perished, alas! ” 2 Instead of burying hisintestines at Tarsus, and embalming or salting hiscorpse, some say 3 it was boiled on the spot; thatthe bones, separated from the flesh, were collectedand deposited at Antioch, 4 or Tyre, 5 or Nazareth,and (as Jerusalem,which the emperor’s will had pre-scribed, was always in the power of the Mahomet-ans) finally, he was brought back to Spire, 6 and in-terred with the other emperors. His fine army meltedaway, their horses eaten, the wood of their lancesburned for fuel, 7 a mountain of metal formed inAsia Minor of their weapons and armour; 8 the veryfew of the German warriors that got to Palestine,like spectres, so worn by famine and incurable fever,could not possibly be of any assistance, but far better

1 liicobaldus.—Bib. Crois., ii. 614.

2 Yinisauf.—Bib. Crois., ii. 670.

3 Arab. Chron., 273.

4 Anspert (Dubrovsky).—Bib. Crois., iii. 270.

5 Xangis d’Achery.—Bib. Crois., iii. 236.

6 Arab. Chron., 274, 380.

7 Id., Id., 280. 3 Id., 278.