ABEY. 1.]

ST. JOHN OF JEKUSALEM.

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a weapon was used on either side, nor a wordspoken, but ours went back silently and slowly totheir ground. Yet ours, I knew, were incited tothe utmost by hate and desire to sack . 1

“ The indignant soldan then rode through ourranks, to excite them . 2 In vain his son set theexample, by riding in a rush towards the Giaours . 3An emir called out, I could not distinguish what,but it was clear that ours refused to obey . 4 So,our Saladin, after having, in vain, twice given thecommand, Charge , perceived he was committinghimself uselessly, and, in a transport of rage, hada retreat sounded, and retired, and shut himself upin his tent without seeing any one, and so remainedthere invisible to us all for three days . 8 But ourtroops waited for a still more shameful scene. KingRichard, advancing alone, rode along our wholefront with his lance in the rest, and no one wasbold enough to accept the challenge, and stir fromthe ranks to fight him . 6 On which he made a signto his servants to come with his dinner, and, de-scending from his horse, sat down and ate anddrank in the face of our army, drawn up as forbattle; his small troop, and the handful of foot,

1 Arab. Cliron., 354.

2 Id., 354.