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about, like the rising and falling of a bird’s wings , 1and devastated what remained of the antique in theHoly Land, Baalbec, and many places round Leba-non (whose mountains opened and descended), andmuch of Damascus, Tyre, Tripoli, and other towns;and the walls of Acre, and even the very palacewhere the King of Jerusalem was staying; so thatthe monies raised in Europe for the crusade had tobe laid out in rebuilding the walls of Acre . 2 Thestate of affairs could not be pleasing for people thatloved quiet—every one making war acl libitum ——even the poet Saadi for awhile in prison, andcondemned to work like a galley slave. ThoughAleppo was at peace with Jerusalem, the Christiansof Antioch were at open war with Saracen Hamah;so, as Almeric liked quiet, he thought it best tocome and die at Acre . 3 Isabella is once more free.Will she take her a fifth husband? John deBrienne took heed of that, for disembarking atAcre with only three hundred horse and eightythousand livres (half from the King of France, andthe other half from the Pope) he was received withgreat pomp and married to her daughter, and inher right became King of Jerusalem—at least tothe Latins, for the Moslems called him King of

1 Michaud: Hist., iii. 255. 2 Id. : Id., 256.

3 Id. : Id., 258.