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sequently heard the muezzin in question, whom thecadi, much afflicted-, called, and reproached, and totake care and let no one cry the next night. Butthe day after, the emperor asked for the cadi, andsaid: ‘But the man 1 heard from the minaret sayso and so, what has become of him?’ The cadi,craving his excuse, said it was from fear of offendinghis Imperial Majesty. ‘ You were wrong,’ repliedFrederick. ‘ Why, on my account, renounce yourduty, your law, your religion?’ And he desired tosee, with his own eyes, the chair in which theImams sit, when they preach. And, while he wasin the mosque, he saw a Christian priest entering itwith a Bible in his hand, though it had been pre-cisely stipulated that in the mosques the Mussulmenshould be secured from all insult, and no troublegiven in any case to them, or their religious cere-monies. This boldness irritated the emperor, andhe forbade the priest to advance a step; swearingto punish any Christian severely who entered amosque without a special permission; ‘for,’ headded, ‘ we are all the sultan’s servants and slaves;it is he restored to us, our churches, we ought notto misuse his favour.’ ” 1

After this stay of two days in Jerusalem,Frederick went back to Acre, and sailed. He was1 Arab. Chron., 432.