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willing to take a not intolerable ransom and depart.But when the generous veteran perceived a repug-nance in those of Acre, he perhaps was not dis-pleased, lest the sultan should not abide by his pro-mises—the more that renegades were busy' blowingand blowing like a fierce desolatingwind to heat theirhatred to redness against those who were their ownformer co-religionists; which reminds us of his pre-decessor’s prediction at St. Alban’s sentence. Still,though the poison circulating through his veinsmust have killed him shortly, it is said the illus-trious Beaujeu was slain in the ultimate battles; anend as becoming him as the Temple. By a stratagemof one of those renegades, the unhappy breach wasleft, and by that very gate of St. Anthony’s theMahometans broke into the city; and the rest isone scene of confusion. “ I know versions are dif-ferent, but prefer trusting my eyes corroborated byall I have heard from people likely to be well in-formed ; nor may I shuffle from it. But the last Isaw of them was on the rampart by St. Anthony’sGate, where remained at most a thousand menagainst the whole Mussulman army . 2 It was dark;but a gleam of Greek fire showed me them all onfoot, with couched lances, and Grandison with his

1 Chron. Estense,—Bib. Crois., ii. 638.

? Michaud: Hist., v. 142.—MS. Accon.