The History of Chivalry and the Crusades, Volume 2Constable and Company, 1830 |
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Alexis appeared arms army arrived assailed assault attack Baldwin barons battle besiegers bishops brethren camp captivity Carac cause chevaliers chiefs chivalry Chris Christians church commenced conquerors conquest Conrade Constantinople continued Count Count of Tripoli cross crown crusaders Damietta danger death defend desire devotion Doge Doge of Venice dominions Edessa Egypt Emirs Emperor empire employed enemy engaged enterprise Europe expedition faithful favour fleet followed forces France Frederic Greeks Henry Holy City Holy Land Hospitallers immediately infidel inhabitants Joanice John of Brienne Joppa King of Jerusalem knights Louis master ment misery monarch Moslems noble noblemen obliged offered Palestine perished Pontiff Pope possession princes prisoners proceeded Ptolemais pursue received reign remained rendered respect retreat Richard sacred Saint Saladin Saracens second crusade sent shortly siege soldiers speedily success suffered Sultan sword Syria Templars thousand throne tians tion treaty troops Tyre valour Venetians vessels victory warriors
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Pagina 152 - The meanest subject of my wide domains, Had I been free, a ransom should have found, I mean not to reproach you with my chains, — Yet still I wear them on a foreign ground ! Too true it is — so selfish human race ! — " Nor dead nor captive friend or kindred find ;" Since here I pine in bondage and disgrace, For lack of gold my fetters to unbind.
Pagina 151 - I've long desired and loved — from you. Or, prisoner to some noble, may I fill Together with three more, some dungeon chill Unto each other odious company; Let master, servants, porters, try their skill, And use me for a target if they will, If ever I have loved aught else but thee. So may another knight make love to you, And so may I be puzzled what to do ; So may I be becalmed 'mid oceans wide ; May the king's porter beat me black and blue, And may I fly ere I the battle view, As they, that slander...
Pagina 154 - From bonds your sovereign and your friend to save Remote from consolation, here I lie, The wretched captive of a powerful foe, Who all your zeal and ardour can defy, Nor leaves you aught but pity to bestow.
Pagina 151 - With vhsor blinding me and shortened rein, And stirrups far too long, so may I ride, So may my trotting charger give me pain, So may the ostler treat me with disdain, As they who tell those tales have grossly lied. When I approach the gaming board to play, May I not turn a penny all the day, Or may the board be shut, the dice untrue, If the truth dwell not in me, when I say No other fair e'er wiled my heart way, From her I've long desired and loved from you.
Pagina 153 - But small is my surprise, though great my grief, To find, in spite of all his solemn vows, My lands are ravaged by the Gallic chief, While none my cause has courage to espouse. Though lofty towers obscure the cheerful day, Yet through the dungeon 's melancholy gloom Kind Hope in gentle whispers seems to say, " Perpetual thraldom is not yet thy doom.
Pagina 95 - ... God is always only delayed. He does not surprise the sinner ; he gives him time for repentance, until at length his exhausted mercy gives place to his justice. But we who, amidst the dissolution spread over this country, ought to give our attention, not only to the iniquities of its inhabitants, but to our own, and to those of all Christian people, and who ought, still further, to dread the loss of those of the faithful that still remain in Judaea, and the ravages with which the neighbouring...
Pagina 152 - No wretched captive of his prison speaks, Unless with pain and bitterness of soul, Yet consolation from the Muse he seeks, Whose voice alone misfortune can control. Where now is each ally, each baron, friend, Whose face I ne'er beheld without a smile? Will none, his sovereign to redeem, expend The smallest portion of his treasure...
Pagina 95 - ... are not upon earth ; I see nothing reign in their place but falsehood, homicide, adultery, and thirst for blood." It is everywhere urgent to act, to efface our sins by voluntary penance, and, by the help of true piety, to return to the Lord our God, in order that, corrected of our vices, and seeing the malice and ferocity of the enemy, we may do for the support of the cause of the Lord, as much as the infidel does not fear to attempt to do every day against him. Think, my beloved brethren, for...
Pagina 153 - Since here I pine in bondage and disgrace, For lack of gold my fetters to unbind ; Much for myself I feel, yet ah ! still more That no compassion from my subjects flows: What can from infamy their names restore, If, while a prisoner, death my eyes should close...
Pagina 151 - I cannot hide from thee, how much I fear The whispers breathed by flatterers in thine ear, Against my faith. But turn not, oh ! I pray, That heart so true, so faithful, so sincere, So humble and so frank, to me so dear, Oh lady ! turn it not from me away.