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elevated and ornamental than the others, as if to see what he had not seen
before, or to be seen by the crowds that densely thronged the shore, lands
in a splendid dress, where the sailors whom he had sent before him, and
others of his equipage, receive him with congratulations, and bring
forward the chargers and horses which had been committed to their care
for transportation, that he and his suite might mount. The natives crowd
round him on all sides, mixed with his own men, and followed him to his
hostel. The common people conversed with each other in admiration of his
great glory; and agreed that he was worthy of empire, and deserved to be
set over nations and kingdoms, Òfor the fame of him which we had before
heard fell far short of the truth when we saw him.Ó Meanwhile the
trumpets blew, and their sounds being harmoniously blended, there arose
a kind of discordant concord of notes, whilst the sameness of the sounds
being continued, the one followed the other in mutual succession, and the
notes which had been lowered were again resounded.
Chapter XIV. Ñ What injuries our men suffered at Messina: at the hands of the
Lombards.
When the Griffons saw the kings land in such strength, their
arrogance was in part checked, for they perceived that they were their
inferiors in valour and appearance; but the Lombards
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 ceased not
contumaciously to menace and revile our men and to provoke them by
insults, threatening even to attack our camp, to slay us and plunder our
goods. They were excited by jealousy on account of their wives, with
whom some of our men had talked, more for the purpose of irritating their
husbands than with the intention of seducing them. From this quarrel and
through envy, the Lombards were aroused, together with the commune
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16It is probable that Vinsauf calls this portion of the population Lombards, because they
were occupied in mercantile pursuits. They were not, of course, Lombards by nation.
17It is hardly necessary to state that the commune was the corporate body of the city,
probably jealous of their municipal privileges, which the crusaders perhaps had
infringed.

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of the city, and were always hostile to us as far as they could, chiefly
because they had learnt from their ancestors that they had been subdued
by us of yore; whence they did them as much annoyance as they could, at
the same time heightening the battlements of their towers, and deepening
the fosses that surrounded them. To irritate our men still more, they
provoked them by repeated revilings and insulted them with contumelies.
Chapter XV. Ñ How, owing to a loaf of bread which was sold by a woman, a fight
took place between us and the Lombards.
By chance one day it happened that one of our men was bargaining
with a woman about a new loaf which she offered for sale; and while they
were conversing together and he threatened to have the loaf weighed, the
woman, because he would not give her the price she asked, flew into a
great passion and insulted him with contumelious and wicked language,
and scarcely restrained her hands from striking him or tearing his hair.
Immediately a concourse of the citizens flocked together at the noise of the
abusive woman, who seized hold of the man and beat him unmercifully;
and after tearing out his hair and injuring him in many other ways, they
trod him under foot and left him for dead. When complaint was made,
King Richard begged for peace and friendship, asserting that he had come
in peace, and that he had set out merely to perform a pilgrimage; and he
desisted not from praying for peace, until each party, having given a
promise to that effect, returned quietly to their abodes.
Chapter XVI. Ñ How the Lombards attacked King RichardÕs men, and how King