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before the arrival of King Richard.
The noble fleet of the king of England, as we have said before, waited
here the arrival of their sovereign, Ñ a fleet wonderful for its numbers,
complement, and the splendour of its array, and the like of which none was
ever seen fitted out with such labour, and so numerous, besides the various
classes of men that belonged to it, stationed on the shore in pavilions and
tents of different forms; for they kept apart from the city, until the arrival of
King Richard, on account of the overbearing insolence of its citizens. For
this wicked people, commonly called Griffons, many of whom are of
Saracen extraction, hostile to our men, annoyed them by repeated insults,
by pointing their fingers into their eyes, and calling them stinking dogs,
and mocking them in many other ways, privately killing some of them, and
throwing others into the sewers, of which crime many of them were
afterwards convicted. In this manner they upbraided our men, and shewed
their hatred by doing them every ill turn they dared; and if our men
attempted to resist, or retaliate, they threatened to drive them entirely from
their city, being strangers, and no match for them in numbers or strength;
but the citizens acted in this without foresight, for they forgot that their
king was coming.

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Itinerary
103
Chapter XIII. Ñ With what show, first the king of France, then the king of
England, arrived in Messina.
It is a general custom, that when any particular king or prince of the
earth, conspicuous for his glory, might, and authority, comes forth in
public, his appearance of power shall not fall short of that with which he is
actually invested, Ñ nay, it is but right and becoming that the greatness of
a king should be shewn in his display and the homage which is paid him;
for a common proverb says, ÒSuch as I see you are, I esteem you.Ó
Moreover the general style and manner is taken from the disposition of the
chief. When, therefore, the king of France, of so high renown, whose edict
so many princes and nations obeyed, was known to be entering the port of
Messina, the natives, of every age and sex, rushed forth to see so famous a
king; but he, content with a single ship, as if to avoid the sight of men,
entered the port of the citadel privately, while those who awaited him
along the shore conceived this to be a proof of his weakness, and spoke
upbraidingly of him as one not likely to be the performer of any great
actions who thus slunk from the eye of man; and being frustrated in their
hopes of seeing him, they returned indignant to their homes. But when the
report was spread of the arrival of the noble-minded king of England, the
people rushed out eagerly to behold him, crowding along the shore and
seating themselves wherever they were likely to catch a glimpse of him.
And lo! they beheld the sea in the distance covered with innumerable
galleys; and the sound of trumpets and clarions, loud and shrill, strike
upon the ear! Then, as they approached nearer, they saw the galleys as they
were impelled onward, laden and adorned with arms of all kinds; their
pennons and standards floating in countless numbers in the breeze in good
order and on the tops of their spears; the prow of the galleys distinguished
from each other by the variety of the paintings, with shields glittering in
the sun, and you might behold the sea boiling from the number of oarsmen
who plied it, and the ears of the spectators rang with the peals of the
instruments commonly called trumpets, and their delight was aroused by
the approach of the varied crowd, when lo! the magnificent king,
accompanied by the crowd of obedient galleys, standing on a prow more

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