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enjoy perfect liberty; but that whoever held the king as an enemy, should
take care not to fall into his hands, or those of the army, for he would
certainly treat him as a foe, and that he would prove himself such as they
stood to him. By these means the emperor lost very many of his men, who
constantly deserted him. At last he betook himself to a very strong fort
called Nicosia, in confusion and sorrow at having failed in his intentions.
Chapter XXXIV. Ñ Of the arrival of King Guy at Cyprus.
On the following Saturday three galleys bore in sight, and all
doubted what they could mean, or whence they came. The king, always
prompt, not to say venturous, embarked in a small vessel impelled with
oars, and went to meet them and inquire who the comers were and whence
they came; and on their answering that it was Guy de Lusignan, the king
returned quickly and ordered supper to be immediately prepared for the
guests that were coming. And when King Guy landed, he received him
with the greatest respect, and entertained him most cordially. King Guy
had come to King Richard to ask his advice and assistance against the king
of France, who had planned that the marquis, of whom we have before
spoken, should be made king of Jerusalem, and Guy be deposed. Then
King Richard welcomed him kindly, and honoured him with gifts, because
he was poor and destitute of means; for he gave him two thousand marks
of silver and twenty cups of the value of a hundred and five marks, of
which two were of the purest gold.
Chapter XXXV. Ñ Of the nuptials of King Richard and Berengaria, and on the
arrival of the kingÕs galleys.
On the morrow, viz. on the Sunday, which was the festival of St.
Pancras, the marriage of King Richard and Berengaria, the daughter of the
king of Navarre, was solemnized at Limozin: she was a damsel of the
greatest prudence and most accomplished manners, and there she was
crowned queen. There were present at the ceremony the archbishop, and
the bishop of Evreux, and the bishop of Baneria, and many other chiefs and

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nobles. The king was glorious on this happy occasion, and cheerful to all,
and shewed himself very jocose and affable. The nuptials having been
solemnly celebrated in a royal manner, one day all the kingÕs galleys,
which had been anxiously looked for, arrived in port: they were equipped
and defended with splendid armouries, and no one ever saw better or safer
ships; and he added to them the five galleys which he had taken from the
emperor. The king had thus forty armed galleys and sixty others of a very
good quality.
Chapter XXXVI. Ñ Of the conference and the manner of making peace between
the king and the emperor.
The king, elated with success, thought that fortune smiled upon him;
he therefore exhorted his soldiers to expedition, and commanded them to
get every thing in readiness, lest the emperor should make a sudden attack
upon them; and he caused watches to be kept, and appointed sentinels to
guard the army. The king proposed with his army to pursue the emperor
wherever he was, and so take him by force or induce him to surrender; but
by the mediation and earnest request of the masters of the Hospitallers of
Jerusalem, it was determined that a conference should be held between the
king and the emperor, who greatly lamented the loss of his men, and that
he had been forced to fly in a shameful manner to Nicosia from the face of
the king; and he feared pursuit the more, because the natives detested him,
and he could not, therefore, trust to their assistance. Wherefore, having
called together as many as he could, the king proceeded to a very large
plain, between the sea and the highway, close by the city of Limozin. He
was mounted on a Spanish charger, of high mettle, of large size and elegant
shape, with high shoulder and pointed ears; his neck was long and slender,
and his thighs faultless; his feet were broad, and his limbs so perfectly
marked, that a painter could not have imitated them with perfect accuracy.
As if preparing himself for a swifter movement, he disdained to be checked
by his golden curb, and by the alternate change of his feet he seemed at one
time to move forward on his hind, at another on his fore legs. The king
bounded into his saddle glittering with gold spangles interspersed with

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