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Updated: June 5, 2025
Passing by the shower of gold rings, necklaces, and bezants which were given at his shrine, it is certain that the coals of enthusiasm were blown by the report of miracles, never for very long together kept at bay by mediæval writers. While wishing to avoid the affirmatio falsi and to give no heed to lying fables, we must not risk being guilty of a suppressio veri.
'But wherefore write to the queen, who is but a woman? asked the ambassador somewhat surprised. 'She is my lady and companion, answered Louis, even at that moment mindful of the principles of chivalry; 'and it is only reasonable that her consent should be obtained. 'Well, said the ambassador, 'if the queen will pay a million golden bezants, the sultan will set you free.
His habit of going about in armor had in the first days of his coming subjected him to criticism; for the eyes before which he passed belonged for the most part to a generation more given to prospecting for bezants in fields of peace than the pursuit of glory in the ruggeder fields of war.
He offered besides to deposit the sum of two thousand bezants to the general expenses of the expedition, to surrender to the use of the Christian armament those equipped vessels which he had provided, and which even now awaited the embarkation of himself and his followers.
Not for ten thousand bezants! more gold than they have had in their treasury at one time in ten years! enough to set up three empires of such dwindle! To what is the world coming?" An hour or so later, he was told of the total failure of his second proclamation. The information drove him with increased speed across the floor.
Master Headley would not trust one of the boys with the good silver coins that had been paid as the price of the sword French crowns and Milanese ducats, with a few Venetian gold bezants but he bade them go as guards to Tibble, for it was always a perilous thing to carry a sum of money through the London streets. Tibble was not an unwilling messenger.
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