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Updated: June 4, 2025
To which a second voice answered: “They are for the charming daughter of the Emir Fakreddin.” “What,” replied the first, “for that trifler, who consumes her time with a giddy child, immersed in softness, and who at best can make but an enervated husband?”
I will engage that everything shall succeed to the bent of your wishes.” “Be it so!” said Fakreddin. “I approve your proposal; let us lose not a moment to give it effect.” They forthwith hastened to seek for the powder, which, being mixed in a sherbet, was immediately drank by Gulchenrouz and Nouronihar.
This conversation was cut short by Fakreddin, who came to request that Vathek would join in the prayers and ablutions to be solemnised on a spacious meadow, watered by innumerable streams.
Wherever the Caliph directed his course objects of pity were sure to swarm round him: the blind, the purblind, smarts without noses, damsels without ears, each to extol the munificence of Fakreddin, who, as well as his attendant grey-beards, dealt about gratis plasters and cataplasms to all that applied.
In fact, his demeanour was such that the Saracen chiefs exchanged glances of surprise. 'Who are you? asked Fakreddin. 'My name is Muschamp, and I am a subject of the King of England. 'And what brought you to Egypt? 'I came to fight for the Holy Sepulchre. 'And, asked Bibars Bendocdar, sternly, 'know you not that passage in the Koran which says that they who make war unjustly shall perish?
It was one of the brothers-in-arms. It was Guy Muschamp. AT the time when Guy Muschamp was dragged away as a captive to the camp of the Saracens at Djedilé, the emir Fakreddin sat in his pavilion.
Every cheek grew pale; and the Egyptians exhibited such anxiety and terror as had never before been felt in their cities. At this crisis, Fakreddin, to whom the sultana had entrusted the command of the Egyptian army, took measures to reanimate his countrymen with courage and confidence, and called upon them to hazard their lives freely for their religion.
Fakreddin beginning also to recover from the look of the Caliph, with difficulty tottered to a seat, and after warily casting round his eye to see if this dangerous prince was gone, sent for Shaban and Sutlememe, and said to them apart: “My friends! violent evils require as violent remedies; the Caliph has brought desolation and horror into my family, and how shall we resist his power? another of his looks will send me to my grave.
Now, Fakreddin no sooner observed that the Crusaders were at work, than he perceived his advantage, and vowed that the causeway should never be completed; and, while workmen, protected by machines of war and wooden castles, were occupied with its construction, the Saracens spared no pains to retard the operations.
'Saracen, replied Guy, proudly, 'an Anglo-Norman gentleman does not regulate his conduct by the Koran. 'However, said Fakreddin, waving his hand, 'it is needful that you answer some questions as to the army of Franks, and that you answer truly. 'Saracen, replied Guy, resolutely, 'I will not answer a question on the subject.
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