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Updated: May 27, 2025
'It seems, said Guy Muschamp, who lay prostrate with sickness in the tent of the Lord of Joinville, 'it seems that Heaven has abandoned the soldiers of the Cross. 'Hem, replied Bisset, to whom this was addressed, 'I see not why Heaven should be blamed for the evils which men bring on themselves by their own folly.
IT was not the good fortune of all the warriors who had taken the Cross to escape the perils of the deep, and reach Cyprus in safety. About a month after Guy Muschamp and Walter Espec had reached Limisso, a tall ship bearing a Crusader of noble name, who had left Constantinople to combat the Saracens under the banner of St.
And Joinville went as the constable requested; and while his companions were pursuing their way towards the king's red pavilion that pavilion in which the Emir Fakreddin had boasted he would dine on the day of St. Sebastian Guy Muschamp approached Bisset, the English knight, and entreated his attention.
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?
'And what say you on the point, my gay and puissant warrior? asked Bisset, turning to Guy Muschamp. 'Oh, answered Guy, merrily, 'as says the good Walter, so say I, neither to Jerusalem nor to Constantinople do I go. I have a father and mother and kindred at home, whose faces I long to see. Wherefore, I go to England, and to no other place.
A dozen of the men dashed knee-deep into the water to relieve Walter of his burden; and as they did so, a dozen of the women stretched out their hands, and received the still unconscious form of her who had been rescued; meanwhile the knight and Guy Muschamp caught hold of Walter, who, fatigued and overcome with his almost superhuman exertions, would otherwise have fallen to the ground.
He was about to prove himself one of the most formidable foes whom the soldiers of the Cross had ever been under the necessity of encountering. Into the presence of the Emir Fakreddin and Bibars Bendocdar young Guy Muschamp, drenched and agitated, was carried. Alarmed as he well might be, the squire exhibited a dauntless air and presented a bold front.
'One of the sailors was desirous of turning hermit, and I doubt not he has seized so fair an opportunity. Walter Espec and Guy Muschamp exchanged glances. It was Beltran the renegade, who had thus devoted himself to solitude. 'Well, said the king, on hearing this, 'let three sacks of biscuit be left on the shore; the man may find them, and, if so, they will serve for sustenance.
'We may as well ride on,'said Guy Muschamp, who, like his companions, was very much affected; 'all of them have perished, and are now beyond the reach of human aid. 'Not all of them, exclaimed Walter Espec, suddenly, as he sprang from his horse, and, with out-stretched arm, pointed to a white object which was carried hither and thither by the waves.
Meanwhile, the attendants of the ambassadors filled the chamber, with alarm on their faces; and thither also Guy Muschamp and his fellow captives found their way, closely followed by the aged Saracen, who bowed himself before Bisset and exclaimed 'In the name of God, save me! 'Save you, Saracen! said Bisset. 'On my faith, I cannot but think that the man will do well this day who saves himself.
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