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Updated: May 18, 2025
And yet there is at Alexandria a fair church, all white without paintures; and so be all the other churches that were of the Christian men, all white within, for the Paynims and the Saracens made them white for to fordo the images of saints that were painted on the walls.
And when they were come into their own realms, they preached to all the people what they had seen and done on their journey; and they made in their temples a star after the likeness of that which appeared to them, wherefore many paynims left their errors and worshipped the Holy Child.
Everything had been settled about luggage, hours of starting, and routes as regarded their few first days; and the common purse had been made over to George. That portion of Mr Grey's letter had been read which alluded to the Paynims and the glasses of water, and everything had passed in the best of good-humour.
In my youth I swore to make no pact with Paynims, and in my eld I will not break that vow. While I can lift sword I will defend my daughter, even against the might of Saladin. Get to your coward's work again, and let things go as God has willed them." "Then, Princess," answered El-Hassan, "bear me witness throughout the East that I am innocent of your father's blood.
Moreover, in times past, the heathen or paynims implored the assistance of five deities, or of one helpful, at least, in five several good offices to those that were to be married. Of this sort were the nuptial Jove, Juno, president of the feast, the fair Venus, Pitho, the goddess of eloquence and persuasion, and Diana, whose aid and succour was required to the labour of child-bearing.
They drove with the wind along the coast of Aumarie, and the galleys and warships of the Saracens put out to meet them. Be assured that this was no fair meeting, for the Paynims took them and led them before the Soudan, who was lord of that realm. There they gave him the goods and the bodies of these Christians as a gift.
"Under the stone you behold, Buried, and coffined, and cold, Lieth Sir Wilfrid the Bold. "Always he marched in advance, Warring in Flanders and France, Doughty with sword and with lance. "Famous in Saracen fight, Rode in his youth the good knight, Scattering Paynims in flight. "Brian the Templar untrue, Fairly in tourney he slew, Saw Hierusalem too.
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