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"Complain to him," answered the king, pointing to Jasko of Tenczyn. The Krzyzak, looking directly into the king's face, said: "I know neither your laws nor your courts; I only know, that an envoy of the Order can complain only to the king." Jagiello's small eyes flashed with impatience; he stretched out his hand however, and accepted the complaint which he handed to Tenczynski.
It would be considered a disgrace, not only to him, but to his children also." To this Macko replied: "He would not agree. But if it were done without his knowledge, he would avenge me, even as I also will avenge him." "Ha!" said Tenczynski, "persuade the Krzyzak to withdraw the complaint." "I have asked him." "And what?" asked the king, stretching his neck; "what did he say?"
Once Tenczynski asked in marriage a daughter of a royal house, and the King gave her to him without shame.173 Are not the Soplicas of equal merit with the Tenczynskis, through their blood, through their ancient crest, and through their faithful service to the Commonwealth! “How easily a man may ruin the happiness of others in a single instant; and in a long lifetime he cannot restore it!
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