to exalt Thy name."

5 As is well known, before swords were made with shell and
stool hilts, the two guards combined with the handle and
blade formed a cross. Bayard, when dying, raised his sword
to gaze upon this cross, and numerous instances, similar to
that mentioned above by Queen Margaret, may be found in the
old _Chansons de Geste_.--M.

The gentleman called John, seeing that his master's life was ebbing away
as he uttered these words, thought to aid him, and took him into his
arms, together with the sword which he was holding. But a Turk who was
behind them cut through both his thighs, whereupon he cried out, "Come,
Captain, let us away to Paradise to see Him for whose sake we die," and
in this wise he shared the poor Captain's death even as he had shared
his life.

The Turk, seeing that he could be of no service to either of them, and
being himself wounded by arrows in fifteen places, made off towards
the ships, and requested to be taken on board. But although of all the
eighty he was the only one who had escaped, the Captain's traitorous
comrade refused his prayer. Nevertheless, being an exceeding good
swimmer, he threw himself into the sea, and exerted himself so well that
he was at last received on board a small vessel, where in a short time
he was cured of his wounds. And it was by means of this poor foreigner
that the truth became fully known, to the honour of the Captain and the
shame of his comrade, whom the King and all the honourable people who
heard the tidings deemed guilty of such wickedness toward God and man
that there was no death howsoever cruel which he did not deserve. But
when he returned he told so many lies, and gave so many gifts, that not
only did he escape punishment, but even received the office of the man
whose unworthy servant he had been.

When the pitiful tidings reached the Court, the Lady-Regent, who held
the Captain in high esteem, mourned for him exceedingly, as did the King
and all the honourable people who had known him. And when the lady whom
he had loved the best heard of his strange, sad, and Christian death,
she changed the chiding she had resolved to give him into tears and
lamentations, in which her husband kept her company, all hopes of their
journey to Jerusalem being now frustrated.

I must not forget to say that on the very day when the two gentlemen
were killed, a damsel in the lady's service, who loved the gentleman
called John