[658] Est., ll. 4605-8; Itin., 214; cf. Gesta, 170, and see M. Gaston Paris’s remarks in his introduction to Est., p. lxxiii.

[659] Est., ll. 4609-88, Itin., 215, 216, Bohadin, 222. The dates are from Bohadin, whose narrative is by far the clearest; the western writers have confused the two assaults, and the date in the Itinerarium is impossible.

[660] Gesta, 170; R. Howden, iii. 113.

[661] Est., l. 4808; Itin., 220.

[662] Bohadin, 222-4, 227, 228.

[663]

“Car nus reis n’iert mielz entechies

Fors d’une teche qu’il aveit,

Cele que nul mal ne saveit;

Cele que l’em clame simplesse.”