[66] Saladin had but little indulgence in religious matters. The abbé Renaudot, in his manuscript history, relates that he caused a philosopher to be strangled who ventured to preach new doctrines in the city of Aleppo.
[67] [The well-known story of the discovery of Richard in Leopold’s hands, by Blondel, through the singing of a song which king and minstrel had composed together, is now believed to be apocryphal and quite fabulous.]
CHAPTER V. THE FOURTH TO THE SIXTH CRUSADES
Bound for Holy Palestine,
Nimbly we brush’d the level brine,
All in azure steel array’d;