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cens, but that he ment to go through with the worke, 

 that he had begunne. Whereupon sending a message 

 unto Japhet, hee advised the Enghsh souldiers to come 

 downe to Acres with their fleete, and to conferre and 

 consult with him touching the besieging and assaulting 

 of the citie of Sagitta, which rising immediatly upon 

 the kings commaundement, and foorthwith hoysing up 

 the sayles of their shippes aloft with pendants and 

 stremers of purple, and diverse other glorious colours, 

 with their flagges of scarlet colour and silke, came 

 thither, and casting their ancres, rode hard by the citie. 

 The king the next day calling unto him such as were 

 privie & acquainted with his dealings, opened his griefe 

 unto the chiefs Captaines of the English men and 

 Danes, touching the slaughter of Hugh, and the death 

 of his brother, and what great confidence he reposed 

 in them concerning these warres : and that nowe there- 

 fore they being departed and dead, he must of neces- 

 sity differre the besieging of Sagitta, & for this time 

 dismisse the armie assembled. This resolution of the 

 king being spred among the people, the armie was 

 dissolved, and the Englishmen, Danes and Flemings, 

 with sailes and oares going aboard their fleete, saluted 

 the king, and returned home unto their native countries. 



The travailes of one Athelard an Englishman, 

 recorded by master Bale Centur. 2. 



Thelardus Bathoniensis Coenobii monachus, natu- 



ralium rerum mysteria, & causas omnes, dili- 

 gentia tam undecunque exquisita perscrutatus est, 

 ut cum aliquibus veteris seculi philosophis non indigne 

 conferri possit. Hie olim spectatae indolis Adolescens, 

 ut virente adhuc astate juvenile ingenium foecundaret, 

 [II. i. 16.] atque ad res magnas pararet, relicta dulci patria longin- 

 quas petiit regiones. Cum vero ^gyptum & Arabiam 

 peragrans, plura invenisset, quae ejus desiderabat animus, 

 cum magno laborum, ac literarum lucro in Angliam 



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