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CHAP. VIII. 



King rewards his Officers — The Author again perfecuted by Guebra 

 Mafcal — Great Dijpleafure of the King — The Author and Guebra 

 Mj/cal are reconciled and rewarded — 'Third Battle of Serbraxos. 



AFTER the engagement, as every body had accefs to the 

 king's prefence, I did not choofe to force my way 

 through the crowd, but went round through the more pri- 

 vate entry, by the bed-chamber, when I placed myfelf be- 

 hind the king's chair. As foon as he faw me, he laid, with 

 great benignity, " I have not inquired nor fent for you, be- 

 caufe I knew you would be necelTarily bufied among thofe of 

 your friends, who have been wounded to-day ; you are your- 

 felf, befides, hurt : how are you ?" I anfwered, " that I was 

 not hurt to-day, but, though often in danger, had efcaped 

 without any other harm than exceffive fatigue oceafioned 

 by heat and weight of my coat of mail, and that one of 

 my horfes was killed under Ammonios." 



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