ACRE. 2.3 
exhibit ; that " the Caliph who built them, perhaps chap. 
employed some Christian slaves in the icork.'' The v- ■y— v 
supposition itself involves an absurdity; for if 
an intolerant Moslem had given such a prefe- 
rence to Christians who were his slaves, these men 
must have been supernaturally inspired with 
architectural knowledge for the undertaking. 
Acre has been described as the scene of a 
very interesting story in English history, which 
may, however, be destitute of any real founda- 
tion in truth. It is related by Speed\ that 
Eleanor, wife of Edward the First, here drew 
the poison from her husband's arm, after he had 
been poignarded by an assassin ; applying her 
lips to the wound. " Pitie it is," says Fuller*, " so 
pretty a storie should not be true (with all the 
miracles in Love's legends)! and sure he shall 
get himself no credit, who undertaketh to con- 
fute a passage so sounding to the honour of the 
sex; yet can it not stand with what others have 
written ^ — How the physician, who was to 
dresse his wounds, spake to the Lord Edmund 
(3) See Speed's Hist, of Edward the First. 
(4) Fuller's Historic of the Holy Warre, book iv. chap. 29, p. 230. 
Camb. 165K 
(5) See Fox, Martyrolog. p. 337. 
