[606] _Est._, ll. 1335-45. Philip reached Acre April 13 according to Rigord, 108; Saturday in Easter week, April 20, according to _Gesta_, 161. [607] “Rex ad omnia promptissimus, ne dicam praesumptuosissimus,” _Itin._, 195. [608] _Ib._ [609] _Est._, ll. 1701-45; _Itin._, 195, 196. [610] _Est._, ll. 1749-53, and _Itin._, 196, say Richard had now forty galleys, including the five Cypriotes. [611] _Est._, ll. 1761-75, 1791-97; cf. _Itin._, 196, 197. [612] _Itin._, 197, 198. [613] _Est._, ll. 1777-90, 1813-18. [614] Called “Ebetines” by Ambrose, _Est._, l. 1967. [615] The later Deudamours, now Audimo, in the interior. [616] See _Gestes des Chiprois_, 514. [617] _Est._, ll. 1833-2056; cf. _Itin._, 199-203, _Gesta_, 166, and R. Howden, iii. 109-11. [618] The “fifteen days” come from _Est._, ll. 2061-4, and _Itin._, 203. The _Gesta_, 167, and R. Howden, iii. 110, lengthen the campaign, placing Richard’s marriage, May 12, in the middle of it instead of before its beginning. They date Isaac’s surrender Whitsun Eve, June 1; the _Itin._, 203, makes it Friday, May 31. [619] _Est._, ll. 2065-82. [620] See the complaints of a contemporary Cypriote (Greek) writer, in _Itin._, introd. clxxxvi. [621] _Gesta_, 168; cf. R. Howden, iii. 111, 112. [622] _Est._, ll. 2067-8. [623] _Gesta_, 167. [624] _Est._, ll. 2101-5. [625] _Ib._, ll. 2087, 2088; _Itin._, 204. [626] _Est._, ll. 2089-92; _Itin._, _l.c._ [627] _Gesta_, 168; R. Howden, iii. 112. The latter absurdly says the queens with the Maid of Cyprus and the greater part of the fleet reached Acre on the day of Isaac’s submission, _i. e._, June 1. It is quite clear that the whole fleet, with king, queens, and all, sailed on June 5. [628] R. Diceto, ii. 93. [629] _Est._, ll. 2129-41; cf. _Itin._, 208. [630] R. Devizes, 49. [631] _Est._, ll. 2140-60. [632] “Come si ço fust ovre de fee,” _Est._, l. 2162. [633] _Est._, ll. 2185-275; cf. _Itin._, 205-9, and the brief accounts in _Gesta_, 168, 169, R. Howden, iii. 112, and R. Diceto, ii. 93, 94. R. Devizes, 94, absurdly says Richard had 1300 men drowned, “reservando ducentos.” [634] _Est._, ll. 2142-9; _Itin._, 205; R. Diceto, ii. 93; Bohadin (_Recueil Hist. Croisades, Hist. Orientaux_, iii.), 220, 221. [635] Bohadin, _l.c._ [636] _Est._, ll. 2165-84; _Itin._, 206. The brief accounts in _Gesta_ and R. Howden say nothing of the serpents; R. Diceto, _l.c._, mentions among the contents of the ship “serpentium ignitorum plena vasa plurima”; I have thought it right to adopt the interpretation of the “serpents” which these words imply, although a curious question seems to be suggested by comparing the story with an account in the _Morning Post_ of August 14, 1914, of a captured German liner whose cargo is there said to have included “about sixty alligators and reptiles.” [637] Bohadin, 221. [638] _Est._, ll. 2194-5. [639] Bohadin, 221. [640] _Est._, ll. 2305-8.