[252] Three times in the course of the last book of the *Gesta Dei* Guibert finds something positive in the absence of Western kings on the expedition to Jerusalem. Among the practical reasons for their absence: (1) Philip I and the Holy Roman Emperor were excommunicate at the time; (2) William Rufus was anticlerical and otherwise occupied; (3) the Italian rulers were absorbed with local problems. [253] Lucan I.135. [254] Ecclesiasticus 11.5. [255] Horace, Ars Poetica 97. [256] Robert the Monk, RHC.HO III, p. 794, provides a longer passage on Gualo. [257] In Terence's *Eunuch* (I.ii.105), the slave Parmeno says he can keep silent about the truth, but must immediately speak (or leak) what is a lie. [258] RHC IV 149F. [259] 1066-1118. [260] 1104. [261] One dactylic hexameter. [262] Numbers XX.2-13; XXIII.38. [263] Fulker. [264] In RHC, p. 333, Fulker mentions 600,000. [265] Luke 12.32. [266] The *Gesta Francorum* gives his name: Gervais de Bazoches. The Deeds of God through the Franks (C)1997 by Robert Levine