[Footnote 891: Morosini, vol. iii, pp. 64, 82 _et seq._ Christine de Pisan, in the _Trial_, vol. v, p. 16. Concerning the subject of the Crusade, cf. N. Jorga, Philippe de Mezieres, 1896, in 8vo: _Notes et extraits pour servir a l'histoire des Croisades au XV'e siecle_, Paris, 1899-1902, 3 vols. in 8vo (taken from _La revue de l'Orient Latin_).] [Footnote 892: _Pii Secundi commentarii_, 1614 edition, p. 440. Wadding, _Annales Minorum_, vol. v, pp. 130 _et seq._] [Footnote 893: _Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris_, p. 233. S. Luce, _Jeanne d'Arc a Domremy_, pp. xv, ccxxxvii. See the pictures in the numerous fifteenth century little popular books concerning Antichrist. (Brunet, _Manuel du libraire_, vol. i, col. 316.)] In England it was said that between Saint-Denys and Saint-George there had been born to King Henry V and Madame Catherine of France a boy, half English and half French, who would go to Egypt and pluck the Grand Turk's beard.[894] On his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms. When he heard the verse: _Benigne fac Domine in bona voluntate tua ut aedificentur muri Jerusalem_, he murmured with his dying breath: "I have always intended to go to Syria and deliver the holy city out of the hand of the infidel."[895] These were his last words. Wise men counselled Christian princes to unite against the Crescent. In France, the Archbishop of Embrun, who had sat in the Dauphin's Council, cursed the insatiable cruelty of the English nation and those wars among Christians which were an occasion of rejoicing to the enemies of the Cross of Christ.[896] [Footnote 894: Felix Rabbe, _Jeanne d'Arc en Angleterre_, Paris, 1891, p. 12.] [Footnote 895: Monstrelet, vol. iv, p. 112. Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol. i, p. 340.] [Footnote 896: Le P. Marcellin Fornier, _Histoire des Alpes, Maritimes ou Cottiennes_, vol. ii, pp. 315 _et seq._] To summon the English and French to take the cross together, was to proclaim that after ninety-one years of violence and crime the cycle of secular warfare had come to an end. It was to bid Christendom return to the days when Philippe de Valois and Edward Plantagenet promised the Pope to join together against the infidel. But when the Maid invited the English to unite with the French in a holy and warlike enterprise, it is not difficult to imagine with what kind of a reception the _Godons_ would greet such an angelic summons. And at the time of the siege of Orleans, the French on their side had good reasons for not taking the cross with the _Coues_.[897] [Footnote 897: In all extant copies of the Letter to the English, except that of the Trial, at the passage "you may come" [_Encore que pourrez venir_] the text is completely illegible.]