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The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 08

Note 58 — Chapter IV · THE THIRD CRUSADE

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It will not be worth while to inquire whether the emperor bathed in the Cydnus or the Calycadnus: “If he went in to wash himself, he neither consulted with his health nor honour. Some say, his horse foundered under him as he passed the water; others, that he fell from him. But these several relations, as variety of instruments, make a doleful concert in this, that there he lost his life; and no wonder, if the cold water quickly quenched those few sparks of natural heat left in him at seventy years of age.”—Fuller.i

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