Note 15 — EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I. (continued 2)
Henry Yule translation
After the capture of Acre, Richard orders 60,000 Saracen prisoners to be executed:—
“They wer brought out off the toun, Save twenty, he heeld to raunsoun. They wer led into the place ful evene: Ther they herden Aungeles off Hevene: They sayde: ‘Seynyors, tuez, tuez! ‘Spares hem nought! Behedith these!’ Kyng Rychard herde the Aungelys voys, And thankyd God, and the Holy Croys.” —Weber, II. 144.
Note that, from the rhyme, the Angelic French was apparently pronounced “Too-eese! Too-eese!”