pitched his tents and pavilions, and Alexius was quartere within the
city. So they conferred together, and Alexius gave him his daughter to
wife, and they entered into alliance, and said they should be as one.

They sojourned thus for I know not how many days, the one in the camp
and the other in the city, and then did the Emperor Alexius invite the
Emperor MourzupWes to come and eat with him, and to go with him to the
baths. So were matters settled. The Emperor Mourzuphles came
privately, and with few people, and when he was within the house, the
Emperor Alexius called him into a privy chamber, and had him thrown on
to the ground, and the eyes drawn out of his head. And this was done
in such treacherous wise as you have heard. Now say whether this
people, who wrought such cruelty one to another, were fit to have
lands in possession I And when the host of the Emperor Mourzuphles
heard what had been done, they scattered, and fled this way and that;
and some joined themselves to the Emperor Alexius, and obeyed him as
their lord, and remained with him.

BALDWIN MARCHES AGAINST ALEXIUS-HE IS JOINED BY BONIFACE

Then the Emperor Baldwin moved from Constantinople, with all his host,
and rode forward till he came to Adrianople. There he found Henry his
brother, and the men with him. All the people whithersoever the
emperor passed, came to him, and put themselves at his mercy and under
his rule. And while they were at Adrianople, they heard the news that
the Emperor Alexius had pulled out the eyes of the Emperor
Mourzuphles. Of this there was much talk among them; and well did all
say that those who betrayed one another so disloyally and
treacherously had no right to hold land in possession.