Very many big words were then spoken; but, in the end, the council
agreed that the emperor had no wish to lose the friendship of the Doge
of Venice, and Count Louis, and the others who were in Constantinople;
and the emperor replied to the envoys: " I will not promise to refer
the quarrel to those who sent you, but I will go to Constantinople
without doing aught to injure the marquis." So the Emperor Baldwin
journeyed day by day till he came to Constantinople, and

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the barons, and the other people, went to meet him, and received him
as their lord with great honour.

RECONCILIATION OF BALDWIN AND BONIFACE

On the fourth day the emperor knew clearly that he had been
ill-advised to quarrel with the marquis, and then the Doge of Venice
and Count Louis came to speak to him and said: "Sire, we would pray
you to refer this matter to us, as the marquis has done." And the
emperor said he would do so right willingly. Then were envoys chosen
to fetch the marquis, and bring him thither. Of them envoys one was
Gervais of Chatel, and the second Renier of Trit, and Geoffry, Marshal
of Champagne the third, and the Doge of Venice sent two of his people.

The envoys rode day by day till they came to Demotica, and they found
the marquis with the empress his wife, and a great number of right
worthy people, and they told him how they had come to fetch him. Then
did Geoffry the Marshal desire him to come to Constantinople, as he
had promised, and make peace in such wise as might be settled by those