to break up the host, and had aforetime been hostile to it, spoke
together and said that the adventure to be undertaken seemed very long
and very perilous, and that they, for their part, would remain in the
island, suffering the host to depart, and that-when the host had so
departed-they would, through the people of Corfu, send to Count Walter
of Brienne, who then held Brandis, so that he might send ships to take
them thither.

I cannot tell you the names of all those who wrought in this matter,
but I will name some among the most notable of the chiefs, viz., Odo
of Champlitte, of Champagne, James of Avesnes, Peter of Amiens, Guy
the Castellan of Coucy, Oger of Saint-Chéron, Guy of Chappes and
Clerembaud his nephew, William of Aunoi, Peter Coiseau, Guy of Pesmes
and Edmund his brother, Guy of Conflans, Richard of Dampierre, Odo his
brother, and many more who had promised privily to be of their party,
but who dared not for shame openly so to avow themselves; in such sort
that the book testifies that more than half the host were in this
mind.

And when the Marquis of Montferrat heard thereof, and Count Baldwin of
Flanders, and Count Louis, and the Count of St. Paul, and the barons
who held with them, they were greatly troubled, and said: " Lords, we
are in evil case. If these people depart from us, after so many who
have departed from us aforetime, our host is doomed, and we shall make
no conquests. Let us then go to them, and fall at their feet, and cry
to them for mercy, and for God's sake to have compas-

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sion upon themselves and upon us, and not to dishonour themselves, and