would in no wise give way, stayed where he was, and then turned
back to his tents."

After this, according to Robert of Clari, Lord Peter's men break
open a gate, and.the Crusaders enter into the city. See Li Estoires
de chiaus qus conquisent Constantinoble. de Robert de Clari en
aminois, chevalier, pp. 60-62. The volume in the British Museum is
undated, and there is this note in the catalogue, " No more
printed." The volume itself is noteless, though there are printed
marks here and there which would suggest that notes were intended.
The Chronicle of Robert of Clari win also be found in Hopf's
Chroniques Gréco-romanes inédites ou peu connues, etc., pp. 1-85,
Berlin, 1873.]

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When the knights see this, who are in the transports, they land, and
raise their ladders against the wall, and scale the top of the wall by
main force, and so take four of the towers. And all begin to leap out
of the ships and transports and galleys, helter-skelter, each as best
he can; and they break in some three of the gates and enter in; and
they draw the horses out of the transports; and the knights mount and
ride straight to the quarters of the Emperor Mourzuphles. He had his
battalions arrayed before his tents, and when his men see the mounted
knights coming, they lose heart and fly; and so goes the emperor
flying through the streets to the castle of Bucoleon.

Then might you have seen the Greeks beaten down; and horses and
palfreys captured, and mules, and other booty. Of killed and wounded
there was neither end nor measure. A great part of the Greek lords had