"King Richard had appointed him King of Jerusalem; and, though he liked him not, thought him the fittest of those there to exercise sovereignty.

He was the last man who would have had an enemy assassinated; for so open is he of disposition, that he would have fought hand to hand with the meanest soldier of his army, had he desired to kill him." "I doubt not that it is so, since you tell me," the knight said courteously.

"But the people here have taken that idea into their minds, and it will be hard to disabuse them.

You must therefore keep up your disguise as a French knight while passing through this neighbourhood.
Another week's journeying, and you will reach the confines of Saxony, and there you will, as you anticipate, be safe.

But I would not answer for your life were you discovered here to be of English birth.