As it was I gained nothing by my pains.

He has accompanied the French division to Genoa; but when we meet at Sicily, where the two armies are to rendezvous, I will bring the matter before the king, as the fact that his page was certainly concerned in it must be taken as showing that he was the instigator." "It would, my lord earl, be perhaps better," Cuthbert said, "if I might venture to advise, to leave the matter alone.

No doubt the count would say that he had discharged his page after the tournament, and that the latter was only carrying out his private feud with me.

We should not be able to disprove the story, and should gain no satisfaction by the matter." The earl admitted the justice of Cuthbert's reasoning, but reserved to himself the task of punishing the author of the outrage upon the first fitting opportunity.
There was a weary delay at Marseilles before the expedition set sail.
This was caused by the fact of the English fleet, which had been ordered to be there upon their arrival, failing to keep the agreement.
The words English fleet badly describe the vessels which were to carry the English contingent to their destination.

They were ships belonging to the maritime nations of Italy--the Venetians, Genoese, Pisans, etc.; for England at that time had but few of her own, and these scarcely fitted for the stormy navigation of the Bay of Biscay.
King Richard, impatient as ever of delay, at last lost his temper, and embarked on board a ship with a few of his chosen knights, and set sail by himself for Sicily, the point at which the two armies of the expedition were to reunite.