It is said that he had a fit of hard sobbing when he saw this dreadful sight.

He would not suffer the host to approach the burning city, but took to his bed, turned his face to the tent-wall, and refused alike housel and meat.

News, and of the worst, came fast.

The French were at Chateaudun, the Countess of Brittany's men were threatening Anjou from the north; all Touraine with Saumur and a chain of border castles were subject to Richard his son.

These things he heard without moving from his bed or opening his eyes.
After a week of this misery two of his lords, the Marshal, namely, and Bishop Hugh of Durham, came to his bedside and told him, 'Sire, here are come ambassadors from France speaking of a peace.