Don Sancho had no call to love France; but he feared England greatly--the horrible old brindled Lion, and Richard, offspring of the Lion and the Pard, Richard the Leopard, who made more songs and fought more quarrels out than any Christian prince.

Here were quodlibets for Don Sancho's logic.

In appearance he was a pale vexed man, with anxious eyes and a thin beard, at which (in his troubles) he plucked as often as he could afford the hairs.

Next to his bleached lands he loved minstrels and physicians.

Averrhoes was often at his court; so were Guillem of Cabestaing and Peire Vidal.