If he got little money in England, where abbeys were rich in corn but poor in pelf, and the barons had been so prompt to rob each other that they could not be robbed by the King,--he got less in Gaul, eaten up by war for a hundred years.

You cannot bleed a stuck pig, as King Richard found.

England was empty of money.

He got men enough; from one motive or another every English knight was willing to rifle the East.

He had ships enough.