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The Romany Rye

CHAPTER XXXIX
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His great enemy himself grieved for him, and pronounced his finest eulogium.

When Mahomed the Second heard of his death, he struck his head for some time against the ground without speaking.

Suddenly he broke silence with these words, "Notwithstanding he was my enemy, yet do I bewail his loss; since the sun has shone in heaven, no Prince had ever yet such a man." _Myself_.

What was the name of his Prince?
_Hungarian_.

Laszlo the Fifth; who, though under infinite obligations to Hunyadi, was anything but grateful to him; for he once consented to a plan which was laid to assassinate him, contrived by his mortal enemy Ulrik, Count of Cilejia; and after Hunyadi's death, caused his eldest son, Hunyadi Laszlo, to be executed on a false accusation, and imprisoned his younger son, Matyas, who, on the death of Laszlo, was elected by the Magyars to be their king, on the 24th of January 1458.
_Myself_.


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