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438 HISTORY or the CliUSADES,
torrents of blood for Tain treaties, whilst the very Grospel,
that solemn treaty between God and men, is being outraged
Have vou forgotten the deeds of your fathers ? A Chiistian
kingdom was founded by them in the midst of Mussulinan
nations. A crowd of heroes, a crowd of princes born
in vour countrv, went to defend and govern it. K you have
permitted tlieir work to perish, come at least and deliver
their tombs, which are in the power of the Saracens. Does
vour Europe no longer produce such warriors as Grodfi^y,
Tancred. and their companions ? The prophets and saints
buried at Jerusalem, the churches transformed into mosques,
the very stones of the sepulchres, all cry to you to avenge
the glory of God and the death of your brethren. VThaX !
whv^the blood of Xaboth, the blood of Abel which arose
towards heaven, foimd avengers, and shall the blood of
Christ arise in vaia against his enemies and his execu-
tioners ?
" The East has beheld base Cliristians, whom avarice and
fear have rendered the allies of Saladin ; I do not suspect
thev will find imitators among you; but remember what
' Christ has said : He iclw is not for me is against me.' If
you do not defend the cause of God, what cause will you
dare defend ? If the kins: of heaven and earth find vou not
beneath his colours, where are the powers whose standards
you will follow r "WTiy then are the enemies of God no
lono^er the enemies of all Christians ? ^Tiat will be the joy
of the Saracens amidst their impious triumphs, when they
shall be told that the AVest has no more warriors faithful to
Christ, and that the princes and kings of Europe have learnt
with iudifierence the disasters and captivity of Jerusalem r"
These reproaches made in the name of religion afiected
the hearts of the princes and knights deeply. Henry II.
and Pliilip Augustus, to that time implacable enemies, embraced
each other in tears, and put themselves forward the
first to receive the cross. Eichard, duke of Guienne, son
of Henry, Philip, count of Flanders, Hugh, duke of Burgundy,
Henr}', count of Champagne, Thibaut, count of
Blois, Eetrou, count of Perche, the counts of Xevers, de
Bar, Tendome. Soissons, the two brothers Josselin and
Matthew de ^Montmorency, "svith a crowd of barons and
knights, together with several bishops of Prance and Eng-
!