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seminarist — 24.08.2010 в своей непревзойденной "Истории английской литературы" пишет о Ричарде Львиное Сердце следующее:

One day under the walls of Acre, being convalescent, he had a great desire for some pork. There was no pork. They killed a young Saracen, fresh and tender, cooked and salted him, and the king ate him and found him very good; whereupon he desired to see the head of the pig. The cook brought it in trembling. The king falls a laughing, and says the army has nothing to fear from famine, having provisions ready at hand. He takes the town, and presently Saladin's ambassadors come to sue for pardon for the prisoners. Richard has thirty of the most noble beheaded, and bids his cook boil the heads and serve one to each ambassador, with a ticket bearing the name and family of the dead man. Meanwhile, in their presence, he eats his own with a relish, bids them tell Saladin how the Christians make war, and ask him if it is true that they fear him. Then he orders the sixty thousand prisoners to be led into the plain.

"They were led into the place full even.
There they heard angels of heaven;
They said: "Seigneures, tuez, tuez!
Spares hem nought, and beheadeth theze!"
King Richard heard the angels' voice,
And thanked God and the holy cross."

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