. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, ou, un arrangement systématique et description des plantes de l'Amérique du Nord [ressource électronique] : contenant, outre ce qu'ont été décrits par les auteurs précédents, de nombreuses nouvelles et les espèces rares, recueillies pendant douze ans voyages et de séjour dans ce pays. La botanique. ^-, i : ) I. 306 BÉRENGÈRE DE NAVARRE OP. Et comme je ne peux pas délivrer des mains de tes ennemis !" Richard ne pouvait plus rien faire que de retourner à sa reine et sœur à l'Acre. " Vous devez savoir que ce roi Richard effectué de telles prouesses de lorsqu'il était en Terre Sainte, que l'As

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. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. ^-, i: ) I. 306 BERENGARIA OP NAVARRE. and since I cannot deliver it from the hands of thine enemies!' Richard could do nothing more than return to his queen and sister at Acre. " You must know that this king Richard performed such deeds of prowess when he was in the Holy Land, that the Saracens, on seeing their horses frightened at a shadow or a bush, cried out to them, *What! dost think Melec-Ric is there?' This they were accustomed to say from the many times he had vanquished them. In hke manner, when the children of Turks or Saracens cried, their mothers said to them, ' Hush, hush! or I will give you to king Richard/ and from the terror of these words the babes were instantly quiet."' The final truce between Richard and Saladin was concluded in a fair flowery meadow'^ near Mount Tabor, where Richard was so much charmed with the gallant bearing of the ' prince of Miscreants, ' as Saladin is civilly termed in the crusading treaties, that he declared he would rather be the frierid of that brave and honest pagan, than the ally of the crafty Plulip or the brutal Leopold. It is a tradition, often cited in modem romance, but without historical foundation, that Richard offered the hand of his sister, queen Joanna, to Saladin's brother, Melee Adhel. The autumn of 1192 had commenced when king Richard concluded his peace ^nth. Saladin, and prepared to return, covered with fruitless glory, to his native dominions. A mys- terious estrangement had, at this time, taken place between him and Berengaria; yet the chroniclers do not mention that any rival liad supplanted the queen, but merely that accidents of war had divided liim from her company. As for the Cypriot princ

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