ABSTRACT

And when he had done this, he wished to gladden them still more and he commanded that, on the next day, every man should be in the said square to receive pay for four months in fine gold. And so you may imagine what joy there was in the host and with what good will they served him henceforth. And so, next day, he had four m onths’ pay given them, in order that every man should prepare, on the following day, to go to the war.