Therefore the blood of this de la Roche is on his head.

Yet these are small matters of private conduct, and one that is greater overtops them.

This false lord, as Sir Edmund Acour, swore fealty to Edward of England.

Yet while he was bound by that sacred oath he plotted to depose Edward and to set up on his throne the Duke of Normandy.
"The King of England learned of that plot through me, and gave me charge to kill or capture the traitor.

But when we came face to face in a consecrated church where I thought it sacrilege to draw sword, he, who had just done me bitter wrong, stayed not to answer the wrong.