The rest he carried with him to Amiens; but their leader, according to the promise which he made me, he handed over to me as my share of the day's booty, giving me every charge that he should receive good and knightly treatment.
"Which, no doubt, you will observe," the other said, with an ugly laugh.
"It is a bad business," the knight exclaimed angrily, "and were it not for our friendship, in Spain, and the memory of sundry deeds which we did together, not without profit to our purses, I would rather that you were thrown over the battlements into the river than I had taken a step in this business.

However, none can say that Phillip of Holbeaut ever deserted a friend who had proved true to him, not to mention that the sum which you promised me for my aid in this matter will, at present time, prove wondrously convenient.

Yet I foresee that it will bring me into trouble with the Count of Evreux.

Ere many days a demand will come for the fellow to be delivered on ransom." "And what will you say ?" the other asked.
"I shall say what is the truth," the knight replied, "though I may add something that is not wholly so.

I shall say that he was drowned in the Somme.