On me he heaped every kindness that heart could devise or hand execute.

He used to sit and question me, night after night, about everything that was in any way connected with them and their preparations.

Our mode of life, and relation to each other, during the time we spent together, was a constant theme.

He entered into the minutest details of the construction of the armour, even to a peculiar mode of riveting some of the plates, with unwearying interest.

This armour I had intended to beg of the king, as my sole memorials of the contest; but, when I saw the delight he took in contemplating it, and the consolation it appeared to afford him in his sorrow, I could not ask for it; but, at his request, left my own, weapons and all, to be joined with theirs in a trophy, erected in the grand square of the palace.