Keep Cnut near you; he is faithful as a watch-dog, and would give his life, I am sure, for you.

I will myself be also upon my guard, for it was after all my quarrel, and the fury of this fierce knight will vent itself upon both of us if the opportunity should come.
I hear but a poor account of him among his confreres.

They say he is one of those disgraces to the name of knight who are but a mixture of robber and soldier; that he harries all the lands in his neighborhood; and that he has now only joined the Crusade to avoid the vengeance which the cries of the oppressed people had invoked from his liege lord.

I am told indeed that the choice was given him to be outlawed, or to join the Crusades with all the strength he could raise.

Naturally he adopted the latter alternative; but he has the instincts of the robber still, and will do us an evil turn, if he have the chance." Two days later the great army broke up its camp and marched south.