But I will not reason with one uncircumcised upon the virtue of the medicines of which I have obtained knowledge through the grace of the Prophet, and I pray you interpose no delay between me and my office." "Who talks of delay ?" said the Baron de Vaux, hastily entering the tent; "we have had but too much already.

I salute you, my Lord of Montserrat, and you, valiant Grand Master.

But I must presently pass with this learned physician to the bedside of my master." "My lord," said the Marquis, in Norman-French, or the language of Ouie, as it was then called, "are you well advised that we came to expostulate, on the part of the Council of the Monarchs and Princes of the Crusade, against the risk of permitting an infidel and Eastern physician to tamper with a health so valuable as that of your master, King Richard ?" "Noble Lord Marquis," replied the Englishman bluntly, "I can neither use many words, nor do I delight in listening to them; moreover, I am much more ready to believe what my eyes have seen than what my ears have heard.

I am satisfied that this heathen can cure the sickness of King Richard, and I believe and trust he will labour to do so.

Time is precious.