316.)] In England it was said that between Saint-Denys and Saint-George there had been born to King Henry V and Madame Catherine of France a boy, half English and half French, who would go to Egypt and pluck the Grand Turk's beard.[894] On his death-bed the conqueror Henry V was listening to the priests repeating the penitential psalms.

When he heard the verse: _Benigne fac Domine in bona voluntate tua ut aedificentur muri Jerusalem_, he murmured with his dying breath: "I have always intended to go to Syria and deliver the holy city out of the hand of the infidel."[895] These were his last words.

Wise men counselled Christian princes to unite against the Crescent.

In France, the Archbishop of Embrun, who had sat in the Dauphin's Council, cursed the insatiable cruelty of the English nation and those wars among Christians which were an occasion of rejoicing to the enemies of the Cross of Christ.[896] [Footnote 894: Felix Rabbe, _Jeanne d'Arc en Angleterre_, Paris, 1891, p.

12.] [Footnote 895: Monstrelet, vol.iv, p.112.Vallet de Viriville, _Histoire de Charles VII_, vol.i, p.