"What says the Minnesinger?
'Marry, that the rank is but the stamp of the guinea; the man is the gold.' And I tell thee, Karl of Godesberg, that yonder Gottfried is base metal." "By Saint Buffo, thou beliest him, dear Ludwig." "By Saint Bugo, dear Karl, I say sooth.

The fellow was known i' the camp of the crusaders--disreputably known.

Ere he joined us in Palestine, he had sojourned in Constantinople, and learned the arts of the Greek.

He is a cogger of dice, I tell thee--a chanter of horseflesh.

He won five thousand marks from bluff Richard of England the night before the storming of Ascalon, and I caught him with false trumps in his pocket.
He warranted a bay mare to Conrad of Mont Serrat, and the rogue had fired her." "Ha! mean ye that Sir Gottfried is a LEG ?" cried Sir Karl, knitting his brows.