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What time Philip surnamed Augustus was
king of France, Saladinus Sultanus king of
Babilon, of Damascus, and of Egypt, lay at the
point of death at Ascalon, he appointed that
as soone as he was dead, his shirt should be
carried by his steward thorough out all the
cittie of Ascalon, hauing a speare thrust tho-
row the middle of it, & that the cryer should
with a loud voice proclaime as followeth.
He that of late the mightie raines,
of East did rule at will,
Now dead doth onely this conuey,
into the darkish hell.
Let euerie mightie man take this for a most
infallible token, that when death comes, he
spareth neither king nor Caesar, and that he
shall depart out of this world, as naked as the
poorest and vilest creature doth.
Restat ex victore Orientis.