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" For her no other termes should ever tie , Then what prescribed were by lawes of chivalne . " v ., 7 , 28 . " Such is fche weakness of all mortal's hope , So fickle is the state of earthly things .

That ere they come unto their aymed scope They fall too short of our fraile reckonings , And bring us bale and bitter sorrowings Instead of comfort which we should embrace ; This is the state of keasars and of kings . " vi ., 3 , 5 .

" It is the mynd that maketh good or ill , That maketh wretch or happie , rich or poore . " vi ., 9 , 30 . " Ne wound which warlike hand of enemy Inflicts with dint of sword , so sore doth light

As doth the poyson's sting which infamy Infixeth in the name of noble wight ; For by no art nor any leaches might It ever can recured be again . " vi ., 6 , 1 .

" Like as the gentle hart itself bewrayes In doing gentle deeds with franke delight ; Even so the baser mind itself displayes In cancred malice and revengefull spight ; For to maligne t' envie , t' use shifting slight Be arguments of a vile donghill mind . " vi ., 7 , 1 .

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THE KNIGHTS TEMPLARS .

By ANTHONY ONEAL HAYE . ( Continued from page 25 ) . BOOK THIRD—CHAPTER VI .

GEAND MASTER—HERMAN DE PEEIGOED . Disastrous attach upon Guasemn . —Arrival of troops from the ivest . —State of Europe—The Emperor continues to persecute the Order . —Expedition against Hems- —Alliance withthe Sultan of Damascus—Tlie King of Navarre defeated- —Jerusalem surrendered to the Christians . — Letters of Grandmaster to England . —Quarrel with the

Hospitallers- —The Carizmans—Jerusalem abandoned-Slaughter of the Christians and the Military Orders hy the Carizmans . A - . 1231-1244-Peter de Montagu was succeeded by Herman de Perigord , Grand Preceptor of Calabria and Sicily . * The name of the new Grand Master is sometimes written Armand de Petragrossa , and sometimes Herman de Petragrocious , and several

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writers , in giving lists of the Masters , especially the Masonic writers , have assumed these names to belong to two different persons , Petragrossa reigning to 1237 , and Petragrorious to 1244 . This mistake is ludicrous , and the slightest

attention given to the subject would have discovered its absurdity . The Sultan of Aleppo , with whom a truce had been entered into , having died , the Templars resolved to enlarge their territories so as to offer a more effectual resistance to the attacks of the

Musselmen . For this purpose a band of Templars accompanied by other Christian troops , under the command of William de Montferrat , the Preceptor of Antioch , a native of Auvergne , were sent to lay siege to a fortress called Guascum , situated at

the north side of Antioch , which was then in possession of the Musselmen . They marched out in battle array , but using a certain degree of caution to conceal their approach from the enemy . In this they were unsuccessful , for an approaching

Guascum , some captive Christians , who were detained in chains by . the infidel , together with some apostates , seeing them approach , cried out to them "Flee , wretched men , flee ; why are you rushing upon your own destruction ? Tou are all dead

men . Your enemies are ready in countless numbers to massacre you by command of the Sultan of Aleppo , who has surrounded you with ambuscades . " William de Montferrat , however , paid no

attention to this warning , but proceeded to invest the place . The warnings of their brethren did not fall unheeded on the ears of the other Christians , who , calculating the chances of war , the smallness of their own force , and the multitude of enemies

that might . be brought against them , advised William to beware of his actions , till they were assured of the actual force of the enemy to be brought against them , and the position of fche ambuscades . This advice was unpalatable to the

Templar , who replied that the danger had been already incurred , the enemy was around them , and all that they had to do was to defend themselves , and , if possible , to take the castle before they were attacked by the infidel , in which case

they could defend themselves behind its walls . Several , of the Christians , however , alarmed at the state of matters , abruptly left the Templars , and took to flight , whereupon De Montferrat ordered an immediate attack to be made upon the castle . The Musselmen , informed of this by their spies