King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

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MILITARY ORDERS
“Swords
may not
fight with
fate . . .
would not willingly let die. By his influ-
ence he had wrought upon the Master,
while the outer gate was still beset, to get
away disguised into safety, but he turned
and came back, saying he had rather die
with his servants than be saved crawling
through dark hidden drains like a rogue and
a worthless man. The King sent a safe-
conduct and a solemn promise to see him:
and broke both. Chacon warned him that
for the conquered the only remedy was
to expect no remedy. He answered that
he could not die in strife against the royal
standard: he laid up papers in a coffer to
be committed to the King’s hands, he
opened and distributed three chests of
money; he ate a last supper with Chacon
and those of the faithful, he gave them
sound counsel and loving words as of one
on the way to death. He sent for his seals
and a hammer and broke them up, to fore-
stall any shameful act. He did on a
harness of great price, a gift of the King
of France, and when he was in the saddle
of a great charger he bid open the gates.
They took him away and he never saw
HISPANIC NOTES