History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 2
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain 2
William Hickling Prescott
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To surrender to others the post committed to their own keeping, would be a dishonour they could not endure. "When the letter of the grand-master arrived, their mortification was extreme ; and it was not diminished by the cool and cuttia? contempt but thinly veiled under a show of solicitude for their personal safety. They implored the bailiff of Negropont to write in their name to La y alette, and beseech him not to sub- ject them to such a disgrace. They avowed their penitence for the course t...hey had taken, and only asked that they might now be allowed to give such proofs of devotion to the cause as should •atone for their errors. The letter was despatched by a swimmer across the harbour. But the grand-master coldly answered, that veterans without subordination were in his eyes of less worth than raw recruits who submitted to discipline. The wretchedness of the knights at tins repulse was unspeakable; for in their eyes dishonour was tax worse than death. In their extremity they addressed temselves again to La Valette, renewing their protestations of THE ASSAT7XT.
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