קכר SIEGE OF SAN DAMIANO. 387 they stretched not forth their hand unto the prey*. Also unto the rest of the cities of Montferrat the French went and took them; and there was no city which was too strong for them†, except Casale and Turin, for they are fenced, and no stranger passeth among them until this day. 1124. And the marquess hastened unto Milan and gathered together soldiers, for the fear of the French fell upon him, and the heart of the people melted and became like water. 1125. In those days about twelve thousand men were gathered together in Mirandola in the name of the king, and Pietro Strozzi, the son of Filippo, was captain over them. And they removed from thence, and went unto Piacenza, for there was peace between the king and between Paul the pope in those days. And they came unto the east of Lombardy, and the marquess would not suffer them to pass through his borders§; so they turned from him when they saw war, and went through crooked ways||; and the soul of the people was grieved because of the way¶, for want of everything; and he hastened to pass over the mountains, for the famine was sore, and Carignano *Esth. ix. 10. 16. Job. xv. 19. + Deut. ii. 36. Judges v. 6. margin. Num xxi. 4. 388 SIEGE OF LUXEMBURG. קכר was straitly shut up; none went out and none came in*. 1126. Now the emperor was yet fighting on the borders of Flanders in those days. And his hosts were besieging the city of Luxemburg, which the king had taken to himself, and they battered its walls round about, and cast up trenches against it. And they went out unto them for peace; and the city was given into the hand of Don Ferrante Gonzaga, the chief of the host, on the second day of the month of June, which is the fourth month; and they left there the men of the king and the battering-rams; and they went their way and France was exceedingly grieved. 1127. The king of England also turned to be an enemy† in those days, unto the king of France, and fought against the king of Scotland, a confederate of the king, and took some of the cities of the kingdom; and they fortified themselves therein. In France also he fought hard against the king, when his soul desired to possess the dwellingplaces which were not his‡. 1128. And Pietro Strozzi came into the borders of Saravalle, which is by Tortona, on the fourth day of the month of June; and behold, the marquess came against him with a numerous people, * Joshua vi. 1. ‡ Habakkuk i. 6. + Isa. lxiii. 10. קכה STROZZI DEFEATED. 389 and with a strong hand; and he divided the people that were with him*. And the men of Strozzi passed over the river Scribiat with a high hand. And they were ready to go up; and the men of the marquess drew back, for they were troubled at their presences. And many of the first camp fled at their cry, and cast their weapons of war unto the ground, and their lives were unto them a prey. And the men of Strozzi turned after lucre||; and it came to pass when the second camp of the marquess drew nigh, that those who had stumbled were girded with strength¶. And they pursued after them, and the marquess's riders upon the swift horses came near, and fought against them with strength; and the men of Strozzi fled by seven ways**, for evil was determined against them. And they also cast away their weapons [p] of war and the coverings of their feet, according as the men of the marquess had done, and fled for their lives. Then were the horse-hoofs broken by means of the prancings of the soldiers††, and they returned from pursuing after them. And the men of the marquess took all the baggage which they left there in their haste, and gave praise unto God; * Gen. xxxii. 7 (8). Deut. i. 41. 1 Sam. viii. 3. ** Comp. Deut. xxviii. 7. .סקריביאה + § Gen. xlv. 3. 390 BARBAROSSA IN TOULON. קכה and the peasants also filled their hand and stripped the fugitives; thus they went their way naked, and were not ashamed; for the time of their visitation was come. And those who died among them all, were about one hundred and twenty men. And many of the officers of the host were taken alive; and they put them in prison. 1129. And Pietro enlarged his steps, so that his feet did not slip on that day*. And he fled all that day and all that night, he and the two hundred men who were with him, who rode upon horses ; and he looked not behind him until he came to a land inhabited, unto the borders of Piedmontt, for he feared for his life. 1130. And Barbarossa abode in Toulon many days; and they sent unto him from Algier twenty galleys, which met large ships carrying corn and bread and garments, and took them and sent them away unto their own country. Then he brought forth the Turks who were in the ships of the king from the furnace of iron§; he left no gleanings therein. And many of his men died in that country, because the water and the air were naught||, and because of the terrible frost. And * 2 Sam. xxii. 37. + Exod. xvi. 35. .טולון ! § 1 Kings viii. 51; i. e. The Turkish galley slaves were set at liberty. || 2 Kings ii. 19. קכה BARBAROSSA NEAR GENOA. 391 he was much grieved in his heart, and said, "I will go and return unto my own country, lest peradventure I see the evil which shall find out my people*." And unto the servants of the king he revealed not his secret; and no man knew the thoughts of his heart until that day. 1131. And it came to pass, when Barbarossa was yet scarce gone out from the sea of Provencet, that the lords of Genoa feared greatly because of him. And they fortified the city, and brought soldiers into the midst thereof, and set up the battering-rams; then fled Genoa, and the inhabitants of her villages strengthened themselves and gathered themselves togethert into the fenced cities; and the rest fled unto the mountains, for they were troubled at his presence. And Barbarossa drew nigh, and passed the sea of Genoa in the month of May, three hundred and four, which is the third month, and they took near Savona a large ship which came from Spain; and they brought the captain down unto the grave in blood, for the soul of Barbarossa was embittered against them. And Andrea Doria, the chief of the emperor's host, sent unto him a present of the best fruits of the land§. And the servants of Andrea * i. e. Come upon my people. Gen. xliv. 34. margin. § Comp. Gen. xliii. 11. |