DIX.
Mors eciam omnes ditissimos spoliat.
We rede in 'Cronicles' of ane þat hight Saladinus, when̛ on̛ a tyme he knew þat he sulde dye att Damaske, he callid̛ his hansman̛ vnto hym̛ & said̛; "þou at was wunt to bere my banor vnto bateƚƚ, bere now þe banor of my dead̛, þat is to say a fowle clothe, þurgℏ aƚƚ Damaske, & cry & say þus, 'Behold̛! þe kyng of þe Orient is bown̛ to dye, and he mon̛ nothyng bere with hym̛ bod þis fowle clothe.'" And onone after he dyed̛, & was won̛ in þe same clothe.
- ...Morientes in hora mortis temptati per orationes sanctorum adiuuantur. Supra de demone, iij MS. iiij. .