The same story is told in the Cento Novelle Antiche,
as happening when the Emperor Frederic was on a visit (imaginary) to the
Veglio. And it is introduced likewise as an incident in the Romance of
Bauduin de Sebourc:
"Volles veioir merveilles? dist li Rois Seignouris"
to Bauduin and his friends, and on their assenting he makes the signal to
one of his men on the battlements, and in a twinkling
"Quant le vinrent en l'air salant de tel avis,
Et aussi liement, et aussi esjois,
Qu'il deust conquester mil livres de parisis!
Ains qu'il venist a tiere il fut mors et fenis,
Surles roches agues desrompis corps et pis,"[1] etc.
(Cathay, 153; Remusat, Nouv. Mel. I. 178; Mines de l'Orient, III.
201 seqq.; Nangis in Duchesne, V. 332; Pipino in Muratori, IX.
705; Defremery in J. As. ser. V. tom. v. 34 seqq.; Cent. Nov.
Antiche, Firenze, 1572, p. 91; Bauduin de Sebourc, I. 359.)
The following are some of the more notable murders or attempts at murder
ascribed to the Ismailite emissaries either from Syria or from Persia: -
A.D. 1092. Nizum-ul-Mulk, formerly the powerful minister of Malik Shah,
Seljukian sovereign of Persia, and a little later his two sons. 1102. The
Prince of Homs, in the chief Mosque of that city.
