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A few days later, when
they were finished, the hermit went to the king and said to him:
"Sire, if your grace will give me leave, I will carry out our
plan.
Your Excellency should have all the men get ready."'
The king said that he would. In the dark of night the hermit
changed into the Moorish clothing that was prepared for him. He
went out through a back door of the castle very secretly, and no
one saw him. Then he went into the Moors' camp.
When he thought the time right, he threw the explosives into the
camp, near the tent of a great captain who was a relative of the
Moorish king. And when it was almost midnight the fire broke
out, and it grew so great and so terrible that everyone was
astonished at the enormous flames. The king and the other Moors,
unarmed, hurried to where the fire was greatest in order to put
it out. But instead of being extinguished, the more water they
threw on it, the more brightly it burned.
When the King of England saw the huge fire, he went out of the
city, armed, and with the few men he still had he attacked the
Moors.


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