text:  And when the people saw borne upon his bier amid the deferential silence of those iron soldiers bareheaded and with their looks towards the earth the gallant soldier so untimely stricken arrayed in his armour of glory and with a crown upon his head after the manner of the princes of Burgundy and on his finger the ruby ring of the Doge of Venice they thought upon his knightly qualities--his courtesy generosity and valour--till all memory of his illustrious parentage became effaced