*
* Y los moros que estaban en la villa y Castillo de Gibraltar
despues que sopieron que el Rey Don Alonzo era muerto, ordenaron
entresi que ninguno non fuesse osado de fazer ningun movimiento contra
los Christianos, ni mover pelear contra ellos, estovieron todos quedos
y dezian entre ellos qui aquel dia muriera un noble rey y Gran
principe del mundo.
[And the Moors that were in the city and Castle of Gibraltar,
after they knew that King Don Alonzo was dead, ordered among
themselves that no one should dare to make any move against the
Christians, nor to start fighting against them, and they all
remained quiet and told each other that on that day had died a noble
king and a great prince of the world.]
Yusef did not long survive the enemy he had so generously
deplored. In the year 1354, as he was one day praying in the royal
mosque of the Alhambra, a maniac rushed suddenly from behind and
plunged a dagger in his side. The cries of the king brought his guards
and courtiers to his assistance. They found him weltering in his
blood. He made some signs as if to speak, but his words were
unintelligible. They bore him senseless to the royal apartments, where
he expired almost immediately. The murderer was cut to pieces, and his
limbs burnt in public to gratify the fury of the populace.
The body of the king was interred in a superb sepulchre of white
marble; a long epitaph, in letters of gold upon an azure ground,
recorded his virtues.
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