“The common people took up with prostitutes, whence it happened that the king dismissed numbers of his attendants when he returned from our imprisonment; and, having inquired the reason, he told me that he knew for certain that they had pitched their huts a small stone's throw from his tent, and that in the time of the greatest mishaps the army had ever been in. ... The barons who ought to have kept their substance for good use in fit time and place, gave great feasts and costly meats, (outrageuses viandes,) &c.”