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34 being known to the pope and other Chriſtian princes they ſaid, It was unſeaſonable, unprofitable, and diſhonourable: whereupon the Cardinal Julian is ſent by the pope as his legate, to break the peace, and to abſolve the king from his oath: the young king therefore by their perſuaſion, breaks the league, and undertakes the war, with greater preparations and vigour than formerly, advancing with his army to Varna, a city upon the Pontick ſhore, doing all the miſchief he was able to the enemy's country; which as ſoon as the great Turk underſtood, he returns out of Cilicia, and enters battle with the Chriſtians; where at the firſt the Turks were beaten, and retired with great ſlaughter, being almoſt ready to fly: Amurath ſeeing all brought into extreme danger, beholding the picture of Chriſt crucified in the diſplayed enſigns of the Chriſtians, he pluckt the writing out of his boſom, wherein the late league was compriſed, and holding it in his hand with his eyes caſt up to heaven, he ſaid; Behold, thou crucified Chriſt, this is the league thy Chriſtians in thy name made with me, which they have without cauſe broken; now, if thou be a God, as they ſay thou art, and as we dream, revenge the wrong now done unto thy name and me, and ſhew thy power upon the perjured people, who in their deeds deny thee their God: It was not long after this, but the fortune of the battle was quite changed, for King Uladiſlaus was ſlain, his head cut off by a janizary, and faſtened to end of a lance; proclamation was made that it was the head of the Chriſtian king, by which the reſt were ſo daunted, that they fled; Julian the legate alſo, who exhorted to this war, was ſlain, and his dead body expoſed to the ſcorn and contempt of the common ſoldiers, for that being a prieſt, he had contrary to the law of nations adviſed, and perſuaded