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`` What ? '' answered the Emperor , `` and so lose all the fruits of an enterprise , the preparations for which have already cost us so much in actual expense ; and , were our heart made of the same stuff with that of ordinary mortals , would have cost us so much more in vexation and anxiety ? No , no ; issue warning to the crusaders , who are still on the hither side , that farther rendering of homage is dispensed with , and that they repair to the quays on the banks of the Bosphorus , by peep of light to-morrow . Let our admiral , as he values his head , pass every man of them over to the farther side before noon . Let there be largesses , a princely banquet on the farther bank -- all that may increase their anxiety to pass . Then , Agelastes , we will trust to ourselves to meet this additional danger , either by bribing the venality of Bohemond , or by bidding defiance to the crusaders . Their forces are scattered , and the chief of them , with the leaders themselves , are all now -- or by far the greater part -- on the east side of the Bosphorus .