noon
` The flowers of arnica , noble Emir , of which the Lady Eva spoke . I wish the potion had been made in the new moon ; however , it has been blessed . Two things alone now are wanting , that my lord should drink it , and that it should cure him . ' It was not yet noon when Tancred quaffed the potion . He took it without difficulty , though apparently unconscious of the act . As the sun reached its meridian height , Tancred sank into a profound slumber . Fakredeen rushed away to tell Eva , who had now retired into the innermost apartments of the pavilion of Amalek ; Baroni never quitted the tent of his lord .