noon
And whereas they did not sit at the upper table , it was only by reason that old Jordan , sixty years ago , had deemed it a burthensome honor , and more than his due ; and Young Kubbeling would in all things do as his father had done before him . My seat was where I might see them , and an empty chair stood between me and my aunt ; this was left for Master Ulsenius , the leech . This good man loved not to ride after dark , by reason of highway robbers and plunderers , and some of us were somewhat ill at ease at his coming so late . Notwithstanding this , the talk was not other than cheerful ; new guests had come to us from the town at noon , and they had much to tell . Tidings had come that the Sultan of Egypt had fallen upon the Island of Cyprus , and that the Mussulmans had beaten King Janus , who ruled over it , and had carried him beyond seas in triumph to Old Cairo , a prisoner and loaded with chains . Hereupon we were instructed by that learned man , Master Eberhard Windecke , who was well-read in the history of all the world -- he had come to Nuremberg as a commissioner of finance from his Majesty , and Uncle Tucher had brought him forth to the Forest -- he , I say , instructed us that the forefather of this King Janus of Cyprus had seized upon the crown of Jerusalem at the time of the crusades , during the lifetime of the mighty Sultan Saladin , by poison and perjury , and had then bartered it with the English monarch Richard Coeur de lion , in exchange for the Kingdom of Cyprus . That ancestor of King Janus was by name Guy de Lusignan , and the sins of the fathers , so Master Windecke set forth with flowers of eloquence , were ever visited on the children , unto the third and fourth generation .