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`` Do not fail me in obedience , on your life . '' And on that he clanked out again with his attendants , well-pleased with his morning 's work . As he had disposed with boyish , almost irresponsible rashness , and in flagrant contravention of all canon law , so it fell out . Don Zuleyman , wearing the bishop 's robes and the bishop 's mitre , intoned the Kyrie Eleison before noon that day in the Cathedral of Coimbra , and pronounced the absolution of the Infante of Portugal , who knelt so submissively and devoutly before him . Affonso Henriques was very pleased with himself . He made a jest of the affair , and invited his intimates to laugh with him . But Emigio Moniz and the elder members of his council refused to laugh .