For this cruelty the Pisans were much blamed through all the world where it was known; not so much for the Count’s sake, as on account of his crimes and treasons he perhaps deserved such a death, but for the sake of his children and grandchildren, who were young and innocent boys; and this sin, committed by the Pisans, did not remain unpunished.” Chaucer’s version of the story in the “Monkes Tale” is as follows:⁠— “Of the erl Hugelin of Pise the langour Ther may no tonge tellen for pitee. But litel out of Pise stant a tour, In whiche tour in prison yput was he, And with him ben his litel children three, The eldest scarsely five yere was of age: Alas! fortune, it was gret crueltee Swiche briddes for to put in swiche a cage. Dampned was he to die in that prison, For Roger, which that bishop of Pise, Had on him made a false suggestion, Thurgh which the pcplc gan upon him rise, And put him in prison, in swiche a wise, As ye han herd; and mete and drinke he had So smale, that wel unnethe it may suffise, And therwithal it was ful poure and bad. And on a day befell, that in that houre, Whan that his mete wont was to be brought, The gailer shette the dores of the toure; He hered it wel, but he spake right nought. And in his herte anon ther fell a thought, That they for hunger wolden do him dien; Alas!