[Footnote 40: Noradinus (says William of Tyre, l. xx. 33)
maximus nominis et fidei Christianae persecutor; princeps
tamen justus, vafer, providus' et secundum gentis suae
traditiones religiosus. To this Catholic witness we may add
the primate of the Jacobites, (Abulpharag. p. 267,) quo non
alter erat inter reges vitae ratione magis laudabili, aut
quae pluribus justitiae experimentis abundaret. The true
praise of kings is after their death, and from the mouth of
their enemies.]