[Footnote 65: This lively description is extracted from
Ducas, (c. 39,) who two years afterwards was sent ambassador
from the prince of Lesbos to the sultan, (c. 44.) Till
Lesbos was subdued in 1463, (Phranza, l. iii. c. 27,) that
island must have been full of the fugitives of
Constantinople, who delighted to repeat, perhaps to adorn,
the tale of their misery.]