I pray thee: Six of the citizens of Calais are reported to have acted nearly in the same manner, when they surrendered their city to Edward the Third, king of England, in 1346. See the whole story circumstantially related by Sir John Froissart (who lived in that time), with that simplicity and detail that give it every appearance of truth.
put sackcloth: 1Ki 21:27-29; Gen 37:34; 2Sa 3:31, 2Sa 14:2; 2Ki 19:1-2; Est 4:1-3; Isa 22:12; Isa 37:1; Jon 3:5-6; Rev 11:3
peradventure: 2Ki 7:4; Est 4:16; Job 2:4; Mat 10:28