The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in Modern Spelling, with Three Narratives, in Illustration of It, from Hakluyt's "Navigations, Voyages & Discoveries." |
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Akon amongst anon Baatu Babylon beasts Belian called carts castle Cathay Chaldea Cham Chan CHAPTER Chingis Christ Christian church clepe clept cloths Comanians cometh Constantinople court Cyprus death desert diverse drink Duke dwell earth Egypt emperor Ethiopia fair city father feast flesh foresaid Friar full fair goeth gold hand hath head hill holy horses Howbeit idol inhabitants isle Jerusalem Jews journey king kingdom land lieth Lord maketh Mandeville manner marvel men clepe mile milk Mongals Mount mountains natheles Nestorians nigh night noble often-time Paradise Pascatir pass Persia precious stones Prester John province rich river runneth Saint Saint Peter saith Saracens Sartach side silver slain slay Soldaia soldan Tanais Tartars temple thence therein thereof things thither thou travelled trees trow unto vale victuals Wherefore wine women wont worship ye shall understand
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Page 12 - And some men say, that in the isle of Lango is yet the daughter of Ypocras, in form and likeness of a great dragon, that is a hundred fathom of length, as men say, for I have not seen her. And they of the isles call her Lady of the Land. And she lieth in an old castle, in a cave, and sheweth twice or thrice in the year, and she doth no harm to no man, but if men do her harm. And she was thus changed and transformed, from a fair damosel, into likeness of a dragon, by a goddess that was clept Diana....
Page 41 - ... known to all men, of his merciful grace. And when she had thus said, she entered into the fire, and anon was the fire quenched and out ; and the brands that were burning became red rose-trees, and the brands that were not kindled became white rose-trees, full of roses.
Page xix - Evil deserved : for He thought never Evil nor did Evil : and He that was King of Glory and of Joy, might best in that Place suffer Death ; because He chose in that Land rather than in any other, there to suffer His Passion and His Death. For he that will publish anything to make it openly known, he will make it to be cried and pronounced in the middle Place of a Town ; so that the Thing that is proclaimed and pronounced, may...
Page 159 - And in that plain, every day at the sun-rising, begin to grow small trees, and they grow till mid-day, bearing fruit; but no man dare take of that fruit, for it is a thing of faerie. And after mid-day, they decrease and enter again into the earth, so that at the going down of the sun they appear no more. And so they do, every day.
Page 152 - ... maketh no money but of leather imprinted or of paper. And of that money is some of greater price and some of less price, after the diversity of his statutes. And when that money hath run so long that it beginneth to waste, then men bear it to the emperor's treasury and then they take new money for the old. And that money goeth throughout all the country and throughout all his provinces, for there and beyond them they make no money neither of gold nor of silver ; and therefore he may dispend enough,...
Page 13 - And he departed from her and went to his fellows to ship, and let make him knight, and came again upon the morrow, for to kiss this damsel. And when he saw her come out of the cave in form of a dragon, so hideous and so horrible, he had so great dread, that he fled again to the ship, and she followed him.
Page 177 - Paradise terrestrial, as wise men say, is the highest place of earth, that is in all the world. And it is so high that it toucheth nigh to the circle of the moon, there as the moon...
Page xx - ... specially for them, that will and are in purpose for to visit the Holy City of Jerusalem and the holy places that are thereabout.
Page 279 - And again he commanded me to speak. Then I thinking of prayer unto God, because I kneeled on both my knees, began to pray on this wise: Sir, we beseech the Lord, from whom all good things do proceed, and who hath given you these earthly benefits, that it would please him hereafter to make you partaker of his heavenly blessings : because the former without these are but vain and unprofitable. And I added further, Be it known unto you of a certainty, that you shall not obtain the joys of heaven, unless...
Page 227 - But their intent and purpose is (as I have above said) to subdue the whole world unto themselves, as they were commanded by Chingis Can. Hence it is that the emperor in his letters writeth after this manner : The power of God, and emperor of all men.