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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06813	of delyces where a man shall fynde all maner of fruytes in all tymes . . .; Itinerarium. English	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399, attributed name.	1510 (1510)	STC 17249.5; ESTC S104359	30,584	65

in my coūtree are trees that bere fruyte that become byrdes fleynge they are good to ete / that that falleth in water lyued / tthat that falleth on the erthe deyed they had grete meruayle of this In this londe mani other about there are trees that bere clowes and nutmygges canell and many other spyces And there are vynes that bere so grete grapes that a stronge man shall haue ynoughe to do to bere a cluster of the grapes In that same londe are the hylles of Caspye that men call Vber / and amonge those hylles are the Iewes of the .x. kyndes enclosed within that men calle Gog and Magog and they may not come out on no syde There was enclosed .xxij. kyngꝭ with theyr folke that dwelled bytwene the hylles of Sych● and kynge Alexander chased theym thyder amonge those hylles / for he trusted for to haue enclosed theym there thorugh werkynge of m●n but he myght not / whan he sawe that he myght not he prayed to god that he wolde fulfyll that he had begonne / god herde his prayer enclosed the hylles togyder so that the Iewes dwell there as they wete locked in / there is hylles all about them but at the one syde / there is the see of Caspye And some men myght aske / there is a see on one syde why go they not out there / for there to answere I that all yf it be called a see it is noo se / but a stange stondynge amonge hylles / and it is the gretest stange of all the worlde / and yf they wente ouer the see they wote not where for too aryue / for they can noo speche but theyr owne And ye shall vnderstande that the Iewes haue no lawe of theyr owne lawe in all the worlde / but they that dwelle in those hylles / and yet they paye trybute for theyr londe to the quene of Armony And somtyme it is so that some of the Iewes goo ouer the hylles / but many men may not passe there too gyder for the hylles are so grete hyghe Neuerthelesse men saye in that countree there by that in the tyme of Antecryst they shall doo moche harme to crysten men therfore all the Iewes that dwelle in dyuerse partyes of the worlde lerne for too speke Ebrewe / for they hope that the Iewes that dwelle amonge the hylles aforesayd shal come out of the hylles they speke all Ebrewe not ell●… / and than shall thyse Iewes speke Ebrewe to theym leede theym in to crystendome for to destroye crysten men For thyse Iewes saye they wote by theyr prophecyes that those Iewes that are amōge those hylles of Caspy shall come out crysten men shall be in theyr subgeccōn as they be vnder crysten men And yf ye wyll wete how they shall fynde the passage out as I haue vnderstande I shall telle you In tyme of Antecryste a foxe shall make his denne in the same place where kynge Alexander dyde make the gates he shall dygge in the erthe so longe tyll he perce it thorugh vnto that he come amonge the Iewes And whan they se this foxe they shall haue grete meruayle of hym / for they sawe neuer suche beest / for other beestes haue they amonge theym many / and they shall chase this foxe pursue hym vnto that he be fledde agayne in to his hole that he came fro And than shall they dygge after as he wente vnto they come to the gates that Alexander dyde make of grete stones well dyght with syment / they shall breke thyse gates so shall they fynde the yssue ¶ Of the londe of Bactry and of many gryffons and other beestes ca. lxxxv FRom this londe men shall go vnto the londe of Bactry where are many wycked men and fell In that londe are trees that bere wolle as it were shepe of whiche they make cloth In this londe are many Ypotaynes that dwelle somtyme on londe / somtyme on water are halfe man and halfe hors / they ete not but men whan they may gete theym In this londe are many gryffons more than in other places / some saye they haue the body before as an agle behynde as a lyon / and they saye soth for they are made so / but the gryffon hath a body gretter than .viij. lyons and gretter stal worthyer than an hondred egles For certaynly he wyll bere to his nest fleynge an hors and a man vpon his backe or two oxen yocked samen as they go at plough / for he hath longe nayles on his feet and grete as it were hornes of oxen / and of those they make cuppes there to drynke of / and of his rybbes they make bowes to shote ¶ Of the waye for to go to prester Iohans londe whiche is Emperour of Ynde ca. lxxxvi FRo this londe of Bactry men goo many a dayes Iourney to the londe of prester Iohn that is a grete Emperour of Ynde / and men calle his londe the yle of Pantoxore This Emperour prester Iohan holdeth grete londe many good cytees good townes in his kyngdom / many grete yles large For this londe of Ynde is all departed in yles by cause of grete flodes that come out of Paradyse / also in the see are many grete yles The best cyte that is in the yle of Pantoxore is called Nyse / for that is a noble cyte and ryche Prester Iohan hath vnder hym many kynges many dyuerse people / and his londe is good and ryche but not so ryche as the londe of the grete Chane / for marchauntes come not so moche thyder as they do in to the londe of the grete Chane for it is to longe a waye And also they fynde in the yle of Cathay all that they haue nede of / as spycery clothes of golde and other rychesse And all yf they myght haue better chepe in the londe of preester Iohan than in the londe of Cathay and more fyner / neuertheles they wolde lette it for the longe waye grete pevyls in the see / for there are many places in the see where are grete Roches of a stone that is called adamande / the whiche of his owne kynde draweth to hym yron / and for as moche that there sholde passe no shyp that had nayles of yron for it sholde drawe it to hym / therfore they dare not wende in to that countree with shyppes for drede of adamandes I wente ones in that see and sawe as longe as it had ben a grete yle of trees and stockes and braunches growynge / and the shypman sayd to me that those was of grete shyppes that were dwellynge there thorugh the vertue of the adamandes and of thynges that were in the shyppes were those trees sprongen and waxen / and suche Roches are there many in dyuerse places of that see and therfore dare no shypman passe that waye And an other also that they drede

grace / and they dyde so And also he badde theym that eche man sholde brynge his eldest sone before hym and slee his owne sone with his owne handes and smyte of theyr heedes and as soone they dyde his byddynge And whan he sawe they made no lettynge of that he badde theym do / than badde he theym folowe his baner / than he put in subgeccyon all the londes about hym ¶ How the grete Chane was hydde vnder a tree so scaped his enmyes by cause of a byrde ca. lxix ANd it befelle on a daye that the Chane rode with a fewe men to se the londe that he hadde wonne he mette with a grete multytude of his enmyes and there he was cast downe of his hors and his hors slayne And whan his men sawe hym at the erthe they wende he had be deed / fled and the enmyes folowed after / and whan he sawe his enmyes were ferre he hydde hym in a busshe for the wood was thycke there / and whan they were come agayn fro the chaffs they wente to seke amonge the wood yf ony were hydde there / they foūde many And as they came to the place where he was they sawe a hyrde sytte vpon a tree the whiche byrde men calle an oule / than sayd they that there was no man for that byrde sate there so wente they awaye / thus was the Chane saued fro deth / so he wente awaye on a nyght to his owne men whiche were gladde of his comynge And fro that tyme hyderwardes men of that coūtree haue do grete worshyp to that byrde for that cause they worshyp that byrde aboue all the byrdes of the worlde And than he assembled all his men rode vpon his enemyes destroyed theym And whan he had wonne all the londes that were about hym he helde them in subgeccyon And whan the Chane had wonne all the londes to mount Belyan / the whyte knyght come to hym in a vysyon agayne sayd vnto hym Chane the wyll of god is that thou passe the moūt Belyan and thou shalt wynne many londes / for thou shalt fynde no passage go thou to moūt Belyan that is vpon the see syde knele ix tymes theron agaynst the eest in the worshyp of god he shall shewe the a waye how thou shalt passe / the Chane dyde so / and anone the see that touched the hylle withdrowe hym and shewed hym a fayre waye of .ix. foot brood bytwene the hylle and the see / and so he passed ryght well with all his men and than he wanne the londe of Cathay that is the moost londe and the grettest of all the worlde / and for those .ix. knelynges the .ix. foot of waye the Chane and the men of Tartary haue the nombre of .ix. in grete worshyp ¶ Of the grete Chanes letters and the wrytynge aboute his seale ca. lxx ANd whan he had wonne the londe of Cathay he deyed than regned after Cytho to the eldest sone of Chane / and his other broders wente to wynne theym londes in other coūtrees / they wanne the londe of Pruysse of Russy / and they dyde calle themself Chane / but he of Cathay is the grete Chane and the grettest lorde of all the worlde / so he called hȳ in his letters sayth thꝰ Chan filiꝰ dei excelsi vniuersā terrā colenciū sūmꝰ impator dn̄s dominātiū That is to say Chane goddes sone Emperour of all those that tylle all the londe lorde of all lordes And the wrytynge aboue his grete seale is Deus in celo et chan suꝑ terrā eiꝰ fortitudo oīm hoīm impatoris sigillū That is to saye God in heuen Chane vpon erthe his strengthe the seale of themperour of all men And the wrytynge about his preuy seale is Dei fortitudo oīm hoīm īꝑatoris sigillū That is to saye The strengthe of god seale of the Emperour of all men And all yf it be so that they be not crysten yet themperour and the Tartaryns byleue in god almyghty ¶ Of the gouernaunce of the courte of the grete Chane ca. lxxi NOw haue I tolde you why he is called the grete Chane Now shall I telle you of the gouernynge of his courte whan they make grete festes / he keped four pryncypall festes in the yere / the fyrst is of his byrth / the seconde whan he is borne to the Temple to be circūcysed / the thyrde is of his ydols whan they begynne to speke / and the fourth whan the ydoll begynneth fyrst to do myracles / at those tymes he hath men well arrayed by thousandes and by hondredes / echone wote well what he shall do For there is fyrst ordeyned foure thousande ryche barons myghty for to ordeyne the feest to serue themperour / all thyse barons haue crownes of golde well dyght with precyous stones perles / and they are cladde in clothes of golde and camathas as rychely as they may be made / they may well haue suche clothes for they are there of lesse pryce than wollen cloth is here And thyse four thousande barons are departed in four partyes / eche company is clad in dyuerse colour ryght rychely / whan the fyrst thousande is passed hath shewed theym / than come the seconde thousande / than the thyrde thousande / and than the fourth none of theym speketh a worde And on one syde of themperours table sytteth many phylosophres of many scyences / some of astronomy / nygromancy / geometry / pyromacy / other many scyences / some haue before theym astrolabes of golde or of precyous stones full of sonde or of coles brennynge / some haue orloges well dyght rychely other many Instrumentes after theyr scyences / at a certayne houre whan they se tyme they saye to men that stande before theym make peas / and than saye those men with a loude voyce to all the halle now be stylle a whyle / than sayth one of the phylosophres eche man make reuerence enclyne to themperour that is goddes sone lorde of the worlde for now is tyme houre / than all men enclyne to hym knele on the erthe / and than byddeth the phylosophre theym ryse vp agayne / at an other houre an other phylosophre byddeth theȳ all put theyr fynger in theyr eerys they do so / and at an other houre an other phylosophre byddeth that all men shall laye theyr honde on theyr heed they do so / than he byddeth theym take awaye they do so / and thus fro houre to houre they bydde dyuerse thynges / I asked pryuely what this sholde mene and one of the maysters sayd that the enclynynge the knelynge on the erthe at that tyme hath this token / that all those men that kneled so shall euermore be true to themperour / that for no gyfte

vs wolde go in they wolde also / as they had sayd so vpon truste of theym we sayd that we wolde go and we dyde synge a masse we were shryuen houseled and we wente in .xiiij. and whan he came out we were but .x. and we wyste not wheder our felowes were lost there or that they torned agayne but we sawe nomore of theym / other of our felowes that wolde not go in with vs wente about by an other waye for to be before vs so they were / we wente thrugh the valey sawe there many meruayllous thynges / golde syluer precyous stones Iewelys grete plente on many sydes as vs thought / wheder it was as it semed I wote not for I touched theym not / for the deuylles are so subtyll queynt that make many tymes a thynge to seme that it is not for to deceyue men / therfore I wolde touche no thynge for drede of enemyes that I sawe in many lykenesses what of deed bodyes that I sawe lye in the valey / but I dare not saye that they were not all bodyes but they semed bodyes thrugh makynge of deuylles / we were often casted downe to the erthe thrugh wynde thonder tempestes / but god helped as alway so passed we thrugh the valey without peryll harme thanked be god almyghty that kepte vs well ¶ Of an ylonde where in dwelled people as grete as geauntes of .xxviij. or .xxx. foot of length and other thynges ca lxxxxij ANd beyonde that valey is a grete yle where people are as grete as geaūtes of .xxviij. foot or .xxx. foot longe / they haue no clothynge but bestes skynnes that hange on them / they ete no brede but flesshe rawe drynke mylke / they haue no houses they ete gladlyer flesshe of men than of other / men sayd vs that beyonde that yle is one yle where are gretter geaūtes as of .xlv. or .l. foot longe / some saye of .l. cubytes longe but I sawe not theym / amonge those geaūtes are grete sheep as it were yonge oxen and they bere grete wolle / thyse sheep haue I seen many tymes An other yle is there northwarde where are many yil felle women they haue precyous stones in theyr eyen / they haue suche kynde that yf they beholde ony man with wrath they slee theym of the beholdynge as the baselyske doth An other yle is there of fayre folke good where the custome is suche that the fyrst nyght that they are wedded they take a certayne man that is ordeyned therfore do hym lye by theyr wyues to haue theyr maydenhede they gyue hym grete rewarde for his trauayle / those men are called Gadlybyryem / for men of the coūtr● holde it a grete thynge to make a woman no mayden / yf it be so that the husbonde fynde her a mayden the next nyght after / for perauenture he that laye by her was dronken or for ony other cause the husbonde shall playne of hym to the lawe that he hath not done his deuoure / he shall greuously be punysshed chastysed / but after the fyrst nyght they kepe theyr wyues well that they speke not with those men / I asked what was the cause why they had that custome / they sayd somtyme men laye with theyr wyues fyrst none other theyr wyues had serpentes in theyr bodyes stonged theyr husbonde on theyr yerde theyr bodyes so was many man slayne / therfore had they that custome to lete other men haue theyr maydenhede for drede of the deth thus they suffre theym to assaye the passage or they put theym vnto auenture ¶ Of women whiche make grete sorowe as theyr childern are borne and grete Ioye whan they are deed ca. lxxxxiii ANd other yle there is where women make grete sorowe whan theyr children are born whan they are deed they make grete Ioye cast theym in a grete fyre brenne theym / they that loue well theyr husbondes whan they are deed they cast theym in a fyre to brenne also / for they saye that fyre shall make theym clene of all fylth vyces they shall be clene in an other wo●lde / the cause why they wepe whan theyr children are born that they make Ioye at theyr deth / they saye a childe whan he is borne cometh in to this worlde to haue trauayle sorowe heuynee whan they are deed they go to paradyse where ryuers are of mylke hony and there is lyf Ioye plente of goodes without trauayle and sorowe In this yle they make theyr kynges by chesynge / and they chese hym not for his rychesse ne his nobley but hym that is of good condycyons moost ryghtwys true that Iuged euery man truly lytell moche after theyr trespas / the kynge may Iuge no man to deth without coūseyll of his barons that all they assent And yf so b● that the kynge do a grete trespas as slee a man o● suche other he shall deye also / but he shall not be slayne / but they shall defende forbede that no man be so hardy to make hym company ne to speke with hym ne gyue hym mete ne drynke thus he shall deye / they spare no man that hath done trespas for loue ne for lordeshyp ne rychesse nor nobley but they do hym ryght after that he hath deserued ¶ Of an ylonde where a men wedde theyr own● doughters kynneswomen ca. lxxxxiiij THere is an other yle where is grete plente of people / they ete neuer flesshe of hares ne of hennes ne of goos yet is there many of theȳ but they ete gladly flesse of all other beestes they drynke mylke In this countree they wedde theyr owne doughters other of theyr kynne as theym lyketh / yf there be .x. or .xij. men in one hous echo ne of theyr wyues shall be comen to other / and at nyght shall one haue one of the wyues an other nyght an other / yf she haue ony childe she may gyue to whiche of theym she wyll so that noman wote yf it be his or not In this londe many other places of Ynde are many cocodrylles that is a maner of a longe serpent on nyghtes they dwell on water on dayes they dwel on londe and roches they ete not in wynter Thyse serpentes slee men ete theym wypēde they haue no tonge In this coūtree many other men cast sede of cotton sowe it eche yere it groweth as it were smalle trees and they berecotton In Araby is many byrdes / that some men call Gyrsantes that is a full fayre beest and is hygher than a grete courser or a stede but his necke is nere .xx cubytes longe / his croupe and his tayle is lyke an herte / and