Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	abbey_n	dwell_v	monk_n	32	3	10.6660	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51759	The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, and divers other countries : together with many strange marvels therein.	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399.	1677 (1677)	Wing M415; ESTC R21151	84,811	129

he that can slay most is of most Fame among them And if there be two men at strife and after be made friends then must they drink either others blood or else the accord is of no value From this Isle men go to another Isle that is call'd Tarkonet where all men are as Beasts for they are unreasonable and they dwell in Caves for they have not wit to make Houses these men eat Adders and speak not but make such noise as Beasts do one to another and they make no force of riches but of a Stone that is of forty colours and is called Trakonet and in that Isle they know not the vertue thereof but they covet it for the fairness CHAP. LXI Of the Isle named Macumeran Where the People have heads like Hounds FRom this Isle men go to another that is called Macumeran which is a great Isle and a fair and the men and women of that Country have Heads like Hounds they are reasonable and worship an Ox for their God they go all naked but a little cloth before their Privy Members they are good men to fight and they bear a great Target with which they cover all their body and a Spear in their hand And if they take any man in battel they send him to their King which is a great Lord and devout in his Faith for he hath about his neck on a Chain three hundred great Pearls and as the Papists say their Pater noster and other prayers so their King saith every day three hundred prayers to his God before he either eat or drink and he beareth also about his neck a Ruby Orient fine and good that is near a foot and five fingers long For when they chuse their King they give to him that Ruby to bear in his hand and then they lead him riding about the city and then ever after they are subject to him and therefore he beareth that Ruby alway about his neck for if he bear not the Ruby they would no longer hold him for their King The great Caane of Cathay hath much coveted this Ruby but he might never have it neither by war nor by other means And this King is a full true and vertuous man for men may go safely and surely through his land and bear all that they will for there is no man so hardy to let them And from thence men go to an Isle that is called Silo this Isle is more than an hundred mile about and therein be many Serpents which are great with yellow strikes and they have four feet with short legs and great claws some be five fadome of length and some of eight and some of ten and some more some less and they be called Crocodiles and there be also many wild Beasts and Elephants Also in this Isle and in many Isles thereabout are many wild Geese with two heads and there are also in that country white Lyons and many other strange beasts but if I should tell all it would be too long CHAP. LXII Of a great Island called Dodyn there are many men of evil condition THere is there another Isle called Dodyn and it is a great Isle In the same Isle are many and divers sorts of men who have evil manners for the Father eateth the Son and the Son the Father the Husband his Wife and the Wife her Husband And if it so be that the Father be sick or the Mother or any Friend the Son goes soon to the Priest of the Law and prayeth him that he will ask of the Idol if his Father shall die of that sickness or not And then the Priest and the Son kneel down before the Idol devoutly and ask him and he answereth to them and if he say that he shall live then they keep him well and if he say that he shall die then cometh the Priest with the Son or with the Wife or any that is a friend unto him that is sick and they lay their hands over his mouth to stop his breath and so they slay him and then they smite all the body into pieces and pray all his friends for to come and eat of him that is dead and they make a great Feast thereof and have many Ministrils there and eat him with great melody And so when they have eaten all the flesh then they take the bones and bury them all singing with great mirth and all those of his friends that where not there at the eating of him have great shame and reproof so that they shall nevermore be taken as friends CHAP. LXIII Of the Kingdom of Mancie which is a large Kingdom TO go from this Isle toward the East after many days journy a man shall come to a kingdom called Mancy and this is in great Inde and it is the most delectable and plentiful land in all the world In this land dwell Christians and Sarasins for it is a great land and therein are fair women and therefore some men call that land Albany for the white Folk and there is a city that is called Latorim and it is bigger than Paris and therein are two thousand great Cities and many other Towns In this land no man goeth a begging for there is no poor man and there men have Beards as it were Cats In this Isle are Birds twice greater than they be here and there is all manner of Viduals good cheap In this country are white Hens and they bear no Featters but Wool as sheep do in our land and woman of that country that are Wedded bear Crowns upon their heads that they may be known by it In this country they take a beast that is called a Loyre and they keep it to go into Waters and Rivers and straight way he bringeth forth of the Water great Fishes and thus they take Fish as much as them needeth From this city men go many days journey to another city called Cassay which is one of the fairest in the World for that city is near fifty mile about and there is in that city above xii principal gates without From thence within three miles is another great city and within this city are more than ten thousand Bridges and upon each Bridge is a strong Tower where the keepers dwell to keep it against the great Caane for it boundeth on his land and on each side of the city runneth a great River and there dwell Christians and other for it is a good and plenteous country and there groweth very good Wines In this city the King of Mancie was wont to dwell and there dwell yet Religious men And men go upon the River till they come to an Abbey of Monks a little from the city and in that Abbey is a great Garden and therein is sundry sorts of Trees of divers Fruits In that Garden are divers kinds of Beasts as Baboones Apes Marmozets and other and when the Covent have eaten a Monk taketh the remainder and beareth it into the Garden ringeth once with a