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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

And he hath also a fayre palays at the cyte of Nyse where he dwelleth whan he wyll but the ayer there is not soo well tempred as it is at the cyte of Suse And he hath euery daye in his courte more that .xxx. thousande men without comers goers / but .xxx. thousande there in the coūtree of the grete Chane spende not so moche as .xij. thousande in our countree / he hath euermore .vij. kynges in his court to serue hym / echone of theym serueth a moneth and with thyse kynges serue alwaye .lxxij. dukes CCC Erles / and euery daye ete in his courte .xij. archebysshops and .xx. bysshops The patryarke of saynt Thomas is as he were a pope / archebysshops bysshops abbottes all are kynges in that countree / some of the lordes is mayster of the halle some of the chambre / some stuarde / some marshall some other offycers therfore he is full rychely serued his londe lasteth in brede foure monethes Iourney / and it is of length without mesure ¶ Of a ryche man in prester Iohns londe named Catolonabes of his gardeyne ca. lxxxx IN an yle of prester Iohans londe that men calle Myscorach therin is grete plente of goodes moche ryches and many precyous stones In that londe was a ryche man not longe agone that men called there Catolonabes / he was full ryche he had a fayre castell on an hylle stronge / and he hadde made a walle all about the hylle ryght stronge fayre within that he had a fayre gardeyne wherin were many trees berynge all mane● of fruytes that he myght fynde / he dyde plante therin all maner of herbes of good smell that bare floures / there was many fayre welles and by theym was made many fayre halles chambres well dyght with golde asure / and he had made there dyuerse storyes beestes and byrdes that songe torned by engyne and orbage as they had be all quycke / he had in his gardayne that he myght fynde to make a man solace comfort / and he had also there in that gardeyne maydens within the age of .xv. yere the fayrest that he myght fynde men children of the same age / they were cladde with clothes of golde he sayd that the same were angels / he had do make thre hylles fayre and good all enclosed aboute with precyous stones of Iaspye and crystall well boūde with golde and perles other maner of stones / and he had made a conduyte vnder the erthe so that whan he wolde the walles ranne somtyme with mylke somtyme with wyne somtyme with hony / this place is called Paradyse And whan ony yonge bachelere of that countree knyght or squyer cometh to hym for solace dysporte / he ledeth hym in to his Paradyse sheweth vnto hym all thyse dyuerse thynges / dyuerse songes of byrdes and also of his damoysels and his welles / and he dyde stryke dyuerse Instrumentes of musyke in an hyghe toure that myght be seen sayd those were aungels of god / and that place was Paradyse that god hath graūted to those that byleued whan he sayd Dabo vobis terrā fluentē lac et mel That is to saye I shall gyue you londe flowynge mylke hony And than this ryche man dyde thyse men drynke a maner of drynke of whiche they were dronken he sayd to them yf they wolde deye for his sake that whan they were deed they sholde come in to his Paradyse / and they sholde be of the age of those maydens sholde dwelle alwaye with theym / and he sholde put theym in a fayre Paradyse where they sholde se god in his Ioye in his mageste / and than they graunted to do what he wolde / and he hadde them go slee suche a lorde or a man of the coūtre that he was wroth with / that they sholde haue no drede of no man / and yf they were slayne themselfe for his sake he sholde put theym in his Paradyse whan they were deed And so wente those bachelers to slee grete lordes of the countree / and were slayne themselfe in hope to haue that Paradyse / thus he was auenged of his enemyes thorugh his deserte And whan ryche men of the countree perceyued this malyce and cautele the wyll of this Catolonabes they gadred theym togyder assayled the castell and slewe hym and destroyed all his goodes and his fayre places rychesse that were in his Paradyse / the place of the walles is there yet and some other thȳges / but the rychesse is not there and it is not longe ago syth he was destroyed ¶ Of a meruaylous vale that is besyde the ryuer of Physon ca. lxxxxi ANd a lytell fro that place on the lyfte fyde besyde the Ryuer of Physon is a grete meruayle There is a vale bytwene two hylles that is foure myle longe / and some men calle it the valay enchaunted / some the valey of deuylles / some the valey peryllous / in that valey are many tempestes and a grete noyse and hydeous euery daye and nyght / and somtyme as it were a noyse of Taburynes of nakers and of trompettes as it were at a grete feest This valey is all full of deuylles hath ben alwaye / men saye there that it is an entre to helle In this valey is moche golde and syluer / wherfore many crysten men other go thy der for couetyse of that golde syluer / but fewe of theym come out agayne for they are anone strangled with deuylles / in myddes of that vale vpon a roche is a vysage the heed of a fende bodyly ryght hydeous dredefull to se / there is no thynge seen but the heed to the sholders / but there is no crysten man in the worlde ne other soo hardy that he ne sholde haue grete drede for to beholde it / for he beholdeth eche man so sharpely so felly / his eyen are so sterynge so sprenkelynge as fyre and he chaungeth so often his coūtenaūce that no man dare come nere for all the worlde / and out of his mouth his nose cometh grete plente of fyre of dyuerse colours / somtyme is the fyre so stynkynge that no man may suffre it / but alwaye a good crysten man that is stable in the fayth may go there in without harme yf they shryue theym well and blysse theym with the token of the crosse than shall the deuylles haue no power of theym And ye shall vnderstande the whan my felowes I were in that valey we had full grete thought yf we sholde put our bodyes in auenture to go thrugh it / some of my felowes accorded therto / some wolde not accorde therto / there was in our company two freres mynours of Lombardy they sayd yf ony of

nehetynge they shall neuer be traytours ne fals to hȳ And the puttynge of the fynger in the eere hath this token / that none of those shall here none ylle be spoken of the Emperour or his coūseyll And ye shall vnderstande that men dyght no thynge / clothes / brede / drynke / nor none suche thynges to themperour but at certayne houres that the phylosophres telle yf ony man reyse warre ayenst that Emperour in what countree so it be thyse phylophres wote it soone tell the Emperour or his counseyll / and he sendeth men thyder for he hath many men And he hath many men to kepe byrdes as garfaukons sperhaukes / faucons / gentyls / laners / sacres / popyniayes that are spekynge many other .x. thousande olyfaūtes / baboynes / marmosettes other / he hath euer about hym many physycyens more than two hondred that are crysten men and .xx. sarasyns / but trusteth more in crysten men than in sarasyns And there is in that coūtree many barons other seruaūtes that are ceysten conuerted to the good fayth thorugh prechynge of good crysten men that dwelle there / but there are many that wyll not that men wete that they are crysten ¶ Of the grete rychesse of this Emperour and of his dyspendynge ca. lxxij THis Emperour is a grete lorde for he may dyspende what he wyll without nombre / bycause he spended nother syluer nother golde / he made no money but of leder or skynnes / and this same money gooth thorugh all his londe / and of the syluer and golde buylded he his palays And he hath in his chambre a pyler of golde in the whiche is a Ruby and a carbuncle of a foot longe the whiche lyghteth all his chambre by nyght / and he hath many other prycyous stones rubyes but this is the moost This Emperour dwelleth in the somer towardes the North in a cyte that men calle Saydus and there it is colde ynough / and in the wynter he dwelleth in a cyte that men calle Camalache and there it is ryght hote / but for the moost parte is he to Cadon that is not ferre thens ¶ Of the ordynaūce of the lordes of themperour whan he rydeth from one coūtree to an other or to warre ca. lxxiij ANd whan this grete Chane shall ryde frō one coūtree to an other they ordeyne four hoostes of people / of whiche the fyrste gooth before a dayes Iourney / for the hoost lyeth at euen where the Emperour shall lye on the morowe / there is plente of vytayls And an other hoost cometh at the ryght syde of hym and an other at the lyfte syde / in eche hoost is moche folke And than cometh the fourth hoost behynde hȳ a bowe drawght / there is more men in than in ony of the other And ye shal vnderstande that the Emperour rydeth on no hors but whan he wyll go to ony secrete place with a pryue meyne where he wyll not be knowen / but he rydeth in a charyotte with four wheles / there vpon is a chambre made of a tree that men calle lignū aloes that cometh out of Paradyse terrestre that chambre is couered with plates of fyne golde and precyous stones perles / and four olyfaūtes foure oxen all whyte gone there in And fyue or sixe grete lordes ryden about hym so that none other men shall come nere hym but yf the Emperour calle ony And in that same maner with charyotte suche hoostes rydeth the Empresse by an other syde / the Emperours eldest sone on the same aray / and they haue so moche people that it is a grete meruayll for to se ¶ How the Empyre of the grete Chane is departed in to .xij. prouynces / and how that they do cast ensence in the fyre where the grete Chane passeth thorugh the cytees and townes in worshyp of the Emperour ca. lxxiiij THe londe of the grete Chane is departed in xij prouynces / eche prouynce hath more than two thousande cytees townes Also whan themperour rydeth thrugh the coūtree / he passeth thrugh cytees townes / eche man maketh a fyre before his hous casteth therin ensence and other thynges that gyue good smell to themperour And yf ony men of relygyon that are crysten dwelle nere as themperour cometh they mete hym with processyon with a crosse holy water / they synge Veni creator spiritus with a loude voyce And whan he see theym come he cōmaundeth the lordes that ryde nere hym to make waye that the relygyous men may come to hym / whan he se that crosse he doth of his hatte that is made of precyous stones grete perles / that hatte is so ryche that it is meruayle to telle and than he enclyned to the crosse And the prelate of the relygyous men sayth orysons before hym gyueth hym the benyson with the crosse / he enclyneth to the benyson full deuoutly / than the same prelate gyueth hym some fruyte of the nombre of ix in a plate of golde as peres or apples or other fruyte / than the Emperour taketh one therof the other he gyueth to his lordes / for the maner is suche there that no straūge man shall come before themperour but he gyue hym som what after the olde lawe that sayth Non accedat in ꝯspectu meo inanis That is too saye No man come in to my syght ydle And than the Emperour byddeth thyse relygyous men that they shall go forth so that men of his hoost defoule theȳ not And those relygyous men that dwelle where the Empresse or the Emperours sone cometh do in the same maner ¶ How that the grete Chane is the myghtyest lorde of all the worlde ca. lxxv THis grete Chane is the myghtyest lorde of the worlde / for prester Iohan is not so grete a lorde as he / ne the Soudan of Babylon ne the Emperour of Persy In his londe a man hath an hondred wyues / some .xl. some more some lesse / they take of theyr kynne to wyues all saue theyr systers of theyr moders / but theyr systers of theyr faders other wyues they take also / they take also well theyr stepmoder yf theyr fader be deed / and men women haue all one maner of clothynge so that they may not be knowen but the women that are wedded bere a token on theyr heedes / and they dwelle not with theyr husbondes / but he may lye by whiche that he wyl They haue plente of al maner of bestes saue swyne forsothe they wyll none they beleue well in god that made all thynge yet haue they ydolles of golde syluer / to those ydols they offre theyr fyrst mylke of theyr bestes Yet of other maners of this countree ca. lxxvi THis Emperour the grete Chane hath thre wyues / the pryncypall wyfe was preester Iohans doughter And the

people of this countree begynne too do all theyr thynges in the newe mone / and they worshyp moche the sonne the mone those men ryde comunely without spores / and they holde it grete synne too breke a bone with an other to cast mylke on the erthe or other lycoure the men may drynke And the moost synne that they may doo is to pysse in theyr houses there they dwell / and he that pysseth in his house shall be slayne / and of those synnes they shryue them to theyr prestes / and for theyr penaunce they shal gyue syluer / the place where they haue pyssed shall be halowed / or els may no man come there And whan they haue do theyr penaunce they shall passe thrugh a fayr fyre or two too make theym clene of theyr synnes And they haue eten they wype theyr handes vpon theyr skyrtes for they haue noo table clothes but it be ryghte grete lordes / whan they haue all eten they put theyr dysshes or doublers not wasshen in the pot or caudron with flesshe that is lefte whan they haue eten vnto they wyll ete an other tyme / and ryche men drȳke mylke of mares or asses or other bestes other beuerage that is made of mylke water togyder for they haue neyther wyne ne ale And whā they goo to warre the warre full wysely / and eche man of them bereth two or thre bowes many arowes a grete hachet / gentylmen haue shorte swerdes / he that fleeth in batayll they slee hym / they are euer in purpose to brynge all londes in subgeccyon to theym / for they say prophecyes saye that they shall be ouercome by shot of archers that they shall torne theym to theyr lawe / but they wote not what men they shall be / it is grete peryll to pursue the Tartaryns whan they flee / for they wyll shote behynde flee men as well as before / they haue small cyen as lytell byrdes / they are comunely false for they holde not that they promyse And whan a man shall deye amonge theym they steke a spere in the erthe besyde hym / whan in draweth to the deth they go out of the hous tyll he be dede and than they put hym in the erthe in the felde ¶ How the Emperour is brought vnto his graue whan he is dede ca. lxxvij AN whan the Emperour is deed they sette hym in a chayre in the myddes of his tente / and they set before hym a table couered with a clothe and therupon flesse and other mete and a cuppe full of mylke of a mare / and they set a mare with a colte by hym and an horse sadled and brydeled / and the lay vpon the horse golde syluer / and all about hym they make a grete graue / and with all thyse thynges they put hym therin as the tent hors golde syluer all that is a bout hym / ad they say whan he cometh in to an other worlde he shall not be without an house ne horse ne syluer ne golde / the mare shal gyue hym mylke brynge forth more horses tyll he be well stored in the other worlde and one of his chamberlaynes or seruaūtes is put with hym in the erthe for to do hym seruyce in the other worlde / for they byleue that whan he is dede he shall goo in to an other worlde be a greter lorde there than here And whan that he is layde in the erthe noman shall be so hardy for to speke of hym before his frendes ¶ Whan the Emperour is dede how they chese make an other ca. lxxviij ANd than whan the Emperour is deed the seuen lynages gader them togyder they touche his sone or the next of his blode they saye thus / we wyll and we ordeyne and we praye that thou be our lorde our Emperour And he enquyreth of them sayth yf ye wyll that I regne vpon you so must ye do all that I bydde you to doo And yf he bydde that ony he slayne he shall be slayne / And they answere all with one voyce / all that ye bydde shall be done Than sayth the Emperour fro nowe forth my wordes shall cutte as my swerde / than they sette hym in a chayr crowne hym / and than all the good townes theraboute sende to him presentes so moche that he shal haue more than C Camels laden with olde syluer besyde other Iew●lles that he shall haue of lordes of precyous stones golde wtout nombre / hors ryche clothes of camacas tartaryns and suche other ¶ What coūtrees kyngdoms lye next to the londe of Cathay the frontes therof ca. lxxix THis londe of Cathay is in Asye the depe / this same londe marcheth towarde the west vpon the kyngedom of Sercy the whiche was somtyme to one of the thre kynges that wente to seke our lorde in Bethleem / and all those that come of his kynne are crysten Thyse men of Tartary drynke no wyne In the londe of Corosaym that is at the north syde of Cathay is ryght grete plente of good but no wyne / the whiche hath at the eest syde a grete wyldernesse that lasteth more than an hondred Iourneys / and the best cyte of that londe is called Corosaym therafter is the londe soo called / and men of this londe are good warryoures hardy / therby is the kyngdom of Comayn / this is the moost the gretest kyngedom of the worlde / but it is not all Inhabyte / for in one place of that londe is soo grete colde that noo man may dwell there for colde / in an other place is grete hete that no man may dwelle there / there are soo many feyghes that a man wote not on what syde he may torne hym / in this londe are but fewe trees berynge fruyte In this londe men lye in tentes they brenne dounge of bestes for defaute of wood This londe dyscendeth towarde Pruyse Rossy / and thorugh this lōde renneth the ryuer Echell that is one of the greteste ryuers in the worlde / it is frosen soo harde euery yere that men fyght thervpon in grete batayles on horse / and fote men more than hondred thousandes at ones And a lytell fro that ryuer is the grete see of Occean that they call Maure / and bytwene this Maure Caspye is a full strayte passage too go towarde Ynde therfore kynge Alexander dyde make there a cyte that men calle Alexander for to kepe that passage / soo that noo man may passe but yf he haue leue / and nowe is that cyte called Porte de fear / and the pryncypall cyte of Comayn is called sarachys / this is one of the thre wayes to go in to Ynde / but thrugh this waye may not many men goo but yf it be in wynter and this passage is called