Alas! That It Is Great Slander To Our Faith And To Our Law, When
Folk That Be Without Law Shall
Reprove us and undernim us of our
sins, and they that should be converted to Christ and to the law
Of
Jesu by our good ensamples and by our acceptable life to God, and
so converted to the law of Jesu Christ, be, through our wickedness
and evil living, far from us and strangers from the holy and very
belief, shall thus appeal us and hold us for wicked livers and
cursed. And truly they say sooth, for the Saracens be good and
faithful; for they keep entirely the commandment of the holy book
ALKARON that God sent them by his messenger Mahomet, to the which,
as they say, Saint Gabriel the angel oftentime told the will of
God.
And ye shall understand, that Mahomet was born in Arabia, that was
first a poor knave that kept camels, that went with merchants for
merchandise. And so befell, that he went with the merchants into
Egypt; and they were then Christian in those parts. And at the
deserts of Arabia, he went into a chapel where a hermit dwelt. And
when he entered into the chapel that was but a little and a low
thing and had but a little door and a low, then the entry began to
wax so great, and so large and so high as though it had been of a
great minster or the gate of a palace.
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