And
There Is Great Plenty Of Adders Of Whom Men Make Great Feasts And
Eat Them At Great Solemnities; And He That Maketh There A Feast Be
It Never So Costly, An He Have No Adders He Hath No Thank For His
Travail.
Many good cities there be in that country and men have great plenty
and great cheap of all wines and victuals.
In that country be many
churches of religious men, and of their law. And in those churches
be idols as great as giants; and to these idols they give to eat at
great festival days in this manner. They bring before them meat
all sodden, as hot as they come from the fire, and they let the
smoke go up towards the idols; and then they say that the idols
have eaten; and then the religious men eat the meat afterwards.
In that country be white hens without feathers, but they bear white
wool as sheep do here. In that country women that be unmarried,
they have tokens on their heads like coronals to be known for
unmarried. Also in that country there be beasts taught of men to
go into waters, into rivers and into deep stanks for to take fish;
the which beast is but little, and men clepe them loirs. And when
men cast them into the water, anon they bring up great fishes, as
many as men will. And if men will have more, they cast them in
again, and they bring up as many as men list to have.
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