For They Say Not But Only That That
The Apostles Said, As Our Lord Taught Them, Right As Saint Peter
And Saint Thomas And The Other Apostles Sung The Mass, Saying The
PATER NOSTER And The Words Of The Sacrament.
But we have many more
additions that divers popes have made, that they ne know not of.
CHAPTER XXXIII
OF THE HILLS OF GOLD THAT PISMIRES KEEP. AND OF THE FOUR FLOODS
THAT COME FROM PARADISE TERRESTRIAL
TOWARD the east part of Prester John's land is an isle good and
great, that men clepe Taprobane, that is full noble and full
fructuous. And the king thereof is full rich, and is under the
obeissance of Prester John. And always there they make their king
by election. In that isle be two summers and two winters, and men
harvest the corn twice a year. And in all the seasons of the year
be the gardens flourished. There dwell good folk and reasonable,
and many Christian men amongst them, that be so rich that they wit
not what to do with their goods. Of old time, when men passed from
the land of Prester John unto that isle, men made ordinance for to
pass by ship, twenty-three days, or more; but now men pass by ship
in seven days. And men may see the bottom of the sea in many
places, for it is not full deep.
Beside that isle, toward the east, be two other isles. And men
clepe that one Orille, and that other Argyte, of the which all the
land is mine of gold and silver.
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