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The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile, Kt
The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Maundevile Kt Author:John Mandeville Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: . in. Of the Cytec of Costantynoble, and of the Feithe of Grekis. Ax Costantynoble lyethe Seynte Anne oure Ladyes Modre, whom Seynte Elyne dede brynge f... more »ro Jerusalem. And there lyethe also the Body of John Crisostome, that was Erchebisschopp of Costantynoble. And there lythe also Seynt Luke the Evaungelist : For his Bones werein broughte from Bethanye, where he was beryed. And many othere Relikes ben there. And there is the Ves- selle of Ston, as it were of Marbelle, that Men clepen Enydros, that evermore droppeth Watre, and fillethe himself everiche zeer, til that it go over above, withouten that that Men take fro withinne. Costantynoble is a fulle fayr Cytee, and a gode and a wel walled, and it is three cornered. And there is an Arm of the See Hellespont : and sum Men callen it the Mouthe of Costantynoble ; and sum Men callen it the Brace of Seynt George : and that Arm closethe the two partes of the Cytee. And upward to the See, upon the Watre, was wont to be the grete Cytee of Troye, in a fulle fayr Playn : But that Cytee was destroyed by hem of Grece, and lytylle apperethe there of, be cause it so longe sithe it was destroyed. Abouten Grece there ben many Hes, as Calistre," Calcas,b Critige,0 Tesbria,d Mynea,eFlaxon,f Melo, Carpate, and Lempne. And in this He is the Mount Athos, that passeth the Cloudes. And there ben many dyvers Langages and many Con- treys, that ben obedyent to the Emperour; that is to seyn Turcople, Pyneynard, Cornange, and manye othere, as Trachye, and Macedoigne, of the whiche Alisandre was Kyng. In this Contree was Aristotle born, in a Cytee that Man clepen Stra- gers, a lytil fro the Cytee of Trachaye. And at Stragers lythe Aristotle; and there is an Awtier upon his Toumbe: And there maken Men grete Festes of hym every zeer, as thoughe he ...« less