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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09829	The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the east partes of the world, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other kingdoms and prouinces. No lesse pleasant, than profitable, as appeareth by the table, or contents of this booke. Most necessary for all sortes of persons, and especially tor trauellers. Translated into English; Travels of Marco Polo. English	Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 20092; ESTC S105055	116,899	196

that thys Shomaker dyd pull out his eye by this meanes He hadde hearde manye tim●s this saying in the Gospell If thy eye offende thee pull it out and cast it from thee He being a simple man thought that so corporally and m●terially the Scriptures shoulde be vn●erstanded For it chanced on a time there came a M●yde into his Shoppe to bespeake a payre of Shoes and to take the measure of his foote put off hir hose and he withall was tempted to lye with hir remembring himselfe and ●hinking vpon his sinne and yll intent sent hir away without discouering any thing of his yll thoughte and intente and remembring the saying of the holy Gospell being ouercome with zeale and yet not hauing the true knowledge plucked out his eye And so this Shomaker being so desired by the Bishop and other Christians did graunt and promised to praye vnto our Lord God for the sayd cause And the time of the .xv. dayes being come that the Calipho had appoynted he caused to come togither all the Christians whiche came in Procession with their Crosse into a faire playne hard by the hill and Mountayne And to that place came the Calipho with muche people armed with intention that streight way if the Mountayne did not remoue to kill them all Incontinente the Shomaker knéeled downe vppon the earth vpon his bare knées and very deuoutely prayed to oure Lorde lifting vp his hearte and handes to Heauen praying to Iesus Christe to succour and helpe them his Christians that they shoulde not perishe and for that his faith was cléere makyng an end of his Prayer the power of the Almightie God Iesus did cause the Mountayne to remoue and goe from the place it stoode into the place the Calipho and his Councell hadde commaunded And the Moores séeyng thys greate and manyfest miracle stoode wonderfully amazed saying Great is the God of the Christians and the Calipho with a great number of the same Moores became Christned And after this Calipho dyed the Moores that were not Christned would not consente that this Calipho should be buried wheras the other Caliphoes were buried for bycause that after that myracle he lyued and dyed like a true and faythfull Christian. Of Persia and of the Countreys of the Magos and of other good things that be in them CHAP. 13. PErsia is a noble Prouince or Countrey although it was much more in the old time than it is at this present for it was destroyed by the Tartars In Persia is a Citie called Sabba from the which the saying is the thrée Kings departed that went to Iesus Christ that was newly borne in Bethleem In this citie there are Sepulchres very faire and beautifull and I Marcus Paulus was in that Citie and asked of the people of that Countrey what they could say or knewe of the thrée Kings to the which they could say nothing but that they were buried in those thrée Sepulchres But the other people out of the Citie thrée dayes iourney talked of this matter in thys maner following for the which you shal vnderstād that thrée days iourney frō the Citie Sabba is a Towne which is called Calassa Tapeziston which in our language is as much as to say the Towne of them that worship the fire for their god And these people say that whē the thrée Kings departed frō the prouince for to go to the land of the Iewes which was Bethleem to worship the great Prophet there newly borne they carried with thē Golde Incense and Myrre and when they came to Bethleem in Iudea found a child lately borne and did worshippe him for God and presented to him the foresaide thrée things and that the said child did giue thē a little Boxe closed or shut fast commanding thē they should not open it But they after they had trauelled a long iourney it came in their mindes to sée what they carried in the said Boxe and opened it and foūd nothing in it but only a stone and they taking it in ill parte that they sawe nothing else did cast it into a well and by and by descended fire from Heauen and burnt all the Well wyth the stone And the Kings séeing this each of them toke of the same fire and carried it into their Countreys and for thys cause they do worship the fire as god And when it chanceth in any place in that Countrey that they lacke fire they goe to séeke it in another place where they cā get of it and so do light their Lampes And sometimes they goe and séeke it eyght or tenne dayes iourney and not finding of it they goe ofttymes to the Well aforesayd to haue of the same fire Of all this before written you shall take that which doth agrée with the holy Gospell in saying the thrée Kings went to worship our Lord Iesu and did offer those giftes aforesaide All that is declared besides that be erroures and reacheth not to the truth but augmēted with lyes vpon lyes as the vulgar people without knowledge are accustomed to do Of eyght Kingdomes in Persia and the commodities of them CHAP. 14. IN the Prouince of Persia be eyght Kingdomes the first is called Casun the second which is towardes the South is Curdistan the third Lore the fourth Ciestan the fifth Iustanth the sixth Iciagi the seauenth Corchara the eyght Tunchay All these Kingdomes be in Persia in the partes towards the South sauing Tunchay In these Kingdomes be very faire Horses and Moyles coursers of great value and Asses the greatest in the worlde of great price that wil go and runne very swiftely and these the Merchants of India do commonly buy in the Cities of Atris● of Arcones which do ioyne by Sea vpon the India and do sel thē as Merchandise In this Kingdome Tunchay be very cruell mē that wil kill one another If it were not for feare of the Tartar of the East which is their Lord and King neyther Merchant nor other could passe but should be eyther robbed or taken prisoner They be strong people and be of the sect of Mahomet There they do worke and make greate plentie of cloth of gold and silke in great abundance and rich In that Countrey gr●weth greate plentie of Cotten wooll Also there is gr●ate abundance of Wheate Barly Dates and ●ther grayne and Wine and Oyles and frutes Of Iasoy and of many maruellous things there CHAP. 15. IAsoy is a goodly Citie and bigge full of Merchants There they do make great abundance of cloth of gold and silke They be called accordyng to the Citie Iasoy The people of this Countrey be of the sect of Martin Pinol that is Mahomet and do speake another language than the Persians And going forward eyght dayes iourney from this Citie through a playne Countrey but not peopled or anye Towne sauing Mountaynes where is great plentie of Partriches and wild Asses at the ende of this is the Kingdome of the Crerina that is a