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  • And aboven, in the dust and in the powder of the hilles, thei wroot lettres and figures with hire fingres: and at the zeres end thei comen azen, and founden the same lettres and figures, the whiche thei hadde writen the zeer before, withouten ony defaute.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And with in the chirche of Seynt Sophie, an emperour somtyme wolde have biryed the body of his fadre, whan he was ded; and as thei maden the grave, thei founden a body in the erthe, and upon the body lay a fyn plate of gold; and there on was writen, in Ebreu, Grece and Latyn, lettres that seyden thus,

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • But I seye, that he had gon so longe, be londe and be see, that he had envyround alle the erthe, that he was comen azen envirounynge, that is to seye, goynge aboute, unto his owne marches, zif he wolde have passed forthe, til he had founden his contree and his owne knouleche.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And who so that may be founden with that synne, sykerly thei slen hym.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And men gon up to that Golgotha be degrees: and in the place of that morteys was Adames hed founden, aftre Noes flode; in tokene that the synnes of Adam scholde ben boughte in that same place.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • I have founden, that in Lybye, men seen first the sterre Antartyk.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • After goynge be see and be londe, toward this contree, of that I have spoke, and to other yles and londes bezonde that contree, I have founden the sterre Antartyk of 33 degrees of heghte, and mo mynutes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Josephe of Aramathie had put oure Lord thereinne: the whiche ston the 3 Maries sawen turnen upward, whan thei comen to the sepulcre, the day of his resurrexioun; and there founden an aungelle, that tolde hem of oure Lordes uprysynge from dethe to lyve.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And that was the verray croys assayed: for thei founden 3 crosses; on of oure Lord, and 2 of the

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whan thei weren comen azen fro the chace, thei wenten and soughten the wodes, zif ony of hem had ben hid in the thikke of the wodes: and manye thei founden and slowen hem anon.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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