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ont of ye hilles and yui speke nott bott ebres
and yan sall yes Jede speke ebres to yam
e lede yam m to cristondome. for to distroy
efton mon: for ye lede says : yit yos att
er m to hilleo sall como onto. and efton
men sall bo m yar subfection as yan hano
bon nocs ond yare. And so will ditto
hod yui sall como onto of yo hilleo. as y
han hordo say I sall tell: In yo tymo
of antofto a fox sall como and mado
his danno. whar lyngo a lopamndo mado
po zatte yar: and ho sall so trackoff
m to erth and sall pislo ut: to ho como
a monge yo lede: and eldon yui so
ye fox yar sall hano guett mar sall of
hyme. for yar sall nad yr slake a lost
for oy bestoo hano yar pighto many:
and yai sall chas po fox: vn to y tymo
to ho ho gano a gayno to yo holl o yt
ho como fra: and yan sall yar grano
eft to yo tymo att yai como to yo
zattes yt a lopamndo ganto mado of

manere, and yo gofpelt says yne: aliau
ones habed que uou suint exhuc vint
yat is to say. I hane oy schep. yat is nott
of yis falde. and pat to a coved a visión
yat saynt pete fad att porte fafe. hove
ye anngel com fra hoden. and brought
est hyme all manner of bestes at neddres
and fonles in all manner. and cpro fayde
to saynt pete take at ett. and ho anngabdo
I ett neddyr of bestes pon elene. and yo
anngelf fayde to hymo ne non dicas
tumuda ifue drus undamt. yat is to
fay. calf yn nott yes ymges yn elene
yat gode has elensyse. yis esas doone
yat men fulde nott hane in dispyte ma,
ny for yan laces. for che chant nedd he
gode lones. nor chane ho hattes. And
yar is a noy ile yat men cates pitune
men of yis ile tilles na lande. for yan
ett nott. and yan er fmale men. as yo
pigmaynes er: yes men lifes clye smelt
of wilde appels. and chum yan ga fare

Pafe Cathay, and if marchandes com
vi der as comonly as yar do to Cathay
itt snlde le bett yan Cathay, for it is
this of tochnke and citee, yat chane
a man gaf, onte of a citee, a non he
fes a noy citee, on ilke a syde yar is
greitt plenty of forces and oy goodes, ye
fonge of yis ile is snlle grett and myght
ty and viche, and he haldes lne lands
of ye grett chane, for yat is an of yo
pye pumces yat ye chans haw undev
hyme of odcynne lne achnne lands, ifva
yis ile men gaf to a noy ilo, y men
culles filoth and yat is also (and yo gitt
chans, and yis is a goode contree and
a plentykose oforne chyme and oy
pmces, men of yis contree hames na
honske bott yan abett m tentye made
of tree, and ye finapalo citee is al,
bak made of blak fraines and chlett
and ye strett er pafede of sluke fraines

And m yat atee is na man so hardo to fulfill
blode of man nov beste, for d schuppyng of
a mawment yat is d schuppedo yau. In yre
atée deuelles pe pape of yar lade, y pau
call bobassly and his gifes all dignitee
and benefices yat falles to mawmet a of
religion, and men yat has infities in yat
contre is obedient to hym, as often me
is obedient to ye pope. In yis ple yai hanz
a customs yoro onte all yo contree, y dely
en a manes fador is dede, yan call do
hymo grett diersthupe, yau sendy efter
all his frendye, jeloushe and oy preestes
a oy many, and yai ber ye body to a hilt
igt grett oy and myrthe, and when itt is
yar yo grettest predato smyttes of his hede
and lygges itt opon a grett plato of golde
or of onner, and his gifes itt to his sone
and yo sone takes itt to his frendye lyng
yng to and playnyng many orysones, and
ye preste a ye religione others ye body.

in peces and statis orisons, and bryddesfo of
ye contree comes yder for pannade ye
onstome and yau ples a boðne yamo as
eslese and oy breddiso yat ettes plesthe
and ye preftis taftes ye peyse to yamo
and yau ber yame alitytt ymo and ettes
yame and as ye preftis synges in om
contree for sanles: *Subnemte sautn*
*di* so ya preftes synges in par langage
and yau say yau be halde hoo good so a
man yis has so yas anngale of god so
como to feche hymo and to lorgym into
padiso and ymko yo somo yat ho is gitt
lye kerstopydo. ch an yo breddis haso
cttyno lyne fader and ch an is mast so
plenty of breddiso yat is lyne mast so ker
stynpe and yau comes yo somo it all
lyne friendis and makes yam gitt festis
and yo somo takes ye fader hed so and
sifoo his fëndyse to dwynke yar of it
ye plesthe of ye hed so his enttes and sifoo