And Therefore May No Man In That Country Say, This
Is My Wife; Ne No Woman May Say, This My Husband.
And when they
have children, they may give them to what man they will that hath
companied with them.
And also all the land is common; for all that
a man holdeth one year, another man hath it another year; and every
man taketh what part that him liketh. And also all the goods of
the land be common, corns and all other things: for nothing there
is kept in close, ne nothing there is under lock, and every man
there taketh what he will without any contradiction, and as rich is
one man there as is another.
But in that country there is a cursed custom, for they eat more
gladly man's flesh than any other flesh; and yet is that country
abundant of flesh, of fish, of corns, of gold and silver, and of
all other goods. Thither go merchants and bring with them children
to sell to them of the country, and they buy them. And if they be
fat they eat them anon. And if they be lean they feed them till
they be fat, and then they eat them. And they say, that it is the
best flesh and the sweetest of all the world.
In that land, ne in many other beyond that, no man may see the Star
Transmontane, that is clept the Star of the Sea, that is unmovable
and that is toward the north, that we clepe the Lode-star.
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