And
So Long He Went By Sea And Land, And So Environed The World By Many
Seasons, That He Found
An isle where he heard speak his own
language, calling on oxen in the plough, such words as men speak
To
beasts in his own country whereof he had great marvel, for he knew
not how it might be. But I say, that he had gone so long by land
and by sea, that he had environed all the earth; that he was come
again environing, that is to say, going about, unto his own
marches, and if he would have passed further, till he had found his
country and his own knowledge. But he turned again from thence,
from whence he was come from. And so he lost much painful labour,
as himself said a great while after that he was come home. For it
befell after, that he went into Norway. And there tempest of the
sea took him, and he arrived in an isle. And, when he was in that
isle, he knew well that it was the isle, where he had heard speak
his own language before and the calling of oxen at the plough; and
that was possible thing.
But how it seemeth to simple men unlearned, that men ne may not go
under the earth, and also that men should fall toward the heaven
from under. But that may not be, upon less than we may fall toward
heaven from the earth where we be.
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