But They Of The Country Say That It Is For To Do
Reverence To Their King, That Is The Most
Worthy king that is in
the world as they say; because that he fulfilleth the commandment
that God bade to
Adam and Eve, when God said, CRESCITE ET
MULTIPLICAMINI ET REPLETE TERRAM. And for because that he
multiplieth so the world with children, therefore God sendeth him
so the fishes of diverse kinds of all that be in the sea, to take
at his will for him and all his people. And therefore all the
fishes of the sea come to make him homage as the most noble and
excellent king of the world, and that is best beloved with God, as
they say. I know not the reason, why it is, but God knoweth; but
this, me-seemeth, is the most marvel I saw. For this marvel is
against kind and not with kind, that the fishes that have freedom
to environ all the coasts of the sea at their own list, come of
their own will to proffer them to the death, without constraining
of man. And therefore, I am siker that this may not be, without a
great token.
There be also in that country a kind of snails that be so great,
that many persons may lodge them in their shells, as men would do
in a little house. And other snails there be that be full great
but not so huge as the other. And of these snails, and of great
white worms that have black heads that be as great as a man's
thigh, and some less as great worms that men find there in woods,
men make viand royal for the king and for other great lords.
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