This Palace, Where His Siege Is, Is Both Great And Passing Fair.
And Within The Palace, In The Hall, There Be Twenty-Four Pillars Of
Fine Gold.
And all the walls be covered within of red skins of
beasts that men clepe panthers, that be fair beasts and well
smelling; so that for the sweet odour of those skins no evil air
may enter into the palace.
Those skins be as red as blood, and
they shine so bright against the sun, that unnethe no man may
behold them. And many folk worship those beasts, when they meet
them first at morning, for their great virtue and for the good
smell that they have. And those skins they prize more than though
they were plate of fine gold.
And in the midst of this palace is the mountour for the great Chan,
that is all wrought of gold and of precious stones and great
pearls. And at four corners of the mountour be four serpents of
gold. And all about there is y-made large nets of silk and gold
and great pearls hanging all about the mountour. And under the
mountour be conduits of beverage that they drink in the emperor's
court. And beside the conduits be many vessels of gold, by the
which they that be of household drink at the conduit.
And the hall of the palace is full nobly arrayed, and full
marvellously attired on all parts in all things that men apparel
with any hall.
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