And Then They Send Forth Those Mares For
To Pasture About Those Hills, And With-Hold The Foals With Them At
Home.
And when the pismires see those vessels, they leap in anon:
and they have this kind that they let nothing be empty among them,
but anon they fill it, be it what manner of thing that it be; and
so they fill those vessels with gold.
And when that the folk
suppose that the vessels be full, they put forth anon the young
foals, and make them to neigh after their dams. And then anon the
mares return towards their foals with their charges of gold. And
then men discharges them, and get gold enough by this subtlety.
For the pismires will suffer beasts to go and pasture amongst them,
but no man in no wise.
And beyond the land and the isles and the deserts of Prester John's
lordship, in going straight toward the east, men find nothing but
mountains and rocks, full great. And there is the dark region,
where no man may see, neither by day ne by night, as they of the
country say. And that desert and that place of darkness dure from
this coast unto Paradise terrestrial, where that Adam, our formest
father, and Eve were put, that dwelled there but little while: and
that is towards the east at the beginning of the earth. But that
is not that east that we clepe our east, on this half, where the
sun riseth to us.
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