The Second River Is Clept Nilus Or Gison; For It Is Always Trouble;
And Gison, In The Language Of Ethiopia, Is To Say, Trouble, And In
The Language Of Egypt Also.
The third river, that is dept Tigris, is as much for to say as,
fast-running; for he runneth more fast than any of the tother; and
also there is a beast, that is clept tigris, that is fast-running.
The fourth river is clept Euphrates, that is to say, well-bearing;
for there grow many goods upon that river, as corns, fruits and
other goods enough plenty.
And ye shall understand that no man that is mortal ne may not
approach to that Paradise. For by land no man may go for wild
beasts that be in the deserts, and for the high mountains and great
huge rocks that no man may pass by, for the dark places that be
there, and that many. And by the rivers may no man go. For the
water runneth so rudely and so sharply, because that it cometh down
so outrageously from the high places above, that it runneth in so
great waves, that no ship may not row ne sail against it. And the
water roareth so, and maketh so huge noise and so great tempest,
that no man may hear other in the ship, though he cried with all
the craft that he could in the highest voice that he might. Many
great lords have assayed with great will, many times, for to pass
by those rivers towards Paradise, with full great companies.
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