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  • GC: What occupacioun dide ye dreme of whanne ye were a yonge girle?

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  • GC: What occupacioun dide ye dreme of whanne ye were a yonge girle?

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  • And whanne he schalle ben emperour, he schalle ben clept Tossue Chane.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And the contree is sett along upon the ryvere of Nyle; be als moche as that ryvere may serve be flodes or otherwise, that whanne it flowethe, it may spreden abrood thorghe the contree: so is the contree large of lengthe.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whanne that a man ys oute of that ylke hylles, men passen thenne thorewe a cytee, that ys called Maryoche and Arteyse, whare that ys a grete brygge upon a ryvere of Ferne, that men clepen Fassar: and hyt ys a grete ryvere, berynge schyppes.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Atte passynge of this ryvere, seynt Eustache loste hys two sones, whanne that he hadde lost hys wyffe.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whanne my felowes and I seyghe that, whan we comen in, wee diden of oure shoon, and camen in barefote, and thoughten that we scholden don as moche worschipe and reverence there to, as ony of the mysbeleevynge men sholde, and as gret compunction in herte to have.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And whanne the monkes entren in to that place, thei don of bothe hosen and schoon or botes alweys; be cause that oure Lord seyde to Moyses, Do of thin hosen and thi schon: for the place that thou stondest on is lond holy and blessed.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • And be the chaungynge of tho flawmes, men of that contree knowen, whanne it schalle be derthe or gode tyme, or cold or hoot, or moyst or drye, or in alle othere maneres, how the tyme schalle be governed.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • From that chapelle, to go toward the est, at 140 paas, is a deep cave undre the roche, that is clept the Galylee of oure Lord; where Seynt Petre hidde him, whanne he had forsaken oure Lord.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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