The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 - Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
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of ony other secte. For with outen ony drede, ne were cursednesse and synne
of Cristene men, thei scholden be lordes of alle the world. For the banere of Jesu Crist is alle weys displayed, and redy on alle sydes, to the help of his trewe lovynge servauntes: in so moche, that o gode Cristene man, in gode beleeve, scholde overcomen and out chacen a 1000 cursed mysbeleevynge men: as David seyth in the Psautere, _Quoniam persequebatur unus mille, et duo fugarent decem milia_. Et, _Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem milia a dextris tuis_. And how that it myghte ben, that on scholde chacen a 1000, David himself seythe, folewynge, _Quia manus Domini fecit hæc omnia_. And oure Lord himself seythe, be the prophetes mouth, _Si in viis meis ambulaveritis, super tribulantes vos misissem manum meam_. So that wee may seen apertely, that zif wee wil be gode men, non enemye ne may not enduren azenst us. Also zee schulle undirstonde, that out of that lond of derknesse, gothe out a gret ryvere, that schewethe wel, that there ben folk dwellynge, be many redy tokenes: but no man dar not entre in to it. And wytethe well, that in the kyngdoms of Georgie, of Abchaz and of the litile Armenye, ben gode Cristene men and devoute. For thei schryven hem and howsele hem evermore ones or twyes in the woke. And there ben many of hem, that howsele hem every day: and so do wee not on this half; alle be it that Seynt Poul commandethe it, seyenge, _Omnibus diebus dominicis ad communicandum hortor_. Thei kepen that commandement: but wee ne kepen it not. Also aftre, on this half, is Turkye, that marchethe to the gret Armenye. And there ben many provynces, as Capadoche, Saure, Brique, Quesiton, Pytan and Gemethe. And in everyche of theise ben many gode cytees. This Turkye strecchethe unto the cytee of Sachala, that sittethe upon the see of Grece; and so it marchethe to Syrie. Syrie is a gret contree and a gode, as I have told zou before. And also it hathe, aboven toward Ynde, the kyngdom of |
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