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Footnote 88: wonder.

Footnote 89: brook.

Footnote 90: sounded.

Footnote 91: theirs

Footnote 92: rule

Footnote 93: righteousness

Footnote 94: called

Footnote 95: theirs

Footnote 96: yield

Footnote 97: say

Footnote 98: them

Footnote 99: hate

Footnote 100: persecute

Footnote 101: slander

Footnote 102: rains

Footnote 103: In its English form the alleged Mandeville describes the
lands and customs he has seen, and brings in all the wonders he has heard
about. Many things he has seen himself, he tells us, and these are
certainly true; but others he has heard in his travels, and of these the
reader must judge for himself. Then he incidentally mentions a desert where
he saw devils as thick as grasshoppers. As for things that he has been told
by devout travelers, here are the dog-faced men, and birds that carry off
elephants, and giants twenty-eight feet tall, and dangerous women who have
bright jewels in their heads instead of eyes, "and if they behold any man
in wrath, they slay him with a look, as doth the basilisk." Here also are
the folk of Ethiopia, who have only one leg, but who hop about with
extraordinary rapidity. Their one foot is so big that, when they lie in the
sun, they raise it to shade their bodies; in rainy weather it is as good as
an umbrella. At the close of this interesting book of travel, which is a
guide for pilgrims, the author promises to all those who say a prayer for
him a share in whatever heavenly grace he may himself obtain for all his
holy pilgrimages.

Footnote 104: For titles and publishers of reference works see General
Bibliography at the end of this book.

Footnote 105: _Constitutional History of England_.

Footnote 106: Symonds, _Revival of Learning_.

Footnote 107: Sismondi attributes this to two causes: first, the lack of
general culture; and second, the absorption of the schools in the new study
of antiquity. See _Literature of the South of Europe_, II, 400 ff.

Footnote 108: Erasmus, the greatest scholar of the Renaissance, was not
an Englishman, but seems to belong to every nation. He was born at
Rotterdam (_c_. 1466), but lived the greater part of his life in France,
Switzerland, England, and Italy. His _Encomium Moriae_ was sketched on a
journey from Italy (1509) and written while he was the guest of Sir Thomas
More in London.

Footnote 109: Unless, perchance, the reader finds some points of
re