ated from the new Prage, with
an exceeding deep ditch, and round about enclosed with a wall of brick;
unto this is adjoining the Jews' town, wherein are thirteen thousand
men, women, and children, all Jews; there he viewed the college and the
gardens, where all manner of savage beasts are kept; and from thence he
fetched a compass round about the three towns, whereat he wondered
greatly to see so mighty a city stand all within the walls.

From Prage he flew into the air, and bethought himself what he
might do, or which way to take; so looked round about, and behold he
espied a passing fair city, which lay not far from Prage, about some
four-and-twenty miles, and that was Bressaw in Silesia, in which when he
was entered, it seemed to him that he had been in Paradise, so neat and
clean were the streets, and so sumptuous were their buildings. In the
city he saw not many wonders, except the brazen Virgin that standeth
on a bridge over the water, and under which standeth a mill like a
paper-mill, which Virgin is made to do execution upon those disobedient
town-born children that be so wild that their parents cannot bridle
them; which, when any such are found with some heinous offence, turning
to the shame of their parents and kindred, they are brought to kiss the
Virgin, which openeth her arms. The person then to be executed kisseth
her, then doth she close her arms together with such violence, that she
crusheth out the breath of the party, breaketh his bulk, and so he
dieth; but being dead she openeth her arms again, and letteth the party
fall into the mill, where he is stamped into small morsels, which the
water carrieth away, so that no part is found again.

From Bressaw he went toward Cracovia, in the kingdom of Polionia, where
he beheld the academy, the which pleased him wonderful well. In the city
the king most commonly holdeth his court at a castle, in which castle
are many famous monuments; there is a most sumptuous church in the same,
in which standeth a silver altar gilded and set with rich stones, and
over it is a covenance full of all manner of silver ornaments belonging
to mass. In the church hangeth the jaw-bones of a huge dragon, that kept
the rock before the castle was edified thereon: it is full of all manner
of munition, and hath always victuals for three years to serve three
thousand men; through the town runneth a river, called the Vessnal or
Wessel, where over is a fair wooden bridge; this water divideth