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There is no force on earth that can equal in its conquering power the force of justice and wisdom.... Blessed is the king who marcheth with the ensign of wisdom unfurled before him, and the battalions of justice massed in his rear. He verily is the ornament that adorneth the brow of peace and the countenance of security.
First, if a man come from the west side of the world, as England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, or Norway, he may, if that he will, go through Almayne and through the kingdom of Hungary, that marcheth to the land of Polayne, and to the land of Pannonia, and so to Silesia. And the King of Hungary is a great lord and a mighty, and holdeth great lordships and much land in his hand.
His pinnacled throne the iceberg lone, His empire the boundless sea. "He rideth aloft on the mountain-tops, Rare sport doth he meet with there; He spinneth the snow in lightning flow, Till it gleams like a witch's hair." "O the Nor'west wind is a spirit brave, A conquering hero is he; And his fierce battle song, as he marcheth along, Is the shout of victory."
Yet there is, toward the parts Meridionals many countries and many regions, as the land of Ethiopia, that marcheth, toward the east to the great deserts, toward the west to the kingdom of Nubia, toward the south to the kingdom of Moretane, and toward the north to the Red Sea. After is Moretane, that dureth from the mountains of Ethiopia unto Lybia the high.
The woes of Belsaye are past and done behold, thy deliverance is at hand! I see one that rideth from the north and this I give thee for a sign he is tall, this man, bedight in sable armour and mounted upon a great white horse. And behind him marcheth a mighty following the woods be bright with the gleam of armour!
They haue besides the image of their King or great Can, of an huge bignesse, which they erect at euery stage when the army marcheth: and this euery one must bend and bowe vnto as he passeth by it, be he Tartar or stranger. They are much giuen to witchcraft, and ominous coniectures vpon euery accident which they heare or see. In making of mariages they haue no regard of alliance or consanguinitie.
It hath but two mountains in that country, of the which one hight Symar and that other Lyson. And this land marcheth to the kingdom of Chaldea.
And also ye shall understand, that the Jews have no proper land of their own for to dwell in, in all the world, but only that land between the mountains. And yet they yield tribute for that land to the Queen of Amazonia, the which that maketh them to be kept in close full diligently, that they shall not go out on no side but by the coast of their land; for their land marcheth to those mountains.
Arabia dureth from the ends of the realm of Chaldea unto the last end of Africa, and marcheth to the land of Idumea toward the end of Botron. And in Chaldea the chief city is Bagdad. And of Africa the chief city is Carthage, that Dido, that was Eneas's wife, founded; the which Eneas was of the city of Troy, and after was King of Italy.
"Truly!" cried Beltane, clenching his fists, "and he marcheth on Winisfarne, to burn and hang " "Content you, my lord Beltane, Waldron of Brand lieth in Winisfarne, and I am here " "So doth my heart rejoice for thee, Benedict, thou right trusty and doughty friend. But how came ye hither, and wherefore? Methought thee yet in Thrasfordham!" "Aha, dear lad, so doth Ivo at this moment, I pray God.
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