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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
CHAP. XVII. MARCO GROWS IN FAVOUR
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like a sensible man he always took much pains to
gather knowledge of anything that would be likely to
interest him, and then on his return to Court he would
relate everything in regular order, and thus the Emperor
came to hold him in great love and favour. And for
this reason also he would employ him the oftener on
the most weighty and most distant of his missions.
These Messer Marco ever carried out with discretion
and success, God be thanked. So the Emperor became
ever more partial to him, and treated him with the
greater distinction, and kept him so close to his person
that some of the Barons waxed very envious thereat.
And thus it came about that Messer Marco Polo had
knowledge of, or had actually visited, a greater number
of the different countries of the World than any other
man ; the more that he was always giving his mind to
get knowledge, and to spy out and enquire into every-
thing in order to have matter to relate to the Lord.
CHAPTER XVII.
How MESSER NICOL°, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER MARCO, ASKED LEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN TO GO THEIR WAX%
WHEN the Two Brothers and Mark had abode with the
Lord all that time that you have been told [having
meanwhile acquired great wealth in jewels and gold],
they began among themselves to have thoughts about
returning to their own country ; and indeed it was time.
[For, to say nothing of the length and infinite perils
of the way, when they considered the Kaan's great age,
they doubted whether, in the event of his death before
their departure, they would ever be able to get home.']
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