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Citation Information
THE
BOOK OF MARCO POLO.
PROLOGUE.
GREAT PRINCES, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes and
Marquises, Counts, Knights, and Burgesses ! and People
of all degrees who desire to get knowledge of the
various races of mankind and of the diversities of the
sundry regions of the World, take this Book and cause
it to be read to you. For ye shall find therein all
kinds of wonderful things, and the divers histories of
the Great Hermenia, and of Persia, and of the Land
of the Tartars, and of India, and of many another
country of which our Book doth speak, particularly and
in regular succession, according to the description of
Messer Marco Polo, a wise and noble citizen of Venice,
as he saw them with his own eyes. Some things
indeed there be therein which he beheld not ; but these
he heard from men of credit and veracity. And we
shall set down things seen as seen, and things heard
as heard only, so that no jot of falsehood may mar the
truth of our Book, and that all who shall read it or hear
it read may put full faith in the truth of all its contents.
For let me tell you that since our Lord God did
mould with his hands our first Father Adam, even until
this day, never hath there been Christian, or Pagan, or
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