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0291 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000269
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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

VOL. I.   A

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