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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO BOOK I.
NOTE 2. --` ` Cum sez regisles et cum sez casses." (G. T.) I suppose the former expression to be a form of Regales, which is used in Polo's book for persons of a religious rule or order, whether Christian or Pagan. The latter word (casses) I take to be the Arabic Kashísli, properly a Christian Presbyter, but frequently applied by old travellers, and habitually by the Portuguese (caxiz, caxix), to Mahomedan Divines. (See Cathay, p. 568.) It may, however, be Kízzi
Pauthier's text has simply " á ses prestres de la Loi."
CHAPTER VIII.
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How THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF HAD SAID.
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THE Christians on hearing what the Calif had said were
in great dismay, but they lifted all their hopes to God,
their Creator, that He would help them in this their
strait. All the wisest of the Christians took counsel
together, and among them were a number of bishops
and priests, but they had no resource except to turn to
Him from whom all good things do come, beseeching
Him to protect them from the cruel hands of the Calif.
So they were all gathered together in prayer, both
men and women, for eight days and eight nights. And
whilst they were thus engaged in prayer it was revealed
in a vision by a Holy Angel of Heaven to a certain
Bishop who was a very good Christian, that he should
desire a certain Christian Cobler,1 who had but one eye,
to pray to God ; and that God in His goodness would
grant such prayer because of the Cobler's holy life.
Now I must tell you what manner of man this Cobler
was. He was one who led a life of great uprightness
and chastity, and who fasted and kept from all sin, and
went daily to church to hear Mass, and gave daily a
portion of his gains to God. And the way how he came
to have but one eye was this. It happened one day that
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