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0368 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
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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.

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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