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P valiant, who knew well by hearsay, according as Mahomet their most unhappy ti FA prophet had told them, that their Paradise was made in such manner as I have told d FB R you, and so they believed in truth as Saracens believe it. • And every day he preached to 1 them of this garden of Mahomet, and how he was able to make them go therein. And what ;1+' V VB shall I tell you about it? Sometimes the Old Man, when he wished to kill any lord a who made war or was his enemy, made them put some of these youths into that :i FB R FB Paradise by fours and sixes and by tens or twelves and by twenties together just as he TA wished, in this way. For he had opium to drink given them by which they fell asleep 4 R FB TA and as if half dead immediately as soon as they had drunk it, • and they slept quite three ;p LT V days• and three nights. Then he had them taken in this sleep and put into that garden ii FB R FB FB of his, • into different rooms of the said palaces, and there made them wake, and they found vi themselves there. ,l
OBEDIENT. And when the youths were waked up and they find themselves l! FB l 1 in there and see themselves in so fine a place and they see all these things i4 , VA R which I have told you, made just as the law of Mahomet says, • and the damsels were round ij dalliance which they could imagine, giving them food and most delicate wines, so that intoxicated ti with so many pleasures and with the little streams of milk and wine which they saw, they '~It R believe that they are most truly in Paradise. And the ladies and the damsels stayed ii Ipii ' FA: qui auoient volente destre hommes darmes et leur disoit ihq | |||||
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