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nocephalous portraiture, exhibiting a marked resemblance to Anubis, 

 with symbols of the Egyptian mythology. 



Marvels and satyres, Cyclopes and hermaphrodites, panotes and hip- 

 popodes, monkes and babewynes, dwerghes and geauntes, with folk of 

 dyverse schap and merveylously disfigured, are main topics in the 

 nineteenth chapter of our knyghte's lucubrations. He depicts the 

 " Lond of Pigmaus'* with much vivacity. 



** There," he says, " the folk ben of lityelle stature that ben but 3 span 

 long, and thai ben ryghte faire and gentylle aftre here quantytees, both the 

 men and the women. And thei maryen hem whan thei ben half zere of age 

 and geten children ; and thei ly ven not but 6 zeer or 7 at the moste. And 

 he that lyvethe 8 zeer, men holden him there ryghte passynge old. Theise 

 men ben the beste worcheres of gold, sylver, cotoun, sylk, and of alle suche 

 thinges, of ony other, that be in the world. And they han often times werre 



with the briddes of the contree that thei taken and eten. This litylle folk 

 nouther labouren in londes ne in vynes ; but thei han grete men amonges 

 hem, of oure stature, that tylen the lond and labouren amonges the vynes 

 for hem ; and of tho men of our stature have thei als grete skorne and won- 

 dre as we wolde have amonges us of geauntes, zif thei weren amonges us. 

 There is a gode cytee amonges othere where is duellynge gret plentee of tho 

 lityelle folk ; and it is a gret cytee and a faire, and the men ben grete that 

 duellen amonges hem ; but whan thei geten ony children thei ben als litylle 

 as the pygmeyes, and therfore thei ben alle, for the most part, alle pigmeyes, 

 for the nature of the lond is suche. And alle be it that the pigmeyes ben 

 litylle, zit thei ben fuUe resonable aftre here age, and connen bothen wytt 

 and gode and malice y now." 



