ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1558. 



passe by, knowing the cause, and having peradventure 

 compassion upon him, give the money, and so he is ran- 

 somed. 



In every good towne there is a drunken Taverne called 

 a Cursemay, which the Emperour sometime letteth out 

 to farme, & sometimes bestoweth for a yeare or two on 

 some duke or gentleman, in recompense of his service : 

 and for that time he is Lord of all the towne, robbing 

 and spoiling, and doing what pleaseth him : and then he 

 being growen rich, is taken by the Emperor, and sent to 

 the warres againe, where he shall spend all that which he 

 hath gotten by ill meanes : so that the Emperour in his 

 warres is little charged, but all the burden lieth upon the 

 poore people. 



They use sadles made of wood & sinewes, with the 

 tree gilded with damaske worke, & the seat covered with 

 cloth, sometimes of golde, and the rest Saphian leather, 

 well stitched. They use little drummes at their sadle 

 bowes, by the sound whereof their horses use to runne 

 more swiftly. 



The Russe is apparelled in this maner: his upper 

 garment is of cloth of golde, silke, or cloth, long, downe 

 to the foot, and buttoned with great buttons of silver, or 

 els laces of silke, set on with brooches, the sleeves thereof 

 very long, which he weareth on his arme, ruffed up. 

 Under that he hath another long garment, buttoned with 

 silke buttons, with a high coller standing up of some 

 colour, and that garment is made straight. Then his 

 shirt is very fine, and wrought with red silk, or some 

 gold, with a coller of pearle. Under his shirt he hath 

 linnen breeches, upon his legs, a paire of hose without 

 feete, and his bootes of red or yellow leather. On his 

 head hee weareth a white Colepecke, with buttons of 

 silver, gold, pearle, or stone, and under it a blacke Foxe 

 cap, turned up very broad. 



When he rideth on horsebacke to the warres, or any 

 journey, he hath a sword of the Turkish fashion, and his 

 bowe and arrowes of the same maner. In the towne he 



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