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arrowes into the whole herd of beasts, and after him 

 all his Barons, and after them the rest of his courtiers 

 and family doe all in like maner discharge their arrowes 

 also, and every mans arrow hath a sundry marke. Then 

 they all goe unto the beasts which are slaine (suffering 

 the living beasts to returne into the wood that they 

 may have more sport with them another time) and every 

 man enjoyeth that beast as his owne, wherein he iindeth 

 his arrow sticking. 



Of the foure feasts which the great Can 

 solemnizeth every yeere in his Court. 



FOure great feasts in a yeere doeth the emperor Can 

 celebrate : namely, the feast of his birth, the feast of 

 his circumcision, the feast of his coronation, and the feast 

 of his mariage. And unto these feasts he inviteth all 

 his Barons, his stage-players, and all such as are of his 

 kinred. Then the great Can sitting in his throne, all 

 his Barons present themselves before him, with wreaths 

 and crownes upon their heads, being diversly attired, 

 for some of them are in greene, namely, the principall : 

 the second are in red, and the third in yellow, and they 

 hold each man in his hand a little Ivorie table of 

 elephants tooth, and they are girt with golden girdles of 

 halfe a foote broad, and they stand upon their feete 

 keeping silence. About them stand the stage-players 

 or musicians with their instruments. And in one of 

 the corners of a certaine great pallace, all the Philo- 

 sophers or Magicians remaine for certaine howers, and 

 doe attend upon points or characters : and when the 

 point and hower which the sayd Philosophers expected 

 for, is come, a certaine crier crieth out with a loud voyce, 

 saying. Incline or bowe your selves before your 

 Emperour : with that all the Barons fall flat upon the 

 earth. Then hee crieth out againe ; Arise all, and 

 immediately they all arise. Likewise the Philosophers 

 attend upon a point or character the second time, and 

 when it is fulfilled, the crier crieth out amaine ; Put 



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