ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1565. 



same colour follow many other that weare on the crownes 

 of their heads faire, litle, threesquare, blacke lethren caps 

 tied fast under their chinnes (for that is honorable amongst 

 them) with papers on their heads, wherein the name of 

 the devill I spake of, is written. And to make it the 

 more solemne, after commeth a man with a table one 

 cubite long, one foot broad, covered with a very fine 

 white vaile, in both sides whereof is written in golden 

 letters the aforesayd name. At the length by foure men 

 is brought foorth the corps sitting in a gorgeous litter 

 clothed in white, hanging downe his head and holding 

 his hands together like one that prayed : to the rest of 

 his apparell may you adde an upper gowne of paper, 

 written full of that booke the which his God is sayd to 

 have made, when he lived in the world, by whose helpe 

 and merites commonly they doe thinke to be saved. The 

 dead man his children come next after him most gallantly 

 set foorth, the yongest wherof carieth likewise a pineaple 

 torch to kindle the fire. Last of all foloweth a great 

 number of people in such caps as I erst spake of. 

 When they are al come to ye place appointed for the 

 [II. ii. 86.] obsequie, al the Bonzii w* the whole multitude for the 

 space of one houre, beating pannes and basons with great 

 clamours, call upon the name of that devill, the which 

 being ended, the Obsequie is done in this maner. In 

 the midst of a great quadrangle railed about, hanged with 

 course linnen, and agreeably unto the foure partes of the 

 world made with foure gates to goe in and out at, is 

 digged a hole : in the hole is laied good store of wood, 

 whereon is raised gallantly a waved roofe : before that 

 stand two tables furnished with divers kindes of meates, 

 especially drie Figs, Pomegranates and Tartes good store, 

 but neither Fish nor Flesh : upon one of them standeth 

 also a chafer with coales, and in it sweete wood to make 

 perfumes. When all this is readie, the corde wherewith 

 the litter was caried, is throwen by a long rope into the 

 fire : as many as are present strive to take the rope in 

 their handes, using their aforesayd clamours, which done, 



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