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ing marriage. They allow no polygamy. They have 

 ordained that none do intermarry, or contract, until 

 a month be past from their first interview. Marriage 

 without consent of parents they do not make void, but 

 they mulct it in the inheritors ; for the children of such 

 marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third 

 part of their parents inheritance. 



And as we were thus in conference, there came one 

 that seemed to be a messenger, in a rich huke, that 

 spake with the Jew ; whereupon he turned to me, and 

 said, * You will pardon me, for I am commanded away 

 in haste. The next morning he came to me again, 

 joyful as it seemed, and said, There is word come to 

 the Governor of the city, that one of the fathers of Salo 

 mon s House will be here this day seven-night ; we 

 have seen none of them this dozen years. His coming 

 is in state ; but the cause of his coming is secret. I will 

 provide you and your fellows of a good standing to see 

 his entry. I thanked him, and told him I was most 

 glad of the news. 



The day being come he made his entry. He was 

 a man of middle stature and age, comely of person, and 

 had an aspect as if he pitied men. He was clothed in 

 a robe of fine black cloth, with wide sleeves, and a cape : 

 his under garment was of excellent white linen down to 

 the foot, girt with a girdle of the same ; and a sindon or 

 tippet of the same about his neck. He had gloves that 

 were curious, and set with stone ; and shoes of peach- 

 coloured velvet. His neck was bare to the shoulders. 

 His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish montero ; and 

 his locks curled below it decently : they were of colour 

 brown. His beard was cut round and of the same 

 colour with his hair, somewhat lighter. He was carried 

 in a rich chariot, without wheels, litter-wise, with two 

 horses at either end, richly trapped in blue velvet em 

 broidered ; and two footmen on each side in the like 

 attire. The chariot was all of cedar, gilt, and adorned 

 with crystal ; save that the fore-end had panels of 

 sapphires, set in borders of gold, and the hinder-end 

 the like of emeralds of the Peru colour. There was also 



