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the Prince of Peace , and tke Holy Doug bee a>pm the e, and 
make the dayes of thy Pilgrimage good and many. This hee 
faith to euery of them ; And that done, if there bee any of 
his Sonnes* of eminent Mcrrit and Vertue, (fo they bee not 
abouctwoj heccalicth for them againe j And faith, lay¬ 
ing his Arrnc oner their fhouldcrs, they ftanding ; Sonnes , 
it is well you are homey giue God the praife, and perfeuere to 
the end. And withall dcliuereth to either of them a Iewcll, 
made in the Figure of an Eare of Wheat, which they cucr af¬ 
ter wcarc in the front of their Turban* otHatr, This done, 
they fall to Muficke and dances. And other Recreations, af¬ 
ter their manner, for the reft ofthe day. This is the full order of 
that Feaft. 
By that time, fixer feuen Dayes were (pent, I was fallen 
into ftraight Acquaintance, with a Merchant of that Citty } 
whofe Name was loabin . Hcc was a lew and Qircumci- 
fed : For they hauc fome few Stirps of lewes, yet remai¬ 
ning among them, whom they leauc to their owne Reli¬ 
gion. Which they may the better doe, becaufe they are 
of a farre differing Difpofition from the Iewes in other 
Parts. For whereas they hate the name of Chr ist j 
A nd haue a fecret inbred Rancour againlt the People amongft 
whom they line ; Thefe (contrariwife) giuevnto our Sa- 
viovr many high Attributes, and louc the Nation of Ben- 
falenty extremely. Surely this Man, of whom I fpeakc, 
would euer acknowledge, that Christ was borne of a 
Virgin ; And that hee was more than a Man * And he: 
would tell how God made him Ruler of the Seraphims, 
which guard his Throane * And they call him alio the 
Milken Way , and the Eliah of the Meftiab * And many 0 - 
thcr High Names ; which though they bee Inferiour to his 
Diuinc Maiefty, Yet they are farre from the Language of 
other lewes. And for the Councrey of Benfalem, this Man 
would make no end of commending it ; Being defirous 
by Tradition among the lewes there, to hauc it bcleeued, 
that the People thereof were of the Generations of Abra¬ 
ham, by another Sonne, whom they call Nachoran , And 
that f 
