ufferance of regress. In some countries, so great and populous
that they cannot well be carried and conveyed thence, he destroyeth
the gentlefolk and giveth the lands partly to such as he bringeth
and partly to such as willingly will deny their faith, and keepeth
the others in such misery that they might as well (in a manner) be
dead at once. In rest he suffereth else no Christian man almost,
but those that resort as merchants or those that offer themselves
to serve him in his war.

But as for those Christian countries that he useth not only for
tributaries, as he doth Chios, Cyprus, or Crete, but reckoneth for
clear conquest and utterly taketh for his own, as Morea, Greece,
and Macedonia, and such others--and as I verily think he will
Hungary, if he get it--in all those he useth Christian people after
sundry fashions. He letteth them dwell there, indeed, because they
would be too many to carry all away, and too many to kill them all,
too, unless he should either leave the land dispeopled and desolate
or else, from some other countries of his own, should convey the
people thither (which would not be well done) to people that land
with. There, lo, those who will not be turned from their faith, of
which God--lauded be his holy name!--keepeth very many, he
suffereth to dwell still in peace. But yet is their peace for all
that not very peaceable. For he suffereth them to have no lands of
their own, honourable offices they bear none; with occasions of his
wars, he plucketh them unto the bare bones with taxes and tallages.
Their children he chooseth where he will in their youth, and taketh
them from their parents, conveying them whither he will, where
their friends never see them after, and abuseth them as he will.
Some young maidens he maketh harlots, some young men he bringeth up
in war, and some young children he causeth to be gelded--not their
stones cut out as the custom was of old, but their whole members
cut off by the body; how few escape and live he little careth, for
he will have enough! And all whom he so taketh young, to any use of
his own, are betaken unto such Turks or false renegades to keep,
that they are turned from the faith of Christ every one. Or else
they are so handled that, as for this world, they come to an evil
end. For, besides many other contumelies and despites that the
Turks and the false renegade Christians many times do to good
Christian people who still persevere and abide by the faith, they