feast they spot their faces in diuers
parts with saffron all yellow, and so walke vp and downe the streets; and
this they doe as a custome. They hold, there shalbe a resurrection, and all
shall come to iudgement, but the account shalbe most streight, insomuch
that but one of 10000 shalbe receiued to fauor, and those shall liue againe
in this world in great happinesse: the rest shalbe tormented. And because
they will escape this iudgdment, when any man dieth, he and his wife be
both burnt together euen to ashes, and then they are thrown into a river,
and so dispersed as though they had neuer bene. If the wife will not burne
with her dead husband, she is holden euer after as a whore. And by this
meanes they hope to escape the iudgement to come. As for the soule, that
goeth to the place from whence it came, but where the place is they know
not. That the body should not be made againe they reason with the
philosophers, saying, that of nothing nothing can be made (not knowing that
God made the whole world and their god the Sun of nothing) but beholding
the course of nature, that nothing is made but by a meanes, as by the seed
of a man is made another, and by corne cast into the ground there commeth
vp new corne: so, say they, man cannot be made except some part of him be
left, and therefore they burne the whole: for if he were buried in the
earth, they say there is a small bone in the necke which would neuer be
consumed: or if he were eaten by a beast, that bone would not consume, but
of that bone would come another man; and then the soule being restored
againe, he should come into iudgement, whereas now the body being
destroyed, the soule shall not be iudged: for their opinion is, that both
body and soule must be vnited together, as they haue sinned together, to
receiue iudgement; and therefore the soule alone cannot. Their seuen
precepts which they keepe so strictly are not for any hope of reward they
haue after this life, but onely that they may be blessed in this world, for
they thinke that he which breaketh them shall haue ill successe in all his
businesse.

They say, the three chiefe religions in the world be of the Christians,
Iewes, and Turks, and yet but one of them true: but being in doubt which is
the truest of the three, they will be of none: for they hold that all these
three shall be iudged, and but few of them which be of the true shall be
saued, the examination shall be so straight; and therefore, as I haue sa