fearful, and these men clepen Radicals. And
they go ever in fear, and they scream on high for dread in the streets
and the houses, and they fain would flee away from all that their
fathers gat them with the sword. And this sort men call Scuttleres, but
the mean folk and certain of the womenkind hear them gladly, and they
say ever that Englishmen should flee out of Ynde. Fro England men gon
to Ynde by many dyverse Contreyes. For Englishmen ben very stirring and
nymble. For they ben in the seventh climate, that is of the Moon. And
the Moon (ye have said it yourself, Sir John, natheless, is it true) is
of lightly moving, for to go diverse ways, and see strange things, and
other diversities of the Worlde. Wherefore Englishmen be lightly moving,
and far wandering. And they gon to Ynde by the great Sea Ocean. First
come they to Gibraltar, that was the point of Spain, and builded upon a
rock; and there ben apes, and it is so strong that no man may take it.
Natheless did Englishmen take it fro the Spanyard, and all to hold the
way to Ynde. For ye may sail all about Africa, and past the Cape men
clepen of Good Hope, but that way unto Ynde is long and the sea is
weary. Wherefore men rather go by the Midland sea, and Englishmen have
taken many Yles in that sea.

For first they have taken an Yle that is clept Malta; and therein built
they great castles, to hold it against them of Fraunce, and Italy, and
of Spain. And from this Ile of Malta Men gon to Cipre. And Cipre is
right a good Yle, and a fair, and a great, and it hath 4 principal
Cytees within him. And at Famagost is one of the principal Havens of the
sea that is in the world, and Englishmen have but a lytel while gone won
that Yle from the Sarazynes. Yet say that sort of Englishmen where of I
told you, that is puny and sore adread, that the Lond is poisonous and
barren and of no avail, for that Lond is much more hotter than it is
here. Yet the Englishmen that ben werryoures dwell there in tents, and
the skill is that they may ben the more fresh.

From Cypre, Men gon to the Lond of Egypte, and in a Day and a Night he
that hath a good wind may come to the Haven of Alessandrie. Now the Lond
of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond
of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye
understond me not. Now Englishmen went in shippes to Alessandrie, and
brent it, and over ran the Lond, and their soudyours warred agen the
Bedoynes, and