AND ye shall understand that all these men & folke that haue reason y^t I haue spoken of, haue some articles of our faith, all[1] if they be of divers lawes and divers beleves, yet they haue some good poynts of our fayth, & they beleve in God of kinde as theyr prophecie sayth, _Et metuent eum omnes fines terræ_, That is to say, And all endes of the earth shall dread him. And in another place, _Omnes gentes servient ei_, That is to say, All folk shall serve him, but they cannot speak parfitly but as theyr kyndly wit teacheth them, neither of the Son nor of the Holy Ghost can they speake, but they can speake well of the Byble, and specially of Genesis, and of the bokes of Moyses. And they say that those creatures y^t they worship are no gods, but they worship them for great vertue that is in them which may not be without special grace of God, & of simulacre and ydoles, they say that all men haue simulacres, and that, say they, for us christen men haue ymages of our Lady & other, but they wot not that we worship not the ymages of stone nor of wood, but the saynts of whome they are made, for as the letter teacheth clarkes how they shal beleve, so ymages and paynture teacheth lewde[2] men. They say also that the aungell of God speaketh to them in their ydoles & do miracles, they say soth,[3] but it is the evil aungell that doth myracles to maintaine them in their ydolatrie. [Footnote 1: Even.] [Footnote 2: Unlearned.] [Footnote 3: Truly.] CAP. CVIII. _How John Maundevyl leveth many mervailes unwrytten & the cause wherefore._ THERE are many other countreys where I haue not yet ben nor sene & therefore I can not speke properly of them. Also in countreys where I haue bene are many marvailes that I speke not of, for it were to long a tale and therefore hold you payd at this time y^t I haue sayd, for I will say no more of mervailes that are there, so that other men that go thither may fynde ynough for to say that I haue not tolde. [Decoration] CAP. CIX. _What time John Maundevil departed out of England._