[Footnote 6: Inconvenience.] [Footnote 7: _Pynson_ and other editions say Two thousand.] [Footnote 8: Here the chronology is somewhat involved, as Hermogenes lived in the time of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, _who was born_ A.D. 121.] [Footnote 9: Plenary.] [Footnote 10: Absolve.] [Footnote 11: Covetousness.] [Footnote 12: Unleavened bread.] [Footnote 13: Last Supper.] [Footnote 14: Shrove Thursday.] [Footnote 15: In the sun.] [Footnote 16: Doom, or the day of judgment.] [Footnote 17: Scandal.] [Footnote 18: If by chance they should do so.] [Footnote 19: Only seemed to eat.] [Footnote 20: Forbidden.] [Footnote 21: Promised.] [Footnote 22: Hinders.] CAP: III. _To come againe to Constantinople for to go toward the holy land._ [Illustration] NOW come we againe for to know the way from Constantinople. He that will go through Turkey, he goeth through the citie of Nyke,[1] and passeth through the gate of Chivitot that is right highe, and it is a myle and a halfe from Nyke, and who so wyll go by the brache[2] of Sainct George, and by the Greeke sea there as Sainct Nicolas lyeth, and other places. First men come to the yle of Silo, and in that ile groweth mastike upon small trees as plomtrees, or chery trees. And then after men go through the ile of Pathmos, where Saint John the Evangelist wrote the Apocalips and I do you to wete,[3] when our Lorde Jesu Christ died, Saint John the Evangelist was of the age of xxxii yeare and he lived after the passion of Christ lxiii[4] year and then died. Fro Pathmos men go to Ephesim which is a faire citie and neare to the sea, and there died sainct John & he was buried behind the high aulter in a tombe, and there is a fayre church, for Christen men were wont to holde that place, but in the tombe of sainct John is nothing but Manna, for his body was translated[5] into paradise, & the Turkes hold now that citie and the church, and all Asia the lesse, & therefore is Asia the lesse called Turkey. And ye shall understand that sainct John did make his grave ther in his lyfe and laied himselfe therein all quick[6] & therefore some say he dyed not, but that he resteth there unto the day of judgement, and therefore truely there is a great marvaile, for men may see there apertly[7] y^e earth of the tombe many times stirre and move, as there were a quick thing under. And from Ephesim, men go through many iles in the sea unto the citie of Pateran[8] where sainct Nicolas was borne and so to Marca[9] where he by the grace of God was chosen Bishop, and there groweth right good wyne and strong, that men call the wyne of Marca. From thence men go to the yle of Crete, which the Emperor gave sometime to Jonais.[10] And then men passe through the yles of Cophos and Lango[11] of the which yles Ipocras[12] was lord, and some say that in the yle of Lango is Ipocras daughter in maner of a Dragon, which is a