[Footnote 3: _Pynson_ says "obeyed unto the damsell"--that is, made obeisance, or bowed to her.] [Footnote 4: Sweetheart.] [Footnote 5: Since then.] [Footnote 6: From the Colossus there, a statue of Jupiter 70 cubits high, and which was accounted as one of the wonders of the world.] [Footnote 7: This is not so. The Epistle to the Colossians was addressed to the inhabitants of Colossæ, a city in Phrygia--which is clearly shown by his referring in cap. 4, v. 13, to two neighbouring cities. "For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in _Laodicea_, and them in _Hierapolis_."] [Footnote 8: _Pynson_ and others say 800.] [Decoration] CAP: V. _Of a young man and his lemman._ [Illustration] GO unto the tombe of the same woman that you hast lien by & op[=e] it, behold well that which thou hast begotten on hir and if thou let for to go, thou shalt haue a great harme, and he went and opened the tombe and there flew out an head[1] right hideous for to see, the which head flew all about the citie and countrey, and sone after the citie and the countrey sanke downe, & ther are many perilous passages. Fro Rodes to Cipres is five hundred mile and more, but men may go to Cipres and come not at Rodes. Cipres is a good yle & a great, and there are many good cities, and there is an Archbishoppe at Nichosy,[2] and foure other Bishops in the lande. And at Famagost is one of the best havens on the sea that is in the worlde, and there are christen men and Sarasins and men of all nations. In Cipres is the hill of the holy crosse, and there is the crosse of the good thefe Dismas, as I sayd before, and some wene[3] that there is halfe of the crosse of our lord, but it is not so, and they do wrong that make men to believe so. In Cipres lieth S. Simeon, of whome the men of the countrey make a great solempnitie, and in the Castell of Amours lyeth the body of Saint Hillarion, and men kepe it worshipfully, and beside Famagost was sainct Barnarde[4] borne. [Footnote 1: An edder, or adder--really meaning a winged serpent.] [Footnote 2: Nicosia.] [Footnote 3: Imagine.] [Footnote 4: Barnabas.] [Decoration] CAP: VI. _Of the maner of hunting in Cipres._ [Illustration]