Maria_, That is to say, Be not afraide Mary. And in many other places, sayth theyr booke Alkaron, that Jesu Christ spake as sone as he was borne, & the booke sayth that Jesu Christ was sent of Almighty God to be ensample to all men, and that God shall deme[8] all men, the good to heaven and the wicked to hell & that Jesu Christ is the best prophete of all other and nexte to God and that he was a holy prophet, for he gave to the blynde theyr sight, and heled Mesels[9] & raysed men and went all quick[10] to heaven. And if they may finde a boke with gospels, namely, _Missus est Angelus_, they doe it great worship, they fast a moneth in the yere & they eate but in the night, and they kepe them from theyr wyves, but they that are syke are not Constrayned to that. And that booke Alkaron speaketh of Jewes and sayth, they are wicked people for they will not beleve that Jesu Christ is of God. And they say, y^t the Jewes lye on our Lady and hir sonne Jesu Christ, saying that they did him not on the crosse, for Sarasyns beleve so nere our fayth, that they are lightly converted when men preche the lawe of Jesu Christ, and they saye that they wote well by theyr prophicies, that theyr lawe of Machomet shall fayll as doth the law of Jews and that Christen mens laws shall last unto the worlds ende. And if a man aske them wherein they beleve they say that they beleve in god almightie, that is the maker of heaven and earth and all other things and without him is nothing done and at the day of Judgement when euery man shall be rewarded after his deserving, & that all things is soth[11] that Christ said through the mouthes of his prophetes. [Footnote 1: The Koran.] [Footnote 2: Some say Meshaf. Mishaf means written sheets of paper.] [Footnote 3: Harme is "Haram," _sacred_.] [Footnote 4: Some say 80.] [Footnote 5: Taught by.] [Footnote 6: Other editions have Taknia.] [Footnote 7: Afraid.] [Footnote 8: Judge.] [Footnote 9: Lepers.] [Footnote 10: Alive.] [Footnote 11: True.] CAP. XLV. _Yet it treateth more of Machomet._