aftre the custom of the contree.  For he hathe every day, 50 fair damyseles, alle maydenes, that serven him everemore at his mete, and for to lye be hem o nyght, and for to do with hem that is to his pleasance.  And whan he is at the table, they bryngen him hys mete at every tyme, 5 and 5 to gedre.  And in bryngynge hire servyse, thei syngen a song.  And aftre that, thei kutten his mete, and putten it in his mouthe; for he touchethe no thing ne handlethe nought, but holdethe evere more his hondes before him, upon the table.  For he hathe so long nayles, that he may take no thing, ne handle no thing.  For the noblesse of that contree is to have longe nayles, and to make hem growen alle weys to ben as longe as men may.  And there ben manye in that contree, that han hire nayles so longe, that thei envyronne alle the hond:  and that is a gret noblesse.  And the noblesse of the wommen, is for to haven smale feet and litille:  and therfore anon as thei ben born, they leet bynde hire feet so streyte, that thei may not growen half as nature wolde; and alle weys theise damyseles, that I spak of beforn, syngen alle the tyme that this riche man etethe:  and whan that he etethe no more of his firste cours, than other 5 and 5 of faire damyseles bryngen him his seconde cours, alle weys syngynge, as thei dide beforn.  And so thei don contynuelly every day, to the ende of his mete.  And in this manere he ledethe his lif.  And so dide thei before him, that weren his auncestres; and so schulle thei that comen aftre him, with outen doynge of ony dedes of armes:  but lyven evere more thus in ese, as a swyn, that is fedde in sty, for to ben made fatte.  He hathe a fulle fair palays and fulle riche, where that he dwellethe inne:  of the whiche, the walles ben in circuyt 2 myle:  and he hathe with inne many faire gardynes, and many faire halles and chambres, and the pawment of his halles and chambres ben of gold and sylver.  And in the myd place of on of his gardynes, is a lytylle mountayne, wher there is a litylle medewe:  and in that medewe, is a litylle toothille with toures and pynacles, alle of gold:  and in that litylle toothille wole he sytten often tyme, for to taken the ayr and to desporten hym:  for that place is made for no thing elles, but only for his desport.

Fro that contree men comen be the lond of the grete Chane also, that I have spoken of before.

And ze schulle undirstonde, that of alle theise contrees, and of alle theise yles, and of alle the dyverse folk, that I have spoken of before, and of dyverse lawes, and of dyverse beleeves that thei han; zit is there non of hem alle, but that thei han sum resoun with in hem and undirstondynge, but zif it be the fewere:  and that han certeyn articles of oure feithe and summe gode poyntes of oure beleeve:  and that thei beleeven in God, that formede alle thinges and made the world; and clepen him God of Nature, aftre that the prophete seythe, Et metuent cum omnes fines terre:  and also in another place, Omnes gentes servient