(A batt.)

  Ouvert de l’un des bouts une queue on me donne
  Afin qu’avec le bec je la traine par tout,
  Puis conduite au labeur que ma Dame ordonne
  Je laisse a chasque pas de ma queue le bout.

      (A neidle.)

  Trois ames en un corps distinguees d’essence
  Ensemble subsistoyent not knowing they ware so many,
  Deux enfin ont pris l’air, puis de mesme apparence
  En trois corps distinguez chacum les a peu voir.

      (A woman wt tuines.)

We saw a book, originally written in Latin by a Spaniard,[252] translated in French, entituled, Histoire du grand royaume de la Chine situe aux Indes Orientales, contenant la situation, Antiquite, fertilite, Religion, ceremonies, sacrifices, Rois, Magistrats Moeurs, us,[253] Loix, et autres choses memorables du dit Royaume, etc., containing many things wery remarkable and weill worth the reading. showing how its bounded on al hands, having the Tartars for its neirest neibhours, whom it descrives whow it was discovered first by the Portugais, and the Spaniards at Mexico in Americk.

    [252] Gonzalez de Mendoza.

    [253] Usages.

To the wondrous fertility of the country, much of it laying to the same climat wt Italy, the Inhabitants addes great industry:  no vagabonds nor idle persons being suffered amongs them but punished vigorously.  They have no cloath.  The meanest of the natives are cloathed in silk:  its so rife their that its to be had almost for nothing.

France also hath some silk wormes wtin it selfe; but besydes the peins they most be at to feid them wt fresch mulberry leaves, they have no great abondance of them, whence they draw the most of their silk from Italy wheir its in great abondance; as Florence, litle republic of Lucques, Messin, as also from Grenade.  Oranges of Chine are knowen for the best of the world.  Cannel[254] (which growes not in France) is in its excellency their.

    [254] Cinamon.

In selling and buying all things solid they weight them, even their mony, which hath no stamp, as in selling selks and other sick things, wheirin ther cannot be so meikle knavery as in metting them by elles.

Great abondance of silk caddez[255] cotton produced by a trie (not growing in france, but just as the tries distilles the pick)[256] as of musk, wt the manner whow they make it.

    [255] A kind of cloth.

    [256] Pitch.

The realme is found some 1800 leagues in longitude; 3000 in circumference.  Its divided unto 15 great Provinces, each plenished wt wast cities, som of them taking 2 dayes to compasse them.

Their follows a description of the natural disposition, traits of face, sorts of cloaths wt the excercises the men and women are addicted to.  They are al Pagans, worshiping plurality of gods, seweral things in their religion symbolizing wt the Christian, which may be imputed to some seeds of the Gospel the Aposle Thomas sowed their in going to the Indians, wheir he was martyred.