[Sidenote:  Charita Mandeuilli.] Ergo per praemissa satis elucet magnam esse nobilitatem, potestatem, reuerentiam, et dominationem Imperatoris Tartariae Grand Can de Cathay, et quod nullus ab ista parte Imperator nec Persiae, nec Babylonia, nec Greciae, sed nec Romae est illi comparandus.  Vnde et multum miserandum est, quia ipse cum toto Imperio nec est fide Catholica illustratus, nec salutari lauachro regeneratus:  et hoc oremus vt in breui eueniat, per Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum.

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The English Version.

And whan the emperour dyethe, men setten him in a chayere in myddes the place of his tent:  and men setten a table before him clene, covered with a clothe, and there upon flesche and dyverse vyaundes, and a cuppe fulle of mares mylk:  And men putten a mare besyde him, with hire fole, and an hors saddled and brydeled; and thei leyn upon the hors gold and silver gret quantytee:  and thei putten abouten him gret plentee of stree:  and than men maken a gret pytt and a large; and with the tent and alle theise other thinges, then putten him in erthe.  And thei seyn, that whan he schalle come in to another world, he schalle not ben with outen an hows, ne with owten hors, ne with outen gold and sylver:  and the mare schalle zeven him mylk, and bryngen him forthe mo hors, tille he be wel stored in the tother world.  For thei trowen, that aftre hire dethe, thei schulle be etynge and drynkynge in that other world, and solacynge hem with hire wifes, as thei diden here.  And aftre tyme, that the emperour is thus entered, no man schalle be so hardy to speke of him before his frendes, And zit natheles somtyme fallethe of manye, that thei maken hem to ben entered prevylly be nyghte, in wylde places, and putten azen the grasse over the pytt for to growe:  or elle men coveren the pytt with gravelle and sond, that no man schalle perceyve where, ne knowe where the pytt is, to that entent, that never aftre, non of his frendes schulle han mynde ne rememberance of him.  And thanne thei seyn, that he is ravissht in to another world where he is a grettre lord, than he was here.  And thanne aftre the dethe of the emperour, the 7 lynages assemblen hem to gidere, and chesen his eldest sone, or the nexte aftre him, of his blood:  and thus thei seye to him; wee wolen and wee preyen and ordeynen, that zee ben oure lord and oure emperour.  And thanne he answerethe, zif yee wile, that I regne over zou, as lord, do eyeryche of zou, that I schalle commanden him, outher to abyde or to go; and whom soever that I commaunde to ben slayn, that anon he be slayn.  And thei answeren alle with o voys, what so evere zee commanden, it schalle be don.  Thanne seythe the emperour, now undirstondethe wel, that my woord from hens forthe, is scharp and bytynge as a swerd.  After men setten him upon a blak stede, and so men bryngen him to a cheyere fulle richely arrayed, and there thei crownen hym.  And thanne alle the cytees and gode townes senden hym ryche presentes; so that at that iourneye, he schalle have more than 60 chariottes charged with gold and sylver, with outen jewelles of gold and precyouse stones, that lordes zeven hym, that ben withouten estymacioun:  and with outen hors and clothes of gold and of Camakaas and Tartarynes, that ben with outen nombre.