men:  as David seyth in the Psautere, Quoniam persequebatur unus mille, et duo fugarent decem milia.  Et, Cadent a latere tuo mille, et decem milia a dextris tuis.  And how that it myghte ben, that on scholde chacen a 1000, David himself seythe, folewynge, Quia manus Domini fecit haec omnia.  And oure Lord himself seythe, be the prophetes mouth, Si in viis meis ambulaveritis, super tribulantes vos misissem manum meam.  So that wee may seen apertely, that zif wee wil be gode men, non enemye ne may not enduren azenst us.  Also zee schulle undirstonde, that out of that lond of derknesse, gothe out a gret ryvere, that schewethe wel, that there ben folk dwellynge, be many redy tokenes:  but no man dar not entre in to it.

And wytethe well, that in the kyngdoms of Georgie, of Abchaz and of the litile Armenye, ben gode Cristene men and devoute.  For thei schryven hem and howsele hem evermore ones or twyes in the woke.  And there ben many of hem, that howsele hem every day:  and so do wee not on this half; alle be it that Seynt Poul commandethe it, seyenge, Omnibus diebus dominicis ad communicandum hortor.  Thei kepen that commandement:  but wee ne kepen it not.

Also aftre, on this half, is Turkye, that marchethe to the gret Armenye.  And there ben many provynces, as Capadoche, Saure, Brique, Quesiton, Pytan and Gemethe.  And in everyche of theise ben many gode cytees.  This Turkye strecchethe unto the cytee of Sachala, that sittethe upon the see of Grece; and so it marchethe to Syrie.  Syrie is a gret contree and a gode, as I have told zou before.  And also it hathe, aboven toward Ynde, the kyngdom of Caldee, that strecchethe fro the mountaynes of Calde, toward the est, unto the cytee of Nynyvee, that sittethe upon the ryvere of Tygre:  and in largenesse, it begynnethe toward the northe, to the cytee of Maraga; and it strecchethe toward the southe, unto the see occean.  In Caldee is a pleyn contree, and fewe hilles and few ryveres.

Aftre is the kyngdom of Mesopotayme, that begynnethe toward the est, to the flom of Tygre, unto a cytee that is clept Moselle:  and it strecchethe toward the west, to the flom of Eufrate, unto a cytee that is clept Roianz:  and in lengthe it gothe to the mount of Armenye, unto the desert of Ynde the lesse.  This is a gode contree and a pleyn; but it hathe fewe ryveres.  It hathe but 2 mountaynes in that contree:  of the whiche, on highte Symar, and that other Lyson.  And this lond marchethe to the kyngdom of Caldee.

Zit there is, toward the parties meridionales, many contrees and many regyouns; as the lond of Ethiope, that marchethe, toward the est, to the grete desertes; toward the west, to the kyngdom of Nubye; toward the southe, to the kyngdom of Moretane; and toward the north to the Rede See.  Aftre is Moretane, that durethe fro the mountaynes of Ethiope, unto Lybie the hize.  And that contree lyzth a long fro the see ocean, toward the southe; and toward the northe,