wel on hors bak, prykynge, as on fote, rennynge.  And the wommen maken alle thinges and alle maner mysteres and craftes; as of clothes, botes and other thinges; and thei dryven cartes, plowes and waynes and chariottes; and thei maken houses and alle maner of mysteres, out taken bowes and arwes and armures, that men maken.  And alle the wommen weren breech, as wel as men.  Alle the folk of that contree ben fulle obeyssant to hire sovereynes; ne thei fighten not ne chiden not, on with another.  And there ben nouther thefes ne robboures in that contree; and every man worschipethe othere:  but no man there dothe no reverence to no straungeres, but zif thei ben grete princes.  And thei eten houndes, lyounes, lyberdes, mares and foles, asses, rattes and mees, and alle maner of bestes, grete and smale; saf only swyn, and bestes that weren defended by the olde lawe.  And thei eaten alle the bestes, with outen and with inne, with outen castynge awey of ony thing, saf only the filthe.  And thei eten but litille bred, but zif it be in courtes of grete lordes.  And thei have not, in many places, nouther pesen ne benes, ne non other potages, but the brothe of the flessche.  For littile ete thei ony thing, but flessche and the brothe.  And whan thei han eten, thei wypen hire hondes upon hire skirtes:  for thei use non naperye, ne towaylles, but zif it be before grete lordes:  but the common peple hathe none.  And whan thei han eten, thei putten hire dissches unwasschen in to the pot or cawdroun, with remenant of the flessche and of the brothe, till thei wole eten azen.  And the ryche men drynken mylk of mares or of camaylles or of asses or of other bestes.  And thei wil ben lightly dronken of mylk, or of another drynk, that is made of hony and of watre soden to gidre.  For in that contree is nouther wyn ne ale.  Thei lyven fulle wrecched liche; and thei eten but ones in the day, and that but lyttle, nouther in courtes ne in other places.  And in soothe, o man allone in this contree wil ete more in a day, than on of hem will ete in 3 dayes.  And zif ony straunge messagre come there to a lord, men maken him to ete but ones a day, and that fulle litille.

And whan thei werren, thei werren fulle wisely, and alle weys don here besynes, to destroyen hire enemyes.  Every man there berethe 2 bowes or 3, and of arwes gret plentee, and a gret ax.  And the gentyles han schorte speres and large, and fulle trenchant on that o syde:  and thei han plates and helmes, made of quyrboylle; and hire hors covertoures of the same.  And who so fleethe fro the bataylle, thei sle him.  And whan thei holden ony sege abouten castelle or toun, that is walled and defensable, thei behoten to hem that ben with inne, to don alle the profite and gode, that it is marveylle to here:  and thei graunten also to hem that ben with inne, alle that thei wille asken hem.  And aftre that thei ben zolden, anon thei sleen hem alle, and kutten of hire eres, and sowcen hem in vynegre, and there of