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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: smell that they have. And those skins they prize more than though
they were plate of fine gold.
And in the midst of this palace is the mountour for the great Chan,
that is all wrought of gold and of precious stones and great
pearls. And at four corners of the mountour be four serpents of
gold. And all about there is y-made large nets of silk and gold
and great pearls hanging all about the mountour. And under the
mountour be conduits of beverage that they drink in the emperor's
court. And beside the conduits be many vessels of gold, by the
which they that be of household drink at the conduit.
And the hall of the palace is full nobly arrayed, and full
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