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then burn
him alive.
They come
to a won-
drous wood-
land with
trees that
spring up
in the day-
time and at
sunset sink
back into
the earth,
with fruit
of sweet
smell but
of bitter
taste.
A knight
takes of
this, but is
smitten
dead by an
evil spirit,
and a voice
proclaims
the same to
any that
come nigh.
In that
* Leaf 38.
place are
tame birds,
and who
touches
them is
scorched
by fire.
They come
to a moun-
tain, climb
for 8 days,
and at the
top they
fight
dragons,
etc. Going
down they
come into
a dark val-
ley with
wondrous
trees and
streams,
and a
mountain
with thick
air,

Wondrous trees, mountains, and valleys.

gerte bynd hym till a tree & make a fyre abowte hym & brynne hym. And so pay didd. Fra peine pay remowed & come till anoper felde in pe whilke pare ware growand treesse, of a wonderfull heghte, and pay bigan for to sprynge vp at pe son rysynge ; And bi pe son settynge pay wyted a-way in-to pe erthe agayne. At pe firste houre of pe day bi-gan to sprynge oute of pe erthe, & so pay wex ay to myddaye, and pan pay bi-gan to decresse. And by pe son) settynge pay ware in pe erthe agayne, And was na thyng of pam sene bi-fore on pe morne. Pir treesse
bare a fruyte wonder swete of reflayre bot fay [ware] bitter of taste. When Alexander saw pat fruyte he bade a knyghte bryng hym pareoffe. And he went & tuk pare-offe, and onane a wikked spirit smate hym, and be-lyfe he was dede. And pan pay herd a voyce in pe ayer pat said on f is wyse : ' What man
so neghes pir treesse he sall dye onane. Pare was also in pat
felde fewles wonder meke & tame. Bot what man so layde nande on any of pam, onane pare come fire oute of pam, & brynt hym riz[?]te greuosly.

* ^ Than pay remowed fra peine, And come till a Mountayne, pat was so hye, pat pay ware viij dayes in gangyng ar pay myzte wyne to pe heghte pare-offe. And when pay come to pe heghte of it, pare come agaynes pam a grete multitude of dragones, Serpentes, and lyones pe whilke turmentid Alexander & his men reghte gretely. And at pe laste, pay askaped paire daungere, and went doune of pe mountayne and come in-till a vaylay pat was so myrke pat vnnethes myghte ane of pam See anoper. In pat depe valay ware treesse growand of whilke pe fruyte & pe lefes ware wonder sauory in pe tastynge, and reuells of water faire & clere. Aghte dayes contenuelly pay saw na son. And at pe viij days end pay come to pe fote of a mountayne whare all pe Oste thurgh a wikked thikk ayer ware so gretley disessed pat pay ware in poynte to hafe bene choked pare-offe. And when pay come a-bown on pe mountayne, pay
fande pe ayer mare sotell, and pe lighte of pe day mare clere. And pus pay ware wendand vpwarde, on pis Mountayne Elleuen, xj, days wit grete trauaile. And when pay come to pe

* Four lines with red capital F and
small f beside.

* Four lines with red capital T and

a dragon within, and the head of a dragon
above with sting out.

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