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purgations et trop plus grandes que dune bien forte
medicine que len prend pour medichiner Une aultre
fontaine a devers orient dont len fait feu gregoiz avec
aultres mestions que len y met lequel feu quant il est
espris est si chault que len ne le poeut estaindre deaue
fors daisil dorine ou de sablon tant seulement. Les sa
rasins vendent celle eaue moult chierement plus que
len ne fait bon vin. Aultres fontaines sourdent en
moult daultres lieux qui guerissent du mal des yeulx
et de plente de plaies. Aultres fontaines sont qui a
lomme rendent sa memore. aultres oublianche. aul
tres qui refrainguent luxure. aultres qui lengressent
et esmeuvent. aultres qui font enfans porter aux fem
mes qui lunz nen ont. Et aultres qui les font brehai
gnes si quelles nen poevent nulz porter Il est aulcuns
fleuves qui font les brebis noires. et daultres en est qui
les font aussi blanches comme liz. Daultre part sont
moult destangs ou nulle rien qui soit ne poet na
gier ne homme ne chien ne aultre beste que tantost
ne sen aylle au fons. Il en est daultres ou nulle rien
ne poeut effondrer. Ainchois flote continuellement

purgatives from it, much stronger than even a very potent
medicine that one takes as a cure. There is another
fountain toward the east that is used to make Greek fire, together
with other ingredients that are added to it. Once lit, this fire
is so hot that it cannot be extinguished by water
but only by vinegar, urine, or sand. The Saracens
sell this water at a very high price, higher than the
price of good wine. Other fountains rise in
many other places that heal eye illnesses and many
wounds. There are some fountains that cause people
to remember, and others that cause them to forget,
some that hold people back from lust and others
that compel and urge them on in it. Some cause women
who have no children to conceive, and others that cause
women to become barren if they do not want children.
There are some that cause sheep to be black, and others
that make them lily-white. Elsewhere there are
many swamps where nothing at all can swim, neither
man nor hound nor other beast, for if they do they will
sink to the bottom. And there are others where nothing
can sink, but rather float continually

purgations et trop plus grandes que dune bien forte
medicine que len prend pour medichiner Une aultre
fontaine a devers orient dont len fait feu gregoiz avec
aultres mestions que len y met lequel feu quant il est
espris est si chault que len ne le poeut estaindre deaue
fors daisil dorine ou de sablon tant seulement. Les sa
rasins vendent celle eaue moult chierement plus que
len ne fait bon vin. Aultres fontaines sourdent en
moult daultres lieux qui guerissent du mal des yeulx
et de plente de plaies. Aultres fontaines sont qui a
lomme rendent sa memore. aultres oublianche. aul
tres qui refrainguent luxure. aultres qui lengressent
et esmeuvent. aultres qui font enfans porter aux fem
mes qui lunz nen ont. Et aultres qui les font brehai
gnes si quelles nen poevent nulz porter Il est aulcuns
fleuves qui font les brebis noires. et daultres en est qui
les font aussi blanches comme liz. Daultre part sont
moult destangs ou nulle rien qui soit ne poet na
gier ne homme ne chien ne aultre beste que tantost
ne sen aylle au fons. Il en est daultres ou nulle rien
ne poeut effondrer. Ainchois flote continuellement

purgatives from it, much more powerful than even a very strong
medicine that one takes as a cure. There is another
fountain toward the east from which is made Greek fire
and other mixtures that are put into it. This fire, once
it is lit, is so hot that it cannot be extinguished by water
but only by vinegar, urine, or sand. The Saracens
sell this water at a very high price, higher than the
price of good wine. Other fountains rise in
many other places that heal eye illnesses and many
of wounds. There are some fountains that cause men
to remember, and others that cause him to forget,
some that hold people back from lust and others
that compel and urge them on in it. Some cause women
who have no children to conceive, and others that cause
women to become barren if they do not want children.
There are some that cause sheep to be black, and others
that make them lily-white. Elsewhere there are
many swamps where nothing at all can swim, neither
man nor hound nor other beast, for if they do they will
sink to the bottom. And there are others where nothing
can sink, but rather float continually